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By Will Weatherly on July 19, 2018
After what might be considered a 35-year slow burn for the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), the past year—and especially the last month—has seen the DSA’s flame burn fast and bright. The group gained almost 17,000 dues-paying members in the first 10 months of the Trump presidency. In New York City, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, an outspoken […]
Posted in Climate, Corporate Greed, Elections, Energy, Environmental Racism, Featured, Inequality, News, Politics, Providence | Tagged #NationalizeGrid, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Cynthia Nixon, Endorsements, George Wiley Center, national grid, No LNG in PVD, Providence Democratic Socialists of America, Rachel Miller, Sam Bell, Thea Riofrancos |
By Steve Ahlquist on October 17, 2017
“When we point out our concerns, the answer is ‘we have a very limited interpretation of the regulations’ but when National Grid fails to participate, the response is that you have a wide interpretation of the regulations.”
Posted in Activism, Class Warfare, Climate, Corporate Greed, Energy, Environmental Racism, Featured, Health Care, Infrastructure, Photos, Providence, Race & Racism, Rhode Island, State House, Video, Women | Tagged Aaron Jaehnig, Andrew Poyant, Chief Resiliency Officer, Clean Water Act, Coastal Resources Management Council, Coastal Zone Management Act, crmc, FANG Collective, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, ferc, Gina Raimondo, janet coit, Monika Huertas, national grid, Nick Katkevich, No LNG in PVD, Port of Providence, Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management, Rico Vota, RIDEM, Sean O'Roarke, Short Term Response Action Plan, STRAP, Terrence Gray |
By Steve Ahlquist on September 28, 2017
“Neither the Governor or Save the Bay have chosen to stand with the communities that would be most impacted by a severe weather event in RI and oppose National Grid’s toxic and dangerous LNG liquefaction facility in the Port of Providence.”
Posted in Activism, Class Warfare, Climate, Corporate Greed, Energy, Environmental Racism, Featured, Health Care, Inequality, Infrastructure, Photos, Providence, Rhode Island, State House, Video, Women, Youth | Tagged Aaron Jaenig, Duane Clinker, Gina Raimondo, Jonathan Stone, LNG liquefaction, Mary Pendergast, Monica Huertas, national grid, No LNG in PVD, Port of Providence, Save The Bay |
By Steve Ahlquist on September 28, 2017
Chief Resiliency Officer Shawn O’Roarke held the first of a series of ten Resiliency Roundtables at the Save the Bay Campus, drawing a crowd of just over 50 people interested in finding solutions to the effects of climate change.
Posted in Activism, Burrillville, Central Falls, Climate, Cranston, East Providence, Energy, Environmental Racism, Featured, Florida, Health Care, Inequality, Infrastructure, North Providence, Pawtucket, Photos, Providence, Science, Texas, Video, Warwick | Tagged Chief Resiliency Officer, climate change, Department of Administration, Division of Statewide Planning, EC4, EFSB, Energy Facilities Siting Board, Gina Raimondo, Invenergy, Monica Huertas, national grid, No LNG in PVD, Parag Agrawal, Port of Providence, Resiliency Roundtables, Rhode Island Executive Climate Change Coordinating Council, Save the Bay Campus, Shawn O'Roarke |
By Steve Ahlquist on August 23, 2017
“What we heard today clearly is that the energy burden that is experienced by many in Rhode Island tears at the social fabric of our state,” said Abigail Anthony, on her first day as a commissioner on the PUC.
Posted in Activism, Class Warfare, Climate, Corporate Greed, Energy, Featured, Inequality, Infrastructure, National News, News, People, Photos, Politics, Rhode Island, State House, Video | Tagged aaron regunberg, Abigail Anthony, Acadia Center, Allan Fung, Camilo Viveiros, Chloe Chassaing, Colin Nagle, Daniel McKee, Douglas Gablinski, Erika Niedowski, Gael Tadded, George Wiley Center, Gina Raimondo, John Gallager, Kat Burnham, Kate Schapira, Margaret Curran, Marion Gold, national grid, Pat Morgan, People’s Power and Light, puc, Rhode Island Business Coalition, Rhode Island Public Utilities Commission, Rhode Islanders for Affordable Energy, Robert Lancia, Suzanne Dumas, TEC-RI |
By Steve Ahlquist on August 17, 2017
The choice that Providence now has in the Superior Court lawsuit is whether to side with a Delaware corporation, based in Chicago, that wants to build a dirty, carbon-emitting, diesel oil and fracked gas power plant in a rural Rhode Island community or side with local citizens and environmentalists that oppose this unneeded and dirty plant.”
