Explosions, health risks, higher bills: Why North Brooklyn residents are fighting this project.
"Stop lying to our community."
Citing risks of explosions, health hazards and higher bills, Community Board 1 unanimously opposed a controversial gas pipeline this week that National Grid wants to build underneath Williamsburg and Greenpoint.
The utility company plans to install roughly 14,000 feet of a new underground gas main and is asking customers to foot the $185 million bill through rate hikes for the final phase of the project.
It’s “a transmission pipeline project that will bascially proliferate the use of fracked gas and build piping infrastructure under residencies and businesses that propose great danger,” said board member Steve Chesler.