![]() Brooklyn residents rally outside the National Grid offices Sept. But opponents say the pipeline is an unnecessary piece of infrastructure designed to allow the utility to ask the state for more money from ratepayers. National Grid says the new pipeline allows the current gas supply to move around with more safety, reliability and efficiency. The pipeline is set to carry fracked gas under Brownsville, Bed-Stuy, Bushwick, Williamsburg and Greenpoint, ending at a National Grid Depot on Newtown Creek. ![]() Now, as more Brooklyn residents find out about the pipeline and its proposed $185 million price tag for ratepayers, there are intensifying calls to halt the project before it's too late. "Everyone in the neighborhood thought they were fixing the plumbing," Brownsville Residents Green Committee organizer Gabriel Jamison said. Now the first four phases of the pipeline are almost complete, and the utility wants to start running gas through it in the coming months, according to state filings.īut residents in neighborhoods where the seven-mile pipeline is being built say they only found out about it recently - and not from National Grid. National Grid started construction on the Metropolitan Natural Gas Reliability Project - also known as the North Brooklyn Pipeline - more than three years ago in May 2017. A map showing the complete proposed route of the pipeline and its evacuation zone, as estimated by. Fracked gas could soon be running through a new pipeline near you, despite rising calls for construction on the North Brooklyn Pipeline to be halted immediately.
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