Brooklynites are burning about the scheme to allow National Grid and the Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Company (TRANSCO) to install a natural gas pipeline beneath the nation’s oldest – and one of its largest – urban national parks, including some of New York City's nicest beaches.
Companies and government have been developing the project clandestinely for years, reports Sheepshead Bites.
A coalition has just formed to fight the harebrained scheme and NYC Audubon has put up a call for citizens to come down to Jacob Riis Saturday (tomorrow, August 4) to rally from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
The plan is to connect a primary natural gas artery in the Atlantic, just off the coast of the Rockaways, to a National Grid hub in Brooklyn. The pipe will go under the Rockaways, across the Rockaway inlet and underneath Floyd Bennett Field.
The bizarre plan flies in the face of a new management agreement between the federal government and New York City.
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