The materials you need to inform your community. Inspire them to take action against the Pilgrim Pipeline!
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Information Specific to NJ and NY
- The Public Role in [NY] State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA) and the “Scoping” Process [Scenic Hudson & Riverkeeper]
- New York Notice of Positive Declaration re: Pilgrim [NY Dept. Of Environmental Conservation]
- Letter to NY officials on scoping process [CAPP-NY]
- Is Ares Management Building a Pipeline to Nowhere? [Private Equity Closer Look]
- 23 Talking Points on Pilgrim Pipeline [Protecting Our Waters]
- Company’s case for proposed ‘Pilgrim’ pipelines undermined by data [Oil Change International]
- New York State SEQR (State Environmental Quality Review Act) Handbook (note that Chapter 3 addresses Lead Agency matters) [or see .pdf version here]
- Legal Issues Regarding Regulation of Pipelines Transporting Hazardous Liquids in New Jersey
- Point-by-Point Rebuttal to Pilgrim’s Claims
- Pilgrim Pipeline: Lies, Deceptions, Hypocrisies and Delusions [CAPP PowerPoint presentation rebutting Pilgrim myths] … click here for the PDF version
- Pipeline Threats to NJ Highlands Water Supply
- Sierra Club Webpage on Pilgrim Pipeline
- Counterarguments to Pilgrim Claims
- Reasons to Pass a Resolution Soon
- Press Release by Chatham Citizens Unite Against Crude Oil Pipeline Through Town
- The Proposed Pilgrim Pipeline: Cutting a Swath Through New York Communities to Move Bakken Crude [Citizens for Local Power]
- PSE&G Denies Pilgrim Pipeline Access to Rights-of-Way [NJ Sierra Club press release]
- Water Withdrawals in New Jersey from 2000 to 2009 [NJ DEP]
Safety of Pipelines and Bakken Oil
- How the Spectre of Oil Trains is Deceptively Used to Push Pipelines [Desmog Canada]
- Technology designed to detect U.S. energy pipeline leaks often fails [Reuters]
- Hazardous Liquid Pipeline Incidents 1986-2009 [Pipeline Safety Trust]
- Pipeline incidents – data compilations and statistics [Pipeline Safety Trust]
- Spills of Diluted Bitumen from Pipelines: A Comparative Study of Environmental Fate, Effects, and Response [National Academy of Sciences]
- Pipeline Incidents With Fire or Explosion [Stephen Q Shafer]
- Pipeline Incidents Without Fire or Explosion [Stephen Q Shafer]
- Effects of oil pipeline spills [submission to Highlands Council]
- What happens when you run oil pipelines under your water supply? An example from Michigan [VIDEO] [Motherboard]
- ANJEC Report: What to do when a pipeline is coming to town [Association of NJ Environmental Commissions]
- Politico Investigation: ‘Pipelines blow up and people die’ [Politico]
- Trains and Pipelines — Would One Replace the Other? [CAPP]
- National Crude Oil Spill Research Site in Bemidji, Minnesota [Minnesota Pollution Control Agency]
- USGS study links Montana oil spills to arsenic releases in groundwater [Missoulian]
- America’s Dangerous Pipelines [Center for Biological Diversity]
- Pipelines Safety and Security: Is It No More Than a Pipe Dream? [The Bent]
- Hazards of Transporting Bakken Oil [The Wall Street Journal]
- North Dakota’s Explosive Bakken Oil [The Globe and Mail]
- The Bakken Boom: East Coast At Risk
- The Downside of the [Bakken] Oil Boom [The New York Times]
- Facts on Pipeline Construction [Argonne National Laboratory]
- Oil Pipeline Leaks in the U.S.
