The decision to greenlight the underwater fracked gas pipeline puts New Yorkers’ health, safety, and environment at risk.
Today, Environmental Advocates NY issued the following statement from Deputy Executive Director Katherine Nadeau in response to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s approval of the Northeast Supply Enhancement (NESE) pipeline project:
“Today’s decision by the DEC is a devastating failure to protect New Yorkers from a dangerous and wrongheaded proposal. By approving the NESE fracked gas pipeline, the DEC is discarding its own previous findings — required by state law and bolstered by science — that this project poses serious risks for our water, our marine life, and our health and safety.
“Just two weeks after a court ruled the Governor violated the law by not implementing the Climate Act, today she has once again ignored the law in approving this costly pipeline project. In the same month that Time Magazine named the Governor one of the world’s 100 most influential climate leaders, and state representatives are gathering in Brazil to advance international climate action, the Governor’s actions are speaking louder than her words. Today’s decision seems to be more responsive to demands from President Trump than the concerns of New Yorkers.
“Governor Hochul has a responsibility to lead on climate, not double down on fossil fuel projects that will leave ordinary New Yorkers paying the price for generations. Each new pipeline takes us backward, and locks us into decades of fossil fuel dependence that we can’t afford.”
