New York’s Potential Disaster Scenario
By James Donahue
We are beginning to wonder if our society has reached a point of overpopulation where it has triggered an instinct for social suicide. Case-in-point . . . there is a major high pressure gas line construction project going on in New York state that will pass within 150 feet of the controversial Indian Point nuclear power plant and two known fault lines.
This 42-inch high pressure gas line was just approved by the Federal Energy Commission in spite of intense protests by environmentalists and local residents who perceived the potential of a disaster that could literally wipe out all of New York City and the broad heavily populated areas surrounding it.
The project, which is already underway, was reportedly approved without an environmental assessment, even though the danger is so evident that such an assessment shouldn’t have been needed.
Explosions at high pressure gas lines that spring leaks have been common all over the nation. Should one occur near the Indian Point plant, which already has a troublesome record for its own toxic gas and water leaks and emergency shut-downs, experts predict a disaster worse than Fukushima.
That both the power plant and the gas line will be near the Ramapo and Stamford faults, and possibly subject to an unexpected earthquake and land shift, only adds to the stupidity of constructing either of these dangerous facilities in that neighborhood.
The risk would affect an estimated 20 million people. It could leave the entire New York area and property extending into portions of Connecticut and New Jersey an uninhabitable nuclear wasteland for years.
The gas line, dubbed the Algonquin Incremental Market (AIM) pipeline, will be carrying fracked natural methane gas from the Marcellus Shale formation under the state of New York and adjacent states north over the Canadian border, where it will be shipped to overseas markets. Methane gas is known to be extremely toxic and is highly explosive.
The pipe is 42 inches in diameter, the largest size the law allows. It is taking a direct and extremely dangerous route from Stony Point in Rockland County, under the Hudson River into Westchester County, New York. There it will intersect two proposed mega voltage power lines located 150 feet from the Indian Point power plant and 40 years of spent nuclear fuel rods in storage. All of this is near the two fault lines.
From there the pipeline will continue through Westchester and Putnam Counties through Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
Gas pipeline ruptures are found to be the more common cause of gas explosions. In 2015 the National Transportation Safety Board published a study documenting that gas accidents in highly populated areas have been on the increase.
The Indian Point plant is one of the oldest nuclear facilities of its kind in the nation. It went on line in 1962. Its two reactors generate power for homes throughout New York City and Westchester County. The plant is located just 30 miles north of Manhattan Island and New York City, one of the most densely populated urban areas in the world.
So why would the Federal Energy Department approve the construction of a high pressure gas line in an already potential volatile area like that?
We suspect it has a lot to do with political pressure. And that, we all know, is linked directly to the most evil god of the people . . . money.
By James Donahue
We are beginning to wonder if our society has reached a point of overpopulation where it has triggered an instinct for social suicide. Case-in-point . . . there is a major high pressure gas line construction project going on in New York state that will pass within 150 feet of the controversial Indian Point nuclear power plant and two known fault lines.
This 42-inch high pressure gas line was just approved by the Federal Energy Commission in spite of intense protests by environmentalists and local residents who perceived the potential of a disaster that could literally wipe out all of New York City and the broad heavily populated areas surrounding it.
The project, which is already underway, was reportedly approved without an environmental assessment, even though the danger is so evident that such an assessment shouldn’t have been needed.
Explosions at high pressure gas lines that spring leaks have been common all over the nation. Should one occur near the Indian Point plant, which already has a troublesome record for its own toxic gas and water leaks and emergency shut-downs, experts predict a disaster worse than Fukushima.
That both the power plant and the gas line will be near the Ramapo and Stamford faults, and possibly subject to an unexpected earthquake and land shift, only adds to the stupidity of constructing either of these dangerous facilities in that neighborhood.
The risk would affect an estimated 20 million people. It could leave the entire New York area and property extending into portions of Connecticut and New Jersey an uninhabitable nuclear wasteland for years.
The gas line, dubbed the Algonquin Incremental Market (AIM) pipeline, will be carrying fracked natural methane gas from the Marcellus Shale formation under the state of New York and adjacent states north over the Canadian border, where it will be shipped to overseas markets. Methane gas is known to be extremely toxic and is highly explosive.
The pipe is 42 inches in diameter, the largest size the law allows. It is taking a direct and extremely dangerous route from Stony Point in Rockland County, under the Hudson River into Westchester County, New York. There it will intersect two proposed mega voltage power lines located 150 feet from the Indian Point power plant and 40 years of spent nuclear fuel rods in storage. All of this is near the two fault lines.
From there the pipeline will continue through Westchester and Putnam Counties through Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
Gas pipeline ruptures are found to be the more common cause of gas explosions. In 2015 the National Transportation Safety Board published a study documenting that gas accidents in highly populated areas have been on the increase.
The Indian Point plant is one of the oldest nuclear facilities of its kind in the nation. It went on line in 1962. Its two reactors generate power for homes throughout New York City and Westchester County. The plant is located just 30 miles north of Manhattan Island and New York City, one of the most densely populated urban areas in the world.
So why would the Federal Energy Department approve the construction of a high pressure gas line in an already potential volatile area like that?
We suspect it has a lot to do with political pressure. And that, we all know, is linked directly to the most evil god of the people . . . money.