Wed Dec 07, 2011 at 08:14:36 PM EST
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| With Spectra Energy acquiring key permits last week, the company's proposed pipeline - set to wind its hazardous path directly through the center of one of New Jersey and the U.S.' most densely populated areas - creeps closer to becoming reality. That's despite opposition from basically everyone in Jersey City. (Get the backstory here and here.)
And as The Jersey Journal reports, it's gotten to the point that Mayor Jeremiah Healy is now reaching out to President Obama:
"The proposed pipeline would transport an unprecedented, potentially disastrous quantity of gas through the heart of Jersey City - traversing everything from low-income neighborhoods to high-rise communities to the nationally critical financial district known as 'Wall Street West' ...On behalf of Jersey City, its quarter million residents, its ever-burgeoning development, its thriving, multi-billion dollar economic sectors, and its precious and diverse ecosystems, we ask you to put a stop to the New Jersey-New York Expansion Project's pipeline plans."
Soaring! And hey, maybe the president will step in! And double hey, what's Governor Christie got to say about this? Why isn't he swooping in to grab a choice opportunity to defend his state?
Good question. If you're in Iowa or Massachusetts or whatnot, do us all a favor and ask him. |
| KendalJames :: No Gas Pipeline JC: "Dear Mr. President" Edition (or, "Where's Chris Christie?") |
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