Residents in North Brooklyn are urging the state to reject National Grid's plans to expand the Greenpoint Energy Center, arguing it would exacerbate reliance on gas, violate climate laws, and increase utility bills. The Public Service Commission held an online hearing, but technical issues hindered resident participation. Advocates, including Kim Fraczek of Sane Energy Project and Assemblymember Emily Gallagher, emphasized the need for clean energy and the dangers posed by the facility, with personal testimonies from affected locals highlighting health risks connected to the facility.
"Frontline residents with generations of cancer and illness came to demand the closure of National Grid's dangerous fracked gas facility, and the state didn't even have the respect to face them."
"People don't know what those white tanks are, but my father grew up in Greenpoint on Beadel Street right next to the facility, and he died from cancer."
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