Dear Jamie -- I JUST thought of this 10 minutes ago. Wish Id done so sooner!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT DO YOU THINK?? PR-wise? Can we use this situation to ask ALL 5 of the candidates for governor to take a stand on this particular neighborhood pipeline situation where information-sharing and thus democracy !! was clearly not served? By doing so, we wd have a better understanding. FINAL PUBLIC HEARING (tho they are saying we have all received LOTS of meeting notifications for over a year...NOT. Seriously??!) MON - Sep 8th - 6:30pm HOLIDAY INN 55 Ariadne Rd. [ Minotaur?] Dedham, MA 02026 This is the NEXT street on the right from the turn off to the LEGACY MALL Just before the Providence Highway (Rt. 1) entrance to I-95 N/S FERC has final say. They will make a short presentation and then open the meeting to comments. If YOU have any feelings of opposition, this is the place to make them known. Spectra Energy natural gas pipeline from Westwood, through Dedham, up Washington Street (with ALL its active businesses), and the up Grove Street (also with many businesses at its base) CAN WE USE THIS neighborhood-based local opportunity to get the gubernatorial candidates ( ALL 5 of them) to take a stand/show their colors about climate change/sustainability priorities (and, by the way, whether fracking will lead to a Spectra Energy natural gas pipeline and metering station across the street from an 80+year old ACTIVE quarry just one and a 1/2 blocks AWAY FROM MY OWN HOME, which includes my 17yr.old son)???? Shouldnt we? ------------------------- Are you aware of the brewing controversy in the rather conservative (but pro-environment), and VERY politically in terms of voter turnout, West Roxbury, MA?? JUST LAST WEDNESDAY, myself and a bunch of my neighbors received an email from a local environmental group notifying us for the VERY FIRST TIME that a risky and dangerous gas pipeline project was being proposed for our area. We were invited to the nearby Elks Club ( 8 hour notice) for an OPEN HOUSE - NOT and informational session, with questions - to hear from 16 representatives of Spectra Energy as we circled 15-20 poster boards outlining the project. For the very first time, we (the basic neighborhood types from around here!!) learned that the Algonquin expansion project includes pipeline and compressor station construction from New York to MA, across 4 states ( originating in the famous, so sad, Marcellus Shale of Pennsylvania where the people are so poor they will sell off their family homestead so that the horrible ridiculous fracking process can occur. On technological and environmental principle, the whole project is thoroughly questionable. BUT ON SIMPLY THE QUESTION OF DEMOCRACY AND RIGHT OF WAY, how can this be conscionable ?? --------- This is some of the scuttle-but I heard as I walked around: 1. Oh, yes! This STRATEGY is most certainly part of OUR general U.S. national ENERGY POLICY to create a CONNECTING natural gas conduit from the Marcellus Shale fracking fields in PA, up through New England to then be PAID FOR and distributed overseas (for developing nations like India and China) through the Canadian MARITIME pipelines.................................THAT point of view was vociferously and strenuously protested against, by the Spectra Energy representatives at our meeting: We are most certainly a US company. We are NOT in the business of selling our gas to other countries!! [Im thinking: you seem like nice people. But I think you are in denial]. 2. Its a done deal...Now we can just try to get the Cadillac vs the Pinto version of the metering station. 3. Office of a major NATIONAL politician: This is a done deal. There is nothing we can do about it. 4. Office of Congressman Lynch, and hearsay from the Mayors Office: We are sending FERC a letter asking for a postponement, or at least a second meeting, but we are worried there is nothing we can do about it. But we are doing the best that we can. ME: THANK YOU so much Congressman Lynch and the Mayor. QUESTION FROM ME: So you just heard about it? Yes. ME: Seriously? Office of Congressman LynchWell, we just heard about the West Roxbury Project. But we of course DID know about the Algonquin Project, in general earlier and before. 5. City agency at my West Roxbury Farmers Market today: Oh, yes!! We have heard from the Mayors office that they are all over this!! THEY are going to DEAL with it! I dont think you should worry. Or at least, I think there is nothing more you can do. 6. What do YOU SAY???............ ----- Original Message ----- From: Jamie Henn - 350.org To: Andrea Doremus Sent: Sun, 07 Sep 2014 14:14:31 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Disruption premieres tonight! Free screening near you. Click here to RSVP for the screening of Disruption in Boston Disruption is a short film about how we can change the world -- before the fossil fuel industry irreversibly changes the climate. It looks at how social movements of the past mobilized at decisive moments to shift the course of history and applies those lessons to the decisive fight of this generation. It features author and filmmaker Naomi Klein, CNN host and movement leader Van Jones, MSNBCs Chris Hayes, plus many more, including some of the key scientific voices sounding the alarm. You’re in luck -- there’s at least one screening of Disruption near you. 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