WBUR - Enough Is Enough. It's Time To Shut Down The Weymouth Compressor

Caren Solomon and Phil Landrigan wrote a commentary piece on the compressor station that was published on WBUR today. You can read the full article here.

Excerpt: “In the airline industry, near-misses are taken very seriously. They trigger root-cause investigations. They can result in changes to procedures, suspensions of pilots, grounding of aircraft and steep penalties. These common-sense interventions can result in inconvenience and lost income, but they prevent crashes and save lives.

But this is not the way things work at the natural gas compressor station in North Weymouth. This facility, located 9 miles from downtown Boston, opened last September. It receives fracked gas via pipelines from Pennsylvania and West Virginia and is designed to pressurize the gas to more than 1,000 pounds per square inch (psi) and push it onward.” (WBUR)

Dr. Philip Landrigan, a world renown epidemiologist and pediatrician, is the founding director of Boston College's Global Public Health Program and the Global Pollution Observatory. He was one of our expert witnesses in the Air Quality case before the DEP. Sadly, Jane Rothschild took the word of a discredited white- coat for hire-- we referred to him as Voldemort-- over the word of Dr. Landrigan.

Dr. Caren Solomon is an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School, the Deputy Editor of The New England Journal of Medicine, and an Associate Physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital.

But, you know, what could these two doctors know that Enbridge can't buy with the the testimony of a sleaze that was publically admonished by the Court for saying smoking doesn't cause lung cancer?