FRRACS has been fighting to protect the community from Enbridge’s compressor station for nearly 7 years now, but the compressor station isn’t the only problem. For decades, the Fore River Basin has been a dumping ground for toxic waste, as it’s been home to nearly a dozen industrial facilities. Many people who live in the Basin have suffered various illnesses, and it’s quite possible that the cause of some of those illnesses has been the pollution from these facilities. Our board member, Judy Roberts, is one of those people. Judy grew up in Quincy Point and raised her son there too. To her shock, she was diagnosed with lung cancer despite living a very healthy lifestyle and never being a smoker. Judy is healthy today, but the diagnosis came as a shock and left many questions in her mind as to what may have caused it. Judy shared her powerful story with The Weather Channel, as well as our story to protect the Basin from pollution. You can read the full story — A Slight Increase in Risk.

The Marvelous Margaret strikes again! Margaret spoke with AG Healey today about the future of gas program in which FRRACS is a stakeholder. This nonsensical and poorly named program that is SUPPOSED to help shepherd the Commonwealth away from gas is actually being run by....wait for it....the gas industry!! Anyone is welcome to join in the fun of the monthly meetings. Go to https://thefutureofgas.com/involved for more information on that.

In the meantime, enjoy our Margaret at about 29:50 on this recording: https://www.wgbh.org/news/local-news/2021/10/29/boston-public-radio-full-show-10-29-21?fbclid=IwAR3nG-mlb2ouwixrqKkYPV-a8DeCGRP0VzqKIQ51Nt0_PYhBqhUGCbQqg4s

Put on your dancing shoes, Fore River Campers! Another nail in the coffin of Enbridge's big plans!! We are so happy for our Mi'kmaq sisters and brothers and are eternally grateful for the fight that they put up for over eight years. You can read more here.

Alice Arena joined Community Action Works for their “Stories from the Frontlines” podcast to talk about our multi-year campaign to stop the compressor station. You can listen to the podcast here.

Last week we attended another virtual meeting for the ongoing PIP (public involvement plan) process. This meeting is part of a series of meetings that were initiated years ago by the public’s concern about pollution at the site of the compressor station. Emily Hayes, a reporter at RTO Insider, wrote a recap on the meeting, which you can read below. Thank you, Emily!

Enbridge making lots of noise once again! Sorry, Campers, we just wanted you to know. According to Enbridge’s notice (available below), they will be operating an emergency generator on Sept. 30 for maintenance purposes. It may cause noise disruptions.

Our arguments against Enbridge and the DEP in the continued BACT analysis case were heard today in the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals. This is the continued case against Enbridge and their abettors at the MassDEP for their negligence in the use of a gas turbine instead of an electric motor drive for the compressor station.

You can listen to the audio of today’s oral arguments here, at about 1:11:35.

The next PIP meeting with TRC is Wednesday, September 15 from 7-9pm on Zoom.

More details from TRC here: https://www.trccompanies.com/insights/weymouth-pip/

A diagram of the big dig starting today at the Enbridge Compressor Station. Over the next 5 months, they will dig trenches all around the site uncovering all the gas pipes they put in. Even though operating since January, the pipes were not protected from corrosion from salt water. (WE TOLD THEM THIS WAS A BAD PLACE TO PUT A COMPRESSOR STATION!!!) They will install cathodes over every gas pipe after excavating them which will provide electronic protection from corrosion. The digging in the toxic coal ash (AGAIN!!) poses potential health problems to the nearby residents.

Enbridge gave us another laugh today. We found out that some residents of Braintree and Weymouth received a mailer from Enbridge, where they refer to themselves as a “neighbor”. Let us make this clear: Enbridge is not our neighbor. They dump their toxic facilities in communities all over — not a neighborly move.

Since yesterday afternoon, a group of activists have been peacefully sitting-in at Enbridge's office in Waltham, to demand that Enbridge cease construction activities on the Line 3 pipeline, and to demand that they shut down the Weymouth compressor, the West Roxbury Lateral Pipeline, and the Alton Gas project in Nova Scotia.

Andrea Honore joined the We Need Some Milk podcast to give a recap on the compressor fight. You can listen to the episode here — Gassy w/Andrea Honore.

In this interview, she recollects just some of the facts (read injustice!) done to the Fore River Basin residents by Enbridge, MADEP, FERC and Governor Gas.

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.

Yes, Campers, another "unplanned release." AKA, accident.

Great round-up of latest information on what is going on at FERC as well. Many thanks to the Harvard Public Review for spreading the word!

You can read the full article here - The Weymouth Compressor Station

Yup, Campers, yet another shut down. This time with no explanation other than "force majeure."

WBUR covered this story, you can read more here — Weymouth Compressor Shuts Down Again — For Fourth Time In Less Than A Year

FERC is reviewing the certification process of fracked gas facilities and is seeking input from the public during this review.

How can you take action? Write a comment in response to any of the questions that FERC has listed in the. We have also provided some sample responses; feel free to use them as a guide to submit a filing to FERC. We do suggest personalizing them a little so that FERC doesn't disregard form responses.

How do you submit your filing? You may have submitted comments to FERC before for some of our other action items, but eFiling is a little bit different. Our good friend Cathy Kristofferson has provided us with this detailed how-to eFile with FERC. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to email us: nocompressor@gmail.com

There has been a lot going on at the compressor station since the last accident that occurred on Tuesday, April 6. We thought it might be a good idea to do a PSA on what happened on that day and what Enbridge's response to the accident has been.

Today we revealed a new banner at the compressor site that reads, "Out of Order". The compressor station is currently not operational, after Enbridge experienced it's third accident in just 8 months.

The Town of Weymouth notified residents that Enbridge reported a third “unplanned release” of methane gas from the compressor station this morning — April 6. This marks three emergency system failures in 8 months. The first two occurred in September, less than three weeks apart. We do not yet know how much gas Enbridge released this morning.

Media:

WBUR - Weymouth Compressor Reports Another 'Unplanned' Gas Release. Third Time In 8 Months

The Boston Herald - Steve Lynch, officials renew call to shutter Weymouth compressor station after third unplanned gas leak