🟢Connect the Dots ⚫Gas Utilities 🔵Climate Change
Stop Utility Rate Hikes in NY and Walking Tour Report
We made it in the New York Daily News, y’all! Recognizing the urgency of the climate crisis, the News decided to publish an op-ed co-authored by Sane Energy Director Kim Fraczek and Assemblymember Emily Gallagher, raising awareness about the need for Governor Hochul to take bold action that will protect our climate and communities.
Raising awareness is meaningless without action
As of this writing, six people have been killed by Tropical Storm Debby Exxon. Despite the rapidly accelerating force and frequency of hurricanes and wildfires, the fossil fuel industry and the public officials who enable them continue to jeopardize our planet's health for short-term gains.
It’s not enough to raise awareness in op-eds or on social media. We must turn awareness into action and fight for transformative legislation like the New York Heat Act. We must push for the retirement of fossil fuel infrastructure like National Grid’s toxic LNG facility in North Brooklyn. If we want a sustainable future, we must fight for a fossil fuel-free world.
Thur Aug 8 at 6 pm-7 pm Prepare for ACTION! Stop Utility Rate Hikes in NY! Virtual Briefing
Join us as we connect with our upstate allies at Citizen Action NY, AGREE, and Syracuse United Neighbors to share information about the proposed utility rate hikes in National Grid's upstate and downstate territories. This briefing will cover how rate proceedings work and how we can fight unjust bill hikes by taking part in actions in Albany, Syracuse, Long Island, and NYC on August 15.
North Brooklyn Monthly Walking Tour of National Grid’s Toxic Facility
Last week, activists from No North Brooklyn Pipeline Alliance and Sane Energy led a walking tour to the Greenpoint Energy Center. We were delighted that State Senator Kristen Gonzalez and Willis Elkins from Newtown Creek Alliance could join us. Discussions at this event focused on the urgent need to remediate the land on which the facility sits. Attendees were shocked by the size of the facility's liquefied fracked gas storage tanks and its danger to public health. Participants brainstormed alternative uses for the land, including composting and green spaces open to the public. The tour emphasized the need to retire, not replace, this toxic fossil fuel infrastructure.
Save the date for our September 5 walk & roll 🚶🏾🚶🏾♀️🚲, when we will continue these important conversations.
