AIM Pipeline

Challenge To AIM Pipeline Approval Goes To DC Circuit Court

October 20, 2017 SAPE, www.popularresistance.org Resist! AIM Pipeline, FERC, Justice Sys, Oil and Gas

By Stop the Algonquin Pipeline Expansion. Washington, D.C.- Two and half years after asking the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to reverse its decision to permit construction of the “Algonquin” Pipeline Expansion, residents are finally getting their day in court. Ellen Weininger from Westchester County, New York made the trip to DC Circuit Court for oral arguments Thursday. "From its inception Spectra's massive Algonquin pipeline expansion violated federal law to avoid a full review of its cumulative impacts. While the courts finally hear oral arguments on the case today in D.C., tens of millions of people in New York and across New England, living and working in the pipeline's path, continue to remain in harm's way."

Lockdown At Spectra AIM Construction Site At Hudson River Crossing

December 9, 2016 Anne Meador, www.dcmediagroup.us Resist! AIM Pipeline, Pipelines, Protests

By Anne Meador for DC Media Group - Spectra commenced destruction after the 12 were taken and now is currently hammering IN the pipeline (as opposed to pulling it through) according to video of a neighbor in Verplanck which we think sounds like they are having problems. Please pray their problems continue. The 12 are now being transferred to an arraignment and the District Attorney is asking for $50,000 bail for each person. We will keep you posted after this special nighttime arraignment, which is going to be the same judge that just found the Montrose9 guilty. Please, if you are in the area, meet us at the courthouse at 1 Heady St in Cortlandt Manor, NY.

Protesters Inside Pipeline Stop Spectra For 16 Hours

October 11, 2016 Resist Spectra Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! AIM Pipeline, Pipelines, Spectra

By Staff for Resist Spectra. At about 7 AM on October 10th, Indigenous People's Day, four water protectors crawled inside lengths of pipeline along the Hudson River to stop Spectra Energy from dragging its 42-inch diameter, high pressure, fracked-methane gas pipeline under the Hudson River alongside the aging and failing Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant. The protectors stayed inside the pipeline for more 16 hours. They continued to sustain the occupation until after 11:00 PM when they were threatened by police with the use of tactical force to be removed and promised only minimal charges for the protest if they voluntarily left. Two support people were also arrested on site and charged with criminal trespass; a third support person was arrested on public property merely on suspicion of illegal activity by association

New Yorkers Erect Giant Tripod In Front Of AIM Pipeline Site

June 14, 2016 www.insideclimatenews.org Resist! AIM Pipeline, New York (NY), Pipelines

By Nancy Vann for Resist AIM - New Yorkers engage in a daring, peaceful, civil disobedience to stop Spectra’s continuing pipeline construction Peekskill, NY—As part of an escalating peaceful resistance campaign, concerned New Yorkers engineered a dramatic and elaborate protest against pipeline construction early this morning. A team erected a 20- foot-tripod in the path of construction equipment, and then a woman who grew up in Croton climbed up and sat at the top, thereby effectively halting construction. Additionally, two people locked to the base of the tripod. A total of six people have been arrested and taken to the Peekskill Police Station.

Activists Lock Down On Pipeline Path, Need Support

May 25, 2016 Resist AIM, www.popularresistance.org Resist! AIM Pipeline, Climate Change, Oil and Gas, Spectra

By Tina Volz-Bongar for Resist AIM. Peekskill, NY - Just four days after 21 people were arrested for peacefully blockading the entrance to a Spectra Algonquin Incremental Market (AIM) Pipeline work site, two people courageously locked themselves into a renewable-energy powered, 20-ft recycled shipping-container home at the work site, directly on the pipeline route. They plan to stay inside the container blockade for as long as possible. The AIM Pipeline is a 42-inch, high pressure, fracked gas pipeline, which if completed will run through residential communities and within 105 feet of critical Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant safety facilities. The fully self-contained home is a strong symbol of both resilience and resistance: It is intended to halt construction of the dangerous AIM Pipeline and to represent the safe alternative living situation we need to move towards to fight climate change and to halt our dependence on fossil fuel, which drives the buildout of dangerous infrastructure like the AIM Pipeline.

