{"id":58203,"date":"2014-10-01T13:00:36","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T17:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=58203"},"modified":"2014-09-29T19:19:59","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T23:19:59","slug":"ferc-scoping-hearing-oct-8-in-georgetown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=58203","title":{"rendered":"FERC Scoping Hearing Oct. 8 in Georgetown"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n<\/a>To the Editor:<\/p>\n

(Georgetown, NY \u2013 Oct. 2014) Dominion Transmission Inc. has proposed a new natural gas compressor station the Madison County town of Georgetown and hamlet of Sheds. A compressor is needed to increase the pressure to move more gas through the existing pipeline. It is very important that landowners, local officials and others interested in the project attend the FERC scoping hearing on\u00a0Wednesday Oct. 8 at 7:30 p.m.\u00a0at the Georgetown Town Hall.<\/p>\n

Awareness is finally growing in New York about these projects. This compressor project should be considered a segment of a massive build-out of fracked gas infrastructure in the Northeast. Everyone should demand that FERC make critical safety information available.<\/p>\n

The pipeline that will be carrying this gas is about 50+\/- yrs. old, has it been maintained? What is the safety and compliance record of the operator? As the compressor will be for in part for fracked gas, will FERC consider impacts such as possible water contamination and radon gas?\u00a0\u00a0Will Health impacts be considered or loss in property values?<\/p>\n

We are now on the public comment period on the Environmental Assessment (EA), which ends on\u00a0Oct. 20, 2014.\u00a0\u00a0Even if you cannot attend the meeting it is critical that all of your concerns be made during the comment period. You can use FERC’s eComment to make a quick comment on the docket without registration:\u00a0\u00a0http:\/\/www.ferc.gov\/docs-filing\/ecomment.asp<\/a><\/p>\n

We are being asked to believe, this station has \u201cnothing to do with more drilling.\u201d However, based upon Dominion\u2019s own brochure I\u2019m convinced that the purpose of a new compressor station is to encourage drilling\/fracking in our communities (in the future) and other places in order to ship more gas overseas. There will be no stopping the transport and use of fracked gas once the infrastructure build-out happens.<\/p>\n

Compressors are necessary to clean, treat, and pressurize natural gas in order to deliver it through pipelines.\u00a0However, emissions released from gas compressor have been shown to increase the risk respiratory & cardiovascular diseases; and chemicals known as Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) that include benzene & toluene, can put people at risk of developing leukemia, kidney & neurological diseases.<\/p>\n

Climate change is real; air, water and land pollution are real.\u00a0\u00a0More compressors, pipelines and fracking are not the solution to our energy needs.\u00a0\u00a0New York offers several tax incentives to encourage solar energy in residential areas; companies specializing in the production of renewable energy products and technologies such as solar panels and wind turbines are eligible for 10 years of tax freedom under Governor Cuomo\u2019s new business program, START-UP NY.\u00a0\u00a0Infrastructure build-out for fracked gas should not be allowed in the Empire State.<\/p>\n

Cheryl Cary<\/strong><\/p>\n

Canastota<\/strong><\/p>\n

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To the Editor: (Georgetown, NY \u2013 Oct. 2014) Dominion Transmission Inc. has proposed a new natural gas compressor station the Madison County town of Georgetown and hamlet of Sheds. A compressor is needed to increase the pressure to move more gas through the existing pipeline. It is very important that landowners, local officials and others […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-f8L","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}