Thursday, April 21, 2016
Some Good News
Just as we were discussing the Northeast Direct Pipeline yesterday, the plan was suspended. The company didn't cite citizen resistance as the reason, of course, though they had earlier conceded that they had never experienced such significant pushback as they did in Berkshire County. Here's the story in the Berkshire Eagle: http://www.berkshireeagle.com/local/ci_29792079/kinder-morgan-suspends-northeast-energy-direct-project
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Community pushback created some interesting problems during the planning for this pipeline. It was originally slated to go through Townsend, MA, a small town near where I grew up. Townsend has some great community organizers, though, and they eventually put up enough resistance that Kinder Morgan diverted the plans through Mason, NH, where my Dad lives. Mason is tiny, with a population of just over 1,000, and could not organize the sort of resistance that Townsend (still small with a population of 9,000, but a bit more wealthy) did. I'm not sure the "not in my back yard" mentality is very helpful; even if you're diverting the pipeline from your own city, you're not fighting the larger problem, and the pipeline will still go through someone else's back yard. Although ultimately, Kinder Morgan did pull the project, so perhaps community pushback was more fruitful than I anticipated.
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