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By Will Weatherly on August 2, 2018
Sitting in The Lunch Box, a Dominican restaurant on Park Avenue in Cranston, Democratic candidate for Providence city council Deya Garcia (Ward 8, Reservoir and West End) shows me pictures of flowers. Her neighbors have dug in chayote, a kind of squash plant usually reserved for humid climates, and gave Garcia tips on how to […]
Posted in Education, Energy, Environmental Racism, Featured, News, Providence | Tagged DARE, Deya Garcia, Education, environmental racism, Fields Point LNG Plant, James Taylor, Mashapaug Pond, National Organization for Women, Rhode Island Jobs with Justice, Ward 8, wilbur jennings |
By Steve Ahlquist on March 17, 2016
The Providence City Council voted unanimously to approve Councillor Seth Yurdin’s resolution regarding National Grid’s proposed Fields Point Liquefaction Facility Thursday evening.
Posted in Civil Rights, Class Warfare, Corporate Greed, Energy, Featured, Health Care, Infrastructure, News, Providence, Race & Racism, Rhode Island | Tagged Environmental Justice League of Rhode Island, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, ferc, fields point, Fields Point Liquefaction Facility, Fields Point LNG Plant, national grid, Providence City Council, seth yurdin |
By Steve Ahlquist on November 10, 2015
Some of the comments were dismissed as irrelevant with the phrase, “Expression of commenter’s view.” This phrase was repeated 27 times, in response, for instance, to Greg Gerritt saying, “Climate change is the crisis of our times” or Jesus Holguin saying, “This facility is not going to benefit us in any way. Something that would benefit us is [a] just transition away from fossil fuels.”
Posted in Climate, Energy, Featured, Providence, Rhode Island | Tagged aaron regunberg, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, ferc, fields point, Fields Point LNG Plant, fracking, greg gerritt, Jesus Holguin, Juan Pichardo, lng, Monay McNeil, Narragansett Electric Company, national grid, Nick Katkevich |
By Steve Ahlquist on October 9, 2015
No one spoke in favor of the project, but more than 100 people packed the room and 33 people spoke against National Grid‘s plan to build a $100 million methane gas liquefaction facility in Fields Point in South Providence before representatives of FERC (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission), the agency tasked with the job of approving […]
Posted in Activism, Class Warfare, Climate, Corporate Greed, Featured, Photos, Poverty, Providence, Race & Racism, Rhode Island, Video | Tagged aaron regunberg, Ana Quezada, Beth Milham, Claudia Gorman, EJLRI, Environmental Justice League of Rhode Island, fang, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, ferc, Fields Point LNG Plant, Fighting Against Natural Gas, Fossil Free Rhode Island, Gina Rodríguez-Drix, Green Party of RI, greg gerritt, Jan Luby, Jesus Holguin, josh miller, Juan Pichardo, Julian Rodríguez-Drix, Karen Palmer, Lisa Petrie, lng, Marti Rosenberg, national grid, Nick Katkevich, Peter Nightingale, Prosperity for RI, Sheldon Whitehouse, Stephen Dahl, Steve Roberts, Susan Walker, Vanessa Flores-Maldonado, Will Lambek |
By Steve Ahlquist on October 1, 2015
Rhode Islanders will get their only chance to directly address their concerns regarding a proposed methane liquefaction facility in South Providence next Thursday night. The proposal needs approval by FERC (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission), an agency that has never, to my knowledge, turned down such an application in the past.
Posted in Activism, Class Warfare, Climate, Corporate Greed, Energy, Featured, Providence | Tagged EJLRI, Environmental Justice League of Rhode Island, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, ferc, fields point, Fields Point LNG Plant, Gina Raimondo, national grid |
By Steve Ahlquist on August 15, 2015
“It was hard not to see the sudden explosion of police on the scene occurring precisely when people of color arrived as anything other than an expression of the kind of institutionalized environmental and economic racism that the groups were protesting.”
Posted in Climate, Corporate Greed, Energy, Featured, Race & Racism, Video | Tagged Curtis Nordgaard, David Graves, EJLRI, Environmental Justice League of Rhode Island, environmental racism, fang, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, ferc, Fields Point LNG Plant, Fighting Against Natural Gas, Fossil Free Rhode Island, Jesus Holguin, Juanita Sanchez Educational Complex, Julian Rodríguez-Drix, national grid, Noel Healy, providence student union, Providence Youth Student Movement, PrYSM, psu, RI Sierra Club, Spectra Energy Compressor Station, Steven Roberts |
By Steve Ahlquist on August 15, 2015
National Grid asked for public comment on their plan to build a LNG liquefaction system at the Fields Point LNG Plant on Providence’s South Side, and boy, did they get it. Representatives from the Providence Youth Student Movement (PrYSM), the Providence Student Union (PSU) and the Environmental Justice League of Rhode Island (EJLRI) took control […]
Posted in Activism, Climate, Corporate Greed, Energy, Featured, Video, Youth | Tagged EJLRI, Environmental Justice League of Rhode Island, environmental racism, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, ferc, Fields Point LNG Plant, Jesus Holguin, Juanita Sanchez Educational Complex, Julian Rodríguez-Drix, national grid, providence student union, Providence Youth Student Movement, PrYSM, psu, Steven Roberts |
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