UPRISE RI - Weymouth and Quincy communities assaulted by Enbridge’s reckless construction practices

The Weymouth compressor station isn’t a singular issue; it is connected to many other fights. People all over the world are fighting the fossil fuel infrastructure projects, in an effort to protect people and the planet from further climate destruction. Peter Nightingale, a Rhode Island resident and theoretical physicist, discusses the connection between the Weymouth compressor and fracked-gas projects in RI. It’s all connected.

You can read his article below.

UPRISE RI - Weymouth and Quincy communities assaulted by Enbridge’s reckless construction practices (link)

Excerpt: “Construction of the Weymouth compressor station started after five years of protests and in despite numerous pending court appeals. To allow construction to start under these circumstances is standard procedure of FERC. Indeed the same happened in 2015 when Spectra Energy (since then taken over by Enbridge) expanded the compressor station on Wallum Road in Burrillville. Construction in both locations is part of Enbridge’s project to transport fracked gas from the Marcellus Shale in Pennsylvania via Canada to the world market.

The Burrillville buildout was part of the AIM Project, supported both by Rhode Island Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse (see item 1 here) and by the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (see item 3 here.) The Weymouth compressor station is part of the Atlantic Bridge Project. The Massachusetts project Senators Warren and Markey oppose the project. Nevertheless, both senators — as did Senators Reed and Whitehouse — voted for the Energy Policy Modernization Act of 2015, part of which was to expedite the permitting process for natural gas exports. (There has not yet been a vote on the recent European Energy Security and Diversification Act of 2019 designed to replace Russian gas by American fracked gas in the Europe.)” (Peter Nightingale)