How the AIM Pipeline Expansion Will Affect New York

The Leonard Lopate Show | Mar 4, 2016

Spectra Energy's proposed AIM (Algonquin Incremental Market) pipeline expansion poses significant environmental, health and safety risks to residents in New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts. Julia WalshCampaign Director for Frack Action, and Courtney Williams, a molecular biologist directly affected by the pipeline, talk about the expansion, and Spectra's plan to install a massive high pressure pipeline 1500 feet from the Indian Point nuclear plant. For more information, read the National Transportation Safety Board's pipeline accident reports.

Events: On Monday, March 14th at 6 p.m. there will be an exclusive screening of Josh Fox’s “How to let go of the World (and love all the things climate can’t change)” at Manhattanville College in Purchase, NY.  Courtney Williams will be participating in a Q&A Panel with Josh Fox, afterwards. Click here for more information.

On Wednesday, March 16th at 7 p.m., there will be a screening of John Bowermaster’s “Dear President Obama” at the Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville, NY.  It will be followed by a Q&A panel with Bowermaster, including Courtney Williams.  For more information, visit their website

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