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People Over Pipelines

Agnes Marsala

President

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What is People Over Pipelines?

  • A domestic non-profit community organization incorporated on March 8, 2016
  • Seventeen original members
    • Some have dropped out or moved
  • Four Executive Officers/Board of Trustees
    • President
    • Vice-President
    • Treasurer
    • Recording/Correspondence Secretary
  • Grown to over 500 members

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Why Did We Form?

  • As a response to the proposed Transco/Williams Garden State Expansion Project Compressor Station and the New Jersey Natural Gas Southern Reliability Link Pipeline
    • The more we learned about these proposals the greater our concern
    • We were not getting much information from regulators and elected officials
    • In fact, we learned we are always the last to know anything and often that knowledge came too late for us to have an impact on the outcome of events
  • Our collective voices are more effective

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What We’ve Done

  • Intervened with the FERC both as individuals and as POP
  • Attended BPU Hearings, Township Committee Meetings, Board of Chosen Freeholder Meetings and State Legislative Hearings
  • Met with elected officials and/or their staff
  • Held rallies/protests and fundraisers
  • Pushed for (and gotten) Public Hearings on Water Quality Permits.
  • Encouraged local municipalities to fight these projects
  • Joined forces with others along the route from Pennsylvania to Manchester, NJ

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What More Can We Do?

  • Continue to push the NJDEP to deny the �Permits needed for each project and bring suit if they refuse
  • Write to our elected representatives as well as Letters to the Editor of any and all outlets
  • Connect with others across the state and nationwide who are concerned with the proliferation of fossil fuels, especially those obtained through extreme extraction techniques
  • Demand Clean Energy and Clean Energy Jobs NOW

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Why Should We Do It?

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Thank You