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Minisink, New York
Minisink, New York
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We went to Minisink, NY where they are in the middle of a huge battle to keep a gas compressor station from being placed in the middle of a residential zone. When built, the station would release 61,000 tons of pollutants into the air each year, including many known carcinogens. Many 9-11 first responders, families, Organic Farmers call Minisink home.
When residents first learned of plans to build the facility by Millennium Pipeline, a company owned by NiSource, they turned to their elected government officials for help. Ironically those same officials who invoke the memory of 9/11 every September, ignored their pleas for intervention. John Odland, a Minisink resident, says, "As a first responder of 9/11 I have to strongly argue against the gas compressor in Minisink. Many of my colleagues are suffering and some have died as a result of the toxins in the air we were exposed to at ground zero.“
Here is their story and for more information go to: www.we-must.com or www.stopmcs.org
When residents first learned of plans to build the facility by Millennium Pipeline, a company owned by NiSource, they turned to their elected government officials for help. Ironically those same officials who invoke the memory of 9/11 every September, ignored their pleas for intervention. John Odland, a Minisink resident, says, "As a first responder of 9/11 I have to strongly argue against the gas compressor in Minisink. Many of my colleagues are suffering and some have died as a result of the toxins in the air we were exposed to at ground zero.“
Here is their story and for more information go to: www.we-must.com or www.stopmcs.org
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