![]() “Right now we don’t have a lot of faith that the Public Service Commission is going to do the right thing and reject this rate hike. National Grid also plans to expand Greenpoint’s liquefied natural gas facility alongside the already heavily polluted Newtown Creek. The fracked gas infrastructure is set to run through Brownsville, Bed-Stuy, Bushwick, and Williamsburg. The goal of the campaign and strike is to stop the project out of concern for both public health and environmental destruction. “And after almost a year of confidential settlement negotiations that didn’t really involve community members … the plan that National Grid and the state came up with and filed in May just really ignored all the community’s concerns.” “The state and the city really haven’t stood up to National Grid, it’s really only ever been the community the community shut down construction last year,” Sane Energy Project Community Engagement Coordinator Lee Ziesche said. This is in response to National Grid and New York State’s gas bill increase to fund the $185 million needed to complete the pipeline, as well as accusations of greenwashing against National Grid. Since June 1, the campaign - which is organized and/or supported by the Sane Energy Project, Brownsville Residents Green Committee, Newtown Creek Alliance, and many more (including local politicians and representatives like Emily Gallagher, Jabari Brisport, and others) - has been in this phase of pipeline resistance, which urges residents to withhold $66 on monthly gas bills.
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