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Manifestantes en Brooklyn rechazan un oleoducto que transportaría gas extraído mediante fracking
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National Grid Is Building A Natural Gas Pipeline Through North Brooklyn But Do We Need It?
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Saving the planet starts with saving the communities the fossil fuel industry tends to trample.
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On a
chilly December morning, Gabriel Jamison stood in front of a construction site
in Brownsville, Brooklyn, with a sign and a megaphone. “National Grid has the
nerve to sit there and come into a low-income neighborhood,” Jamison said, as
National Grid employees continued to work in the background. “We’re not going
to tolerate that.” Surrounded by a handful of other demonstrators, Jamison was
protesting the expansion of a fracking pipeline by National Grid, an energy
company that serves New York, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. Within two hours, they could call the
was born and raised.
Residents in these neighborhoods face inordinate environmental health burdens. In 2012, Bushwick had more than twice as many avoidable asthma hospitalizations than Brooklyn did as a whole, according to a city report. Brownsville, where 78% of residents are Black, has the highest adult asthma rates in New York City.
“There’s always been disinvestment in our communities,” Rodriguez says. “This is just gonna make it worse.”
Street closures in Bushwick during National Grid’s North Brooklyn pipeline phase four construction in Brooklyn. Photograph: Erik McGregor/Getty Images Since October, Rodriguez has participated in a series of protests against the project, led by the No North Brooklyn Pipeline Coalition and Frack Outta Brooklyn. The movement received a flurry of media attention earlier this year, when activists effectively shut down construction on the pipeline by chaining themselves to the site, resulting in the arrest of five protesters.
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National Grid workers packed up and went home for the day after two hours of protesters blocking their construction on Junius Street. (Courtesy of Erik McGregor)
BROOKLYN, NY Protesters of the controversial North Brooklyn Pipeline blocked construction in Brownsville this week, which continued despite calls from officials to withdraw the project.
Residents of Brownsville gathered at National Grid s construction site on Junius Street, spreading themselves across the dug up roadway with signs and chants through a megaphone. After two hours of protest, National Grid workers packed up and went home for the day, according to the activists.
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