Image source: Williams Transco via WNYC – click here for a bigger image We wanted to remind you about this natural gas pipeline that may be built under the Rockaways, if the paperwork is approved by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Despite the current dire situation post-Hurricane Sandy, plans for the Rockaway Lateral Project are moving forward. WNYC tells us that it would be, “a 3.17 mile pipeline that would connect to an exiting natural gas line in the Atlantic Ocean and run beneath Jacob Riis Park in the Rockaways (which has become somewhat of a dumping ground for debris from the hurricane) and Jamaica Bay to Brooklyn’s Floyd Bennett Field.” A company called Williams Transco is developing this pipeline project – their established pipelines transport a heck of a lot of natural gas to the Northeast and Southeast US. This gas is produced in the US along the Gulf Coast, Appalachia and Mid-Continent.… Read More
