Stop The Iroquois Pipeline Expansion

The “Iroquois Pipeline Company” wants to drastically increase the amount of gas they push through their 37-year-old, 414-mile fossil gas pipeline running from the Canadian border to Long Island and NYC. They are seeking a permit from the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) to double the size of four toxic and noisy gas compressor stations that have long polluted disadvantaged, working-class communities in Dover and Athens, NY.

The proposed expanded pipeline is unnecessary and harmful to New Yorkers’ health and our environment. There is no need for this additional gas. Federal, state and local mandates require more buildings and homes ...

The “Iroquois Pipeline Company” wants to drastically increase the amount of gas they push through their 37-year-old, 414-mile fossil gas pipeline running from the Canadian border to Long Island and NYC. They are seeking a permit from the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) to double the size of four toxic and noisy gas compressor stations that have long polluted disadvantaged, working-class communities in Dover and Athens, NY.

The proposed expanded pipeline is unnecessary and harmful to New Yorkers’ health and our environment. There is no need for this additional gas. Federal, state and local mandates require more buildings and homes to switch to electric heating and cooking.

It is unsafe and threatens public safety. Biologist Sandra Steingraber, PhD, co-founder of Concerned Health Professionals NY, states that “overwhelming scientific evidence shows that compressor stations and high-pressure gas pipelines are accident-prone pieces of industrial machinery that can explode, freeze, corrode, break, and leak and represent acute threats to public safety in the communities where they are located.

The compressor stations are notorious air polluters. Our research shows that emissions from compressor stations contain 39 human carcinogens, including benzene and formaldehyde, at levels high enough to raise cancer risks for nearby residents.”

The community is already overburdened. The residents of Dover and Athens already suffer from the toxic, smog-producing, and noisy compressor stations that run 24/7. If expanded, the stations would be even more noisy and toxic, exposing residents to greater health risks, all for gas that their fellow New Yorkers don’t need or want.

We must tell New York State that enough is enough and demand a stop to fossil fuel expansion NOW. We only have until April 29th to send a strong message.

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Don't Expand the Iroquois Pipeline

We only have until April 29, 2024 to weigh in on the dirty and dangerous Iroquois Pipeline's air permit application. If the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) approves the permit, the compressor station will more than double in size. Submit your comment today to say that New Yorkers don’t want or need more pipeline infrastructure to continue our reliance on dirty fossil fuels - especially not at the cost of vulnerable communities’ health and well-being.

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As a Catskill Mountainkeeper Supporter, I urge you to reject the “Iroquois Pipeline Company’s” request to expand its delivery of gas to New York City and Long Island (Iroquois Enhancement by Compression Project (ExC Project). Please support our right to clean air and water, and a healthful environment and help New York transition away from unhealthy and dangerous fossil fuels now.

This proposed project would double the amount of gas pushed through compressor stations located in Dover and Athens, NY, and increase noise and air pollution. These are working-class, historically disadvantaged communities that already suffer the brunt of environmental and health harm from the existing pipeline and compressor stations, along with other major sources of pollution.

New Yorkers broadly support a shift away from fossil fuels and forbidding the placement of additional burdens on communities like Dover and Athens. DPS’ claim that there is a “need” for more gas is flawed and unsupported, and fails to consider viable and available alternative measures before declaring that there is a need to add more pollution to our neighbors’ communities.

The DPS analysis ignores major efforts at State and City levels to lower the “needed” amount of gas. For example, New York City’s Local Law 97 has been finalized, and will imminently shift buildings’ energy use away from fossil fuels. Moreover, major legislation including the NY HEAT Act is currently being considered by the Governor and Legislature, and has already been passed by the NYS Senate, which would speed the transition to renewable energy statewide. Permitting the expansion project would violate the laws our State has enacted to combat climate change, will fail to lower greenhouse gas emissions, and fail to protect disadvantaged communities.

The expansion request should be rejected. Enough is enough! We must stop our reliance on fossil fuels NOW. It’s the right thing to do.

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