![]() ![]() The Metropolitan Natural Gas Reliability Project, or the North Brooklyn pipeline as it’s known by locals, is a project spearheaded by National Grid that will transport fracked gas from the Marcellus shale in Pennsylvania and connect it to a liquefied natural gas facility in New York City. “Black lives also matter when it comes to environmental justice.” “We cannot cherry-pick when Black lives matter,” Gabriel Jamison, a 24-year old protest leader, told me last week. NYPD vans rushed to the scene and police arrested four people. On Thursday morning, two protesters climbed into the construction site and stood with a “frack out of Brooklyn” sign, refusing to leave. Instead, a crowd of mostly Black and Latino residents held “Love your neighbors” and “Brownsville Lives Matter” signs in a final effort to halt a little-known pipeline that, if completed, will circulate fracked gas through their neighborhood by the end of next month.īut as the final phase of the pipeline’s construction approaches, protests have intensified and residents have grown more desperate. ![]() Here, there were no helicopters hovering or scores of riot police on standby. Just 4 miles away in the neighborhood of Brownsville, several dozen people began a smaller march towards a construction site. ![]()
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