WADSWORTH — A number of Wayne County residents who turned up for what they believed would be a public comment meeting organized by a federal commission to air concerns about the NEXUS pipeline seemed to be equally upset with the project and the new format for the “meeting.” Deb Adkins, whose house is within 100 feet or so of the original path, was surprised to discover FERC changed the format of the meeting. Previous public comment meetings were held in auditoriums with people wishing to speak going to the front, speaking into a microphone and addressing FERC staff on a stage. The format Wednesday at Wadsworth High School was something new. Anyone wanting to speak signed in, received a number and, when called, went into a private room with a court reporter and offered …show more content…
I think it’s terrible.” West also did not like the format. “It deprives the rest of us,” West said. “I did not come here only to expound, but to hear others expound.” The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission released a draft environmental impact study of the NEXUS Gas Transmission line. Spectra Energy and DTE Energy are the lead developers, and the 255-mile pipeline was originally designed to come up from Kensington and travel north to meet up with a pipeline in Michigan and eventually make its way to Ontario, Canada. The 36-inch line will be capable of moving 1.5 billion cubic feet of natural gas a day and will not exceed a pressure of 1,440 pounds per square inch. The original proposed line cuts through 6.6 miles of Chippewa Township. But, an alternate route FERC is considering would change the path of the line to cut through the southern portion of Wayne County and snake up the western portion of it. This is known as the city of Green alternative. While people like Adkins and West want to see the path moved, there are those like Gary and Judy Alsdorf who don’t want to see it routed by their property south of
This segment consists of the three natural gas pipelines: Panhandle Eastern, Trunkline, and Sea Robin, natural gas storage assets, and the Trunkline LNG terminal. The three pipelines have a total length of approximately 10,000 miles and transport 5.5 Bcf/d of natural gas. The Panhandle Eastern pipeline transports natural gas from the Rocky Mountains and Midcontinent supply areas to...
The installation of the Keystone Pipeline began with Phase One, the installation of 2,147 miles of pipeline stretching from Alberta to refineries in Illinois. The installation and administration of Phase One included the conversion of 537 miles of Ca...
We defiantly need to establish the safety behind this. But safety is not only for the people around the pipeline but for the impact the building of said pipe line will have on the environment around it. Also what safety nets do we have in place in case of environmental catastrophe.
The Keystone XL Pipeline is a proposed pipeline project, by TransCanada Pipelines Limited, involving the transportation of up to 830,000 barrels of oil per day from Alberta, Canada to the Gulf of Mexico area in Texas. “The United States portion of the pipeline would begin near Morgan, Montana, at the international border of the United States and extend to delivery points in Nederland and Moore Junction, Texas. There would also be a delivery point at Cushing, Oklahoma” (Environmental 5). The delivery points would grant access to multiple other pipelines and refineries located all around the United States. “The Keystone XL pipeline would consist of approximately 1,711 miles of new 36-inch-diameter pipeline, with approximately 327 miles of pipeline
This Paper will describe and analyze three articles pertaining to the ongoing debate for and against Glen Canyon Dam. Two of these articles were found in the 1999 edition of A Sense of Place, and the third was downloaded off a site on the Internet (http://www.glencanyon.net/club.htm). These articles wi...
Recently, TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline has become a hot debate topic. Those who oppose the Western United States oil pipeline are misled and uniformed. The US Government should authorize the Keystone XL Pipeline that would import tar sand oil from Canada. The pipeline would generate jobs and help to remove foreign oil dependency, is the safest transportation option being considered and finally will not harm or affect the environment as opponents claim.