Algonquin Pipeline Endangers Communities Of Color

April 10, 2016 Linda Snider, www.blackwestchester.com Resist! AIM Pipeline, Environment, Environmental racism, health

By Linda Snider for Black Westchester. Westchester, NY - In November, 2015, tree cutters and huge flatbed trucks began rolling through northern Westchester communities—Peekskill, Montrose, Cortlandt. These communities were soon to be changed—and not for the better. The tree cutters are contracted by Spectra Energy, a billion-dollar Texas-based pipeline company. Their mission: to clear ground for the Algonquin Incremental Market Pipeline (AIM), a project that would expand a pipeline carrying fracked gas from Pennsylvania through northern Westchester and on to Boston. One of the numerous problems: this huge pipeline will carry methane (“natural gas”) within a few hundred feet of the Indian Point nuclear facility.

Blocking Access To Halt Construction Of Spectra’s AIM Gas Pipeline

March 24, 2016 Courtney Williams, www.resistaim.wordpress.com Resist! AIM Pipeline, Protests, Spectra

By Courtney Williams for Resist AIM - Buchanan, NY - Today at 6:30 AM, thirty people took action to stop the AIM pipeline from being built in Westchester by blocking access to two of Spectra Energy's construction areas for a total of three hours. Spectra Energy's Algonquin Incremental Market (AIM) project would involve drilling underneath the Hudson River in Verplanck, NY, immediately south of Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant. The group of thirty defenders began by standing at both entrances to a Bleakley Avenue construction site preventing access to the proposed site of a new pigging station...

ResistAIM Defenders Form Human Chain To Halt Drilling

March 3, 2016 ResistAIM, www.popularresistance.org Resist! AIM Pipeline, Climate Change, Democracy, Fossil Fuels

By ResistAIM. Buchanan, NY 02-29-16 - Today at 6 AM, 26 people took action to stop the AIM pipeline from being built in Westchester and Rockland by blocking access for over an hour to Spectra Energy's staging area for horizontal drilling under the Hudson River. Spectra Energy's Algonquin Incremental Market (AIM) project would involve drilling underneath the Hudson River in Verplanck, immediately south of Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant. The new high-pressure, 42-inch diameter pipeline would run within 10 5 feet of critical infrastructure for Indian Point , and would expose local communities to toxic emissions from compressor stations along the pipeline path. The group of activists and residents chose the site because it highlights the danger of the proposed pipeline, running underneath the Hudson River and adjacent to the troubled Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant.

Activists Halt Drilling For AIM Pipeline

March 1, 2016 Erik Mc Gregor, www.facebook.com Resist! AIM Pipeline, Drilling, Protests

By Erik Mc Gregor for ResistAIM Defenders - 11 arrests as Activists halt drilling for AIM Pipeline near Indian Point. ResistAIM Defenders chain themselves to Access Gate to Halt Hudson River Drilling for AIM Pipeline. Drilling at the Verplanck site is on-ongoing for Spectra’s new AIM Pipeline. Today at 6 AM, 26 people took action to stop the AIM pipeline from being built in Westchester and Rockland by blocking access for over an hour to Spectra Energy's staging area for horizontal drilling under the Hudson River.

NYers Say No To Spectra Pipeline, Homeowner Protest, Tree Sit & More

November 20, 2015 Resist! AIM Pipeline, Pipelines, Spectra

Local resident Nancy Vann stopped clearcutting through the Reynolds Hills area today by standing within 300 feet of where construction crews were scheduled to begin clearing trees to make way for the AIM pipeline, a high-pressure 42 inch-diameter gas pipeline being built without the permission of the community. She was joined by Peekskill Councilmember Kathleen Talbot, who stood nearby to show support. By standing within 300 feet of the clearcutting site, worker crews cannot proceed without violating their own safety guidelines. Vann says that she is taking a stand for the safety of the whole region. "They claim to be concerned about my safety - but what about the safety of the 20 million people at risk from a pipeline accident at Indian Point? Or the thousands at risk from asthma and other health problems in this environmental justice community?" Spectra Energy's Algonquin Incremental Market (AIM) project would involve building a high-pressure 42-inch diameter pipeline within 100 feet of critical structures of Indian Point and would expose local communities to toxic emissions from compressor stations along the pipeline path. Her protests were joinedby others with blockade's, tree-sits and more.

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