National Grid has had an accident, spilling 1100 gallons of mostly oil, with gas and other chemicals that are mixed with natural gas into Jamaica Bay, NY as they repaired/fixed an old gas main. (?)
You can follow the story by clicking here at
http://www.sheepsheadbites.com/2012/09/oil-spill-brooklyn-national-grid/trackback/ Sheepshead Bites “Sheepshead Bay’s Only Independent Newsblog”.
According to officials, this happened at 1:30 am Saturday Morning, but some reports are saying Thursday night/Friday Morning, which means this was going on for over 24 hours? whats the real story?
that brings up some great questions…
Is 1:30am on a Friday night/Saturday morning the “preferred” time to be doing this work? or was it
- an emergency?
- a secret?
- something else?
Although 1100 gallons is not a “big” spill, it is devastating to the immediate area.
It also brings to the front questions about the pipleine National Grid are bringing through that area (amongst all the nationwide pipleine fights with leaky pipelines everywhere- Enbridge, and other tar sands fails!!) As well as the Long Beach Pipeline / Liquid Natural Gas(LNG) Port Pipeline that gets shot down annually.
See this New York Times Blogs article: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/29/proposed-gas-pipeline-endorsed-by-the-city-draws-criticism/
just published a few weeks ago.
Just another reason we need to tell LIPA and National Grid that although we believe they are trying to do the right thing, the “right thing” is Renewable Energy. The old days are done and we should know better by now!
They need to be leading and pursuing CLEAN RENEWABLE ENERGY NOW – it can easily be done, it’s just deciding they want to do it, instead of potential “disasters waiting to happen”.
(?) – very sketchy