Posted in Burrillville, Climate, Energy, Featured, Infrastructure, Johnston, Labor, Providence, Rhode Island | Tagged CLF, Conservation Law Foundation, EFSB, Energy Facility Siting Board, Invenergy, Jerry Elmer, jorge elorza, Michael Sabatoni, national grid, New England, Providence City Council, Rhode Island Building and Construction Trades Council, Rhode Island Superior Court, RIBCTC, Sabina Matos, seth yurdin |
By Steve Ahlquist on August 15, 2017
“We’ve never staked out a position that we are against natural gas. We don’t have a position that we are against natural gas,” said Jonathan Stone, Executive Director of Save the Bay.
Posted in Climate, Energy, Environmental Racism, Featured | Tagged Allens Avenue, Boston Harbor, burrillville, CLF, Climate Action Rhode Island, Connecticut Pipeline, Conservation Law Foundation, crmc, Environmental Justice League of Rhode Island, Everett Massachusetts, ExxonMobile, FANG Collective, fields point, Fossil Free Rhode Island, Hess Terminal, Jonathan Stone, Manchester Street Power Station, Narragansett Bay, national grid, Nature Conservancy, Port of Providence, Providence River, Rhode Island Audubon Society, Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council, Rhode Island Sierra Club, Save The Bay, ScottsMiracle-Gro, Shell Oil, Sisters of Mercy Ecology, Washington Park |
By Steve Ahlquist on August 13, 2017
“It’s a sales meeting! It’s not public comment.”
Posted in Activism, Climate, Corporate Greed, Energy, Environmental Racism, Featured, Infrastructure, Photos, Providence, Rhode Island, Video, Women, Youth | Tagged Aaron Jaenig, Amy Willoughby, Broad Street, Christine Cabrera, Ellen Tuzzolo, Environmental Justice League of Rhode Island, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, ferc, Gina Raimondo, Joe Martello, national grid, Open Table of Christ Church, PIP, Port of Providence, Providence Public Safety Complex, Public Involvement Process, Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management, RIDEM, Short Term Response Action Plan, STRAP |
By Steve Ahlquist on August 11, 2017
Providence, though, has been named in the lawsuit, and the decision the city faces is what side of the lawsuit to be on.
Posted in Burrillville, Climate, Energy, Featured, Infrastructure, Johnston, Labor, News, Providence, Rhode Island | Tagged CLF, Conservation Law Foundation, Jerry Elmer, jorge elorza, Michael Sabitoni, national grid, Providence City Council, Providence Water, Rhode Island Building and Construction Trades, RIBCTC, seth yurdin |
By Steve Ahlquist on July 15, 2017
Governor Raimondo’s gesture is meaningless and empty unless it is backed up with concrete action. Governor Raimondo cannot simultaneously support the Paris Agreement and support Invenergy’s plan to build a carbon-emitting, diesel oil, and fracked gas power plant in Burrillville.
Posted in Activism, Burrillville, Class Warfare, Climate, Corporate Greed, Energy, Environmental Racism, Events, Featured, Health Care, Inequality, Infrastructure, International News, National News, News, Photos, Providence, Rhode Island, State House, Video, Water, Women, Youth | Tagged Alexandra Duryea, Brown University, Burrillville Land Trust, CLF, Climate Action Rhode Island, Conservation Law Foundation, Environmental Council of Rhode Island, Fossil Free Rhode Island, Gina Raimondo, Invenergy, Jerry Elmer, Justin Boyan, Kat Burnham, Monica Huertas, National Governors Association, national grid, NGA, No LNG in PVD, Paris Climate Accord, Paul Roselli, providence college, Rhode Island Convention Center, Robert Malin, Timmons Roberts |
By Steve Ahlquist on July 14, 2017
“We have been at it for over a year. We will push you tooth and nail, permit by permit, meeting by meeting, hour by hour, day by day. We are not backing down. You have not seen loud or disruptive yet. Try it. Try to permit it. Try it. Try it.”
Posted in Activism, Climate, Corporate Greed, Energy, Environmental Racism, Featured, News, Photos, Providence, Rhode Island, Video | Tagged Allens Avenue, Amy Willoughby, Andrew Poyant, Childhood Lead Action Project, Christina Cabrera, David Veliz, EJLeague, Environmental Justice League of Rhode Island, Fossil Free Rhode Island, impermissible segmentation, Jeanine Calkin, Jed Brainerd, Jessica Stensrud, Joe Carvalho, Joey DiZoglio, John Lombardi, Joseph Martella, Joshua Miller, Julian Rodríguez-Drix, Karen Blazer, Kate Schapira, Kirsten Murphy, Liquefaction Project, Lorraine Savard, Monica Huertas, national grid, No LNG in PVD, Port of Providence, Providence Public Safety Complex, Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management, Rhode Island Serra Club, RIDEM, Robert Malin, Sally Mendzela, Shannon Donahue, Stephanie Strub, Washington Park |
By Steve Ahlquist on July 9, 2017
When National Grid sponsored Waterfire Saturday evening they may not have expected a dozen members of The George Wiley Center to challenge them on high utility costs for low-income Rhode Islanders.
