WHITE PLAINS – A coalition of 21 organizations has filed a brief in the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia seeking to overturn the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s March 2015 approval of Spectra Energy’s Algonquin Incremental Markets (AIM) pipeline project.
Construction is moving forward on the project that will see over 2,100 feet of the pipeline running through property that is part of the Indian Point power plant.
The brief challenges the approval of installing the pipeline a little
over 100 feet from “critical safety structures” at Indian
Point. The groups maintain the commission relied on findings by Entergy
Nuclear Operations, owner of Indian Point, and the NRC, neither of which
has expertise in pipeline safety. Entergy and the NRC have concluded the
AIM project would not impact safety at Indian Point.
Organizations signing onto the brief include Riverkeeper, Sierra Club Lower Hudson, Food & Water Watch NY, Stop the Algonquin Pipeline Expansion, and Reynolds Hill, Inc.
BREAKING: Teenager shot in Poughkeepsie (VIDEO)
April 30, 2024
