Mar 11, 2021Danskammer’s Disappearing Act: a case study in environmental injustice.What happens when you disappear an entire community from view when making the case to build yet another fracked gas power plant? You are essentially lying with maps. This is the case with the Danskammer power plant, and the result is nothing short of environmental injustice. The Hudson Valley is…Environmental Justice6 min readEnvironmental Justice6 min read
Apr 21, 2020Member-onlyExtreme Energy: fracked gas in the era of Covid- 19While the public-at-large adheres to lockdown guidelines due to Covid-19, the oil and gas industry is running roughshod over local communities, refusing to curtail its projects. As soon as Covid-19 became a threat to the incessant pursuit of ever-more infrastructure, industry called in its chips at the Trump Administration, securing…Covid-194 min readCovid-194 min read
Mar 28, 2020Trump’s COVID-19 ‘Risk Map’ will convey a false picture of safely for his base.As part of President Trump’s ongoing campaign for a ‘packed churches’ Easter miracle, a dangerous trial balloon has been launched in the form of a ‘risk map’. …Covid-196 min readCovid-196 min read
Feb 19, 2020Member-onlyFracked Gas: the debt-ridden morass formerly pimped as a ‘bridge fuel’In the depths of the Great Recession, fracking took hold in American shale basins, spawning an unending, debt-fueled glut of domestic oil and gas. To prop up the industry, a euphemistic nomenclature was propagated, undergirded by the ubiquitous bridge fuel trope¹. Linking together a dirty past (coal)…Fracking13 min readFracking13 min read
Feb 1, 2020The Weymouth Compressor Station: Exhibit A in the persistence of toxic burden ‘hotspots’To date, the unrelenting ‘natural’ gas infrastructure buildout of frack pads, gathering lines, interstate pipelines, compressor stations, power plants, cracker plants and LNG ports has occurred largely ‘upstream’¹ of America’s urban centers. Within urban centers, smaller local distribution pipes dominate —invisible, mundane urban infrastructure. …Fracking7 min readFracking7 min read
Aug 17, 2019Member-onlyThe Kentucky Enbridge Pipeline Explosion: everyday risk buried in American backyards.I n the early hours of the first day of August, 2019, an unassuming mobile home park experienced firsthand the nightmare lurking in thousands of everyday backyards across the United States. Located in Lincoln County in the middle of Kentucky, this particular rural development blew up overnight, resulting in one…Climate Change8 min readClimate Change8 min read
Jun 18, 2019Member-only“The Polar Vortex is Coming”: Fracked Gas’ clarion call to build more pipelines.During the winter of 2013–2014, the Northeastern United States was plunged into a deep freeze due to a seemingly rarified weather pattern known as the ‘Polar Vortex’. In the short half decade since, the phenomenon has become increasingly familiar, punctuating relatively mild winters with short-lived yet drastic deep freezes. …Energy11 min readEnergy11 min read
Jan 11, 2019The Weymouth Compressor Station: Massachusetts’ Moment of Climate TruthComing just days after the disastrous decision in Virginia by its Department of Environmental Quality Air Board to approve the siting of a massive shale gas compressor in a known and documented historical African American and Environmental Justice community, Massachusetts today stands at the very same precipice. …Climate Change3 min readClimate Change3 min read
Jan 8, 2019Dominion Energy & Environmental Racism: a case study in how to lie with mapsYes, the title is provocative, but its not entirely mine. I simply and liberally borrow from the classic Mark Monmonier primer entitled How to Lie with Maps. …Urban Planning13 min readUrban Planning13 min read
Nov 5, 2018NY19 at a Crossroads: why I’m not voting for John Faso, and why he may loseLate in former NY19 representative Chris Gibson’s career — February 19, 2016 to be exact — he authored a pointed request to The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to take the warranted concerns of his constituents over Fracked Gas infrastructure seriously. …Environment5 min readEnvironment5 min read