Posted in Activism, Corporate Greed, Energy, Featured, Justice, News, Photos, Providence, Rhode Island, Video | Tagged Camilo Viveiros, George Wiley Center, national grid, Percentage Income Payment Plan, PIPP, Timothy Horan, WaterFire |
By Steve Ahlquist on July 5, 2017
Holding the meeting inside the police station seems to many to be an escalation of racialized policing on the part of National Grid.
Posted in Activism, Climate, Energy, Environmental Racism, Featured, Infrastructure, Justice, Providence, Rhode Island | Tagged David Graves, EJLRI, Environmental Justice Focus Area, Environmental Justice League of Rhode Island, Fields Point Liquefaction Project, Juanita Sanchez Educational Complex, Monica Huertas, national grid, No LNG in PVD, PIP, Port of Providence, Providence Public Safety Complex, Public Involvement Plan, Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management, RIDEM, Short Term Response Action Plan, STRAP |
By Steve Ahlquist on June 28, 2017
Why is the General Assembly seemingly so intent on destroying a program that works so well at reducing energy costs and greenhouse gasses?
Posted in Business, Climate, Corporate Greed, Economics, Energy, Featured, Infrastructure, National News, News, Rhode Island, State House, Video | Tagged 2006 Comprehensive Energy Conservation Efficiency and Reliability Act, Abigail Anthony, Acadia Center, Arthur Corvese, CLF, Conservation Law Foundation, Douglas Gablinske, energy efficiency, General Assembly, Jerry Elmer, Kat Burnham, Michael Ryan, national grid, Nicholas Mattiello, OER, Office of Energy Resources, People’s Power & Light, People’s Power and Light, Public Utilities Commission, puc, Rhode Island House of Representatives, Robert Jacquard, Senate Commerce, TEC-RI |
By Paul Roselli on June 23, 2017
As House and Senate start the process of approving the State of Rhode Island 2018 budget proposed by House and Senate leadership and the Governor. In this budget is a movement to take $12.5 million from the energy efficiency fund and place it in the state’s general fund to offset the money lost from removing […]
Posted in Featured, State House | Tagged energy efficiency fund, national grid, People’s Power and Light, State House |
By Steve Ahlquist on June 1, 2017
“We don’t know if he’s actually going to do it,” said Timmons Roberts about Trump “cancelling” the Paris Accords, “We’re waiting to hear. We think very well that he might. We’re here because we care enough to try to defend this important treaty…”
Posted in Activism, Climate, Corporate Greed, Energy, Environmental Racism, Featured, Infrastructure, International News, People, Photos, Science, Video | Tagged Brown University, Dave Gerraughty, donald trump, Energize RI, Energize RI Clean Energy Investment and Carbon Pricing Act of 2017, greg gerritt, Kate Schapira, national grid, Paris climate accords, Rhode Island General Assembly, RI Future, Timmons Roberts, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change |
By Steve Ahlquist on May 24, 2017
“Rhode Islanders need assurance that the effects have been, or are being, investigated and that their state is doing everything possible to protect them, including arming them with any information they need to protect themselves.”
Posted in Climate, Energy, Environmental Racism, Featured, Health Care, Infrastructure, State House | Tagged Ana Quezada, DEM, DOH, Harold Metts, janet coit, Jeanine Calkin, Narragansett Bay, national grid, Nicole Alexander-Scott, Port of Providence, puc, Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management, Rhode Island Department of Health, Rhode Island Public Utilities Commission, Senat, South Providence, Washington Park |
By Steve Ahlquist on May 24, 2017
Estimated to cost $47.2 million dollars, the project will clear cut approximately 74 acres, more wooded area than the power plant itself.
Posted in Burrillville, Climate, Corporate Greed, Energy, Featured, Infrastructure, Photos, Rhode Island, Video | Tagged Burrillville Interconnection Project, Claudia Gorman, David Beron, EFSB, Energy Facility Siting Board, Invenergy, national grid |
By Steve Ahlquist on May 3, 2017
“It was determined that the leak was caused by a hairline crack in a joint between two lengths of gas main and had traveled into the telephone manhole.”
Posted in Climate, Energy, Featured, Infrastructure, News, Providence | Tagged David Graves, Dig Safe, Edward Markey, Kathy Curran, kennedy plaza, Kevin Rothstein, national grid, Providence Fire Department, Providence Police Department, Susan Campbell |
By Peter Nightingale on May 3, 2017
Commissioner Colette Honorable of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) announced last Friday that she will quit when her term expires in June. This could leave the agency with only one commissioner, acting Chairwoman Cheryl LaFleur. LaFleur, one of the few Obama appointees to be retained by President Trump, was the acting CEO of National […]
Posted in Climate, Energy, Featured, Infrastructure | Tagged Cheryl LaFleur, Colette Honorable, ferc, national grid |
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