7, but asked National Grid to extend the deadline by three months just about a week before the decision was due, citing an ongoing effort to read and respond to public comments.ĭays before asking to extend the deadline, DEC asked National Grid to supply an updated CLCPA analysis.
The DEC was most recently supposed to make a decision on the permit by Feb. Two federal agencies, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Transportation, opened investigations into the project after a coalition of community groups lodged a civil complaint accusing National Grid and the DEC of violating civil rights laws. The activists also demanded that the DEC shut down the completed parts of the North Brooklyn Pipeline, also known as the Metropolitan Natural Gas Reliability Project, a natural gas pipeline that snakes through the borough from Brownsville to Greenpoint. National Grid did not immediately provide comment on the protest.Ĭoalition members dressed in pink and white scrub suits laid down in formation in front of DEC’s Long Island City headquarters, spelling out “NO LNG” with their bodies, then stood in front of the building’s doors with banners and handed out flyers to employees walking into the building for the day.
In 2022 delay is denial and it costs lives.” “We once again remind the DEC and Governor that disadvantaged communities are living next to this polluting fracked gas facility today. “ Deny the permit, don’t delay! Environmental justice communities have been poisoned by the fossil fuel industry for decades in North Brooklyn,” said the No North Brooklyn Pipeline Coalition, in a statement.
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