- There’s Been HOW Many Pipeline Spills in Alberta in The Last Four Months?? [Daily Kos]
- Report: Pipeline incident occurs every 30 hours in U.S. [Wisconsin Gazette]
- Natural Gas and Hazardous Liquid Pipelines; A High Level Look [PHMSA presentation in Watchung]
- List of pipeline accidents in the U.S. in the 21st century [Wikipedia]
- Pipeline Company Gives Up on Cleaning Its Oil Spill [American Rivers]
- Keystone Leak Worse Than Thought [U.S. News & World Report]
- Crude oil leak from pumping station in Illinois [Belleville News-Democrat]
Health Effects of Pipelines and Bakken Oil
- Medical risks from oil pipelines [submission to Chatham Township Committee]
- Health Effects of Pipelines and Oil Spills [North Shore NOPE]
- Memo on Pilgrim’s Misleading Eminent Domain Claims
- Deny Permission to Survey Your Property
- Rescind Permission to Survey Your Property
- Information on Eminent Domain in New Jersey
- Eminent Domain under New York State Law
- Landowner’s Guide to Pipelines: Safety, Responsibilities, Your Rights [Pipeline Safety Trust]
- New Study Finds Oil Pipelines Adversely Affect Property Values [Scaling Green]
Environmental Impacts of the Project
- Interactive map: Identifying Natural and Cultural Resources along the New Jersey Pilgrim Pipeline Corridor
- Threatened and Endangered Species Along Pipeline Route
- Map of Pipeline Impacts on Surface Water Quality
- Oakland Environmental Commission Report
- Water Supply to Areas Outside the Highlands Region – map from the Highlands Regional Master Plan
- “The Proposed Pilgrim Pipeline: What Ulster County Citizens Need To Know” (applicable to others, too!) (YouTube video and slide show) [KingstonCitizens.org]
- “The Pilgrim Pipeline” – a short video by Zoe DeWitt, Independent Filmmaker
- Documents by Princeton Hydro, the consulting firm preparing our environmental study of the proposed Pilgrim route in New Jersey:
- View slides from the June 2017 presentation on environmental and regulatory conflicts along the route.
- View slides from the September 2016 presentation on assessing wetlands and streams along the proposed route.
- Watch a video of the June 2016 NJ Sierra Club town hall forum in Montville, NJ describing the environmental study. Or view the slides from this presentation.
- Sierra Club Presentation on the pipelines’ threat to water (June 2017)
- Sierra Club Presentation (September 2016)
- Pipeline Safety Coalition Presentation on Pilgrim Pipeline– 12/08/14 at Chatham Library
- Webinar: Public Risk of Pipelines and Infrastructure [Pipeline Safety Coalition] 11/01/16
- Presentation by Chatham Citizens Opposing Oil Pipeline
- Pilgrim 101 Webinar (YouTube recording and downloadable slide show) [Riverkeeper, & Citizens for Local Power]
- Pilgrim tells an audience that they won’t compensate homeowners in the event of a spill [George Bochis, V.P. of Pilgrim Pipeline Holdings, at a public forum in Kinnelon NJ]
- Speed Activism – a 2-minute “elevator pitch” to encourage people to join the cause against Pilgrim
- Double Trouble: Stop the Pilgrim Pipelines, Protect the Hudson Valley – 2-page fact sheet (Aug. 2017)
- Sharable Pilgrim Outreach Toolkit (NY) – a folder with an assortment of useful documents, suitable for printing for tabling events
- CAPP Event Poster Templates – “Water is Life” – version A, version B
- Sample Flyer for Distribution to Homes Along Pipeline Route
- STOP the Pilgrim Pipeline printable tri-fold brochure
- A Citizen View of Pilgrim Pipeline in NJ – printable tri-fold brochure
- Orange Co. trifold brochure
- Fair Warning on Easements … a 2-page explanation of the easement issue, suitable for printing as a flier
- Pilgrim Primer – NY … another 2-page summary suitable for printing as a flier
- Tips on Writing a Letter to the Editor (LTE)
- Map of Existing Energy Pipelines in New Jersey [NJ Spotlight; map created by Colleen O’Dea]
- National Pipeline Mapping System viewer [PHMSA]
- Map Displays Five Years of Oil Pipeline Spills [Center for Effective Government]
- Local Government Guide to Pipelines [Pipeline Safety Trust]
- “Our Risk Their Reward” Logo
Coalition Against Pilgrim Pipeline (CAPP) 