The DEC has not yet issued a final permit for the LNG vaporizer project, which also requires approval from the city. "On its face, the application significantly increases the gas vaporization and send-out capacity of the facility and is likely to adversely impact local air quality, which is already poor." "DEC issued a negative declaration despite the fact that the project, which sits in a potential environmental justice area, would involve significant increases in potential air emissions from the Greenpoint facility and create or exacerbate multiple risks to public health," wrote the attorneys for the petitioners, the Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic Inc. However, the petitioners, which have long opposed any effort to site new fossil fuel infrastructure in New York City, disputed the DEC finding. 2, 2020, and again March 3, finding that the project would have no significant environmental impact.Ī coalition of environmental groups, including the Sane Energy Project, has sought to disrupt National Grid's fossil fuel infrastructure projects in New York City. According to the petition, DEC issued a so-called negative declaration Nov. The petitioners filed the lawsuit with the Supreme Court of the State of New York in Queens County.Īdding two new vaporizers and replacing a pair of aging vaporizers, one of which is inoperable, is part of National Grid's plan to close an anticipated supply gap in its New York City service territory in the coming years. and Sane Energy Project alleged that the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, or DEC, failed to take into account environmental justice protections and state climate law in considering the Brooklyn Union Gas Co.'s application to build two new LNG vaporizers at its existing Greenpoint facility in Brooklyn. In a lawsuit filed March 18, the Cooper Park Resident Council Inc. A community group and environmentalists sued National Grid USA's downstate gas utility and New York's environmental regulator over an agency finding in the permitting process for new facilities at the company's LNG terminal in Brooklyn, N.Y.
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