By now, many Americans have been made aware of the construction of the Keystone Pipeline XL. It has been seven years since the pipeline was first proposed by the TransCanada Corporation with the intent to “allow crude oil from Canadian oil sands to reach U.S. refineries on the Gulf Coast” (Mantel par. 2 on Chronology timeline). Some Americans are in favor of the construction of the Keystone Pipeline XL and others are strongly opposed to it. On Feb. 17, 2013, thousands of protestors gathered at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. in the hopes that President Barack Obama would reject the construction of the $53 billion oil pipeline (Snyder par. 1). The rally attracted 35,000 people making it the largest climate-change protest in U.S. history,
The issue with typical public hearings is, not everyone can attend, and not everyone who attends speaks. The first problem should have been alleviated by the fact questionnaire asking what times and dates worked best for the community in the photo questionnaire and set up the public hearing accordingly. The second part is more difficult to deal with, not everyone is comfortable speaking in public, or even at the community gathering they may not be comfortable coming up to strangers to voice their concerns. So, when everyone arrives on their way into the hearing a small survey will be given to them that also provides space for them to write down their concerns. This survey will not only gauge preference, but will also be asking some personal questions about age, race, and sex so that there can be an accurate measure of who showed up to the public hearing and different concerns of different subcultures. This survey will provide data that can be utilized in the future, that is more accurate than simply writing down what everyone says during the public hearing. For the public hearing, there will be multiple different design approaches shown that were created based off the results of the questionnaire, these designs will show the community what is possible, and that their input is being heard. Rather than asking them to pick a favorite of the bunch they will be asked to pick some
The WLC’s innovative environmental design, water conservation strategies and requirements for the cleanest diesel technology available make it a model project. For Riverside County, the biggest concern was Gilman Springs Road, a two-lane county road at the project’s eastern boundary that county officials say already is overburdened and would see an additional 6,019 cars and 420 trucks a day with the logistics center [source]. The South Coast Air Quality Management District and a coalition of environmental groups led by Earthjustice, a Los Angeles environmental firm, say they are continuing with their legal challenges. Penny Newman, executive director of the Jurupa Valley-based Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice, one of the groups suing, said the two county agencies’ concerns were limited to traffic impacts but the project has many other problems
...ment to New Jersey using water resource concerns as a tool to limit large-scale suburban development. These southern agricultural counties are a unique region where large numbers of people are dependent on valuable groundwater resources to continue living in a healthy environment.
A general knowledge of injustice perpetrated against Native Americans is crucial, but in order to prompt serious change, the public needs to be educated about how decisions regarding the pipeline affect everyday life on the reservation. When the pipeline was proposed, it initially traveled through Bismarck, North Dakota, where the residents complained about the potential hazardous effects of the pipeline. Immediately, it was rerouted towards the Standing Rock Sioux reservation, where residents suffer a much lower quality of life than non-reservation counterparts: a 43% poverty rate, 79% unemployment, rampant alcoholism, and some of the highest childhood mortality, suicide, and dropout rates in the country (Lee). Life can be bleak on the reservation,
Originally it was supposed to be built 60 miles north, but was moved in Sioux nation in fear of the pipeline breaking would result in the contamination of the water supply in Bismarck, North Dakota. It is also a spiritual battle for these people that the earth is sacred. It is the first time people from all different tribes come together and fight for one problem that they still exist to protect mother earth. They are the protector and they won't be bought The people at the Oceti Sakowin campsite believe that the DAPL should be stopped because if there is ever a pipeline breakage and if it gets into their fresh water supplies from the rivers on their reservation would cause devastating effects tot their people. They also believe what they are doing will protect the
Conflict between residents in northern Nevada and SNWA has risen (Brean, 2015). In 2012 the U.S. Bureau of Land Management announced its support of SNWA wanting to build a pipeline from rural Nevada to Las Vegas, rural Nevada being primarily in the northern portion of the state (Larsen et al., 2015). Residents including farmers who depend on water for their crops argue that redirecting water supplies would harm the environment and wildlife that inhabit northern Nevada (Brean, 2015). There is also an issue of oversubscription, this is due to the Colorado River not only supplying water to Nevada but neighboring states which include “Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah” (Wockner, 2014). Both Arizona and California are expecting water shortages in the future as they too depend on the Colorado River (Wockner, 2014).
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. You playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We were all meant to shine, as children do. It’s not just in some of us it’s in everyone. And as we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others”.
In conclusion when delivering a public speech it was vital to leave time for questions and answers. This helped to know if the message was clearly understood by the audience and would be remembered. This section also empowered me to handle questions and answers section since some questions asked by audience were challenging and needed critical thinking.