Resources

The materials you need to inform your community.  Inspire them to take action against the Pilgrim Pipeline!

** click for Frequently Asked Questions about the Pilgrim Pipeline **

** click for Resources Specific to the New York SEQR Process **


Information Specific to NJ and NY

  • The Public Role in [NY] State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA) and the “Scoping” Process [Scenic Hudson & Riverkeeper]
    • Drafting a Scoping Comment Letter
    • Sample Scoping Comment Letter
  • New York Notice of Positive Declaration re: Pilgrim [NY Dept. Of Environmental Conservation]
  • Letter to NY officials on scoping process [CAPP-NY]
  • Is Ares Management Building a Pipeline to Nowhere? [Private Equity Closer Look]
  • 23 Talking Points on Pilgrim Pipeline [Protecting Our Waters]
  • Company’s case for proposed ‘Pilgrim’ pipelines undermined by data [Oil Change International]
  • New York State SEQR (State Environmental Quality Review Act) Handbook (note that Chapter 3 addresses Lead Agency matters) [or see .pdf version here]
  • Legal Issues Regarding Regulation of Pipelines Transporting Hazardous Liquids in New Jersey
  • Point-by-Point Rebuttal to Pilgrim’s Claims
  • Pilgrim Pipeline: Lies, Deceptions, Hypocrisies and Delusions [CAPP PowerPoint presentation rebutting Pilgrim myths] … click here for the PDF version
  • Pipeline Threats to NJ Highlands Water Supply
  • Sierra Club Webpage on Pilgrim Pipeline
  • Counterarguments to Pilgrim Claims
  • Reasons to Pass a Resolution Soon
  • Press Release by Chatham Citizens Unite Against Crude Oil Pipeline Through Town
  • The Proposed Pilgrim Pipeline: Cutting a Swath Through New York Communities to Move Bakken Crude [Citizens for Local Power]
  • PSE&G Denies Pilgrim Pipeline Access to Rights-of-Way [NJ Sierra Club press release]
  • Water Withdrawals in New Jersey from 2000 to 2009 [NJ DEP]


Safety of Pipelines and Bakken Oil

  • How the Spectre of Oil Trains is Deceptively Used to Push Pipelines [Desmog Canada]
  • Technology designed to detect U.S. energy pipeline leaks often fails [Reuters]
  • Hazardous Liquid Pipeline Incidents 1986-2009 [Pipeline Safety Trust]
  • Pipeline incidents – data compilations and statistics [Pipeline Safety Trust]
  • Spills of Diluted Bitumen from Pipelines: A Comparative Study of Environmental Fate, Effects, and Response [National Academy of Sciences]
  • Pipeline Incidents With Fire or Explosion [Stephen Q Shafer]
  • Pipeline Incidents Without Fire or Explosion [Stephen Q Shafer]
  • Effects of oil pipeline spills [submission to Highlands Council]
  • What happens when you run oil pipelines under your water supply?  An example from Michigan [VIDEO]  [Motherboard]
  • ANJEC Report: What to do when a pipeline is coming to town [Association of NJ Environmental Commissions]
  • Politico Investigation: ‘Pipelines blow up and people die’ [Politico]
  • Trains and Pipelines — Would One Replace the Other? [CAPP]
  • National Crude Oil Spill Research Site in Bemidji, Minnesota [Minnesota Pollution Control Agency]
  • USGS study links Montana oil spills to arsenic releases in groundwater [Missoulian]
  • America’s Dangerous Pipelines [Center for Biological Diversity]
  • Pipelines Safety and Security: Is It No More Than a Pipe Dream? [The Bent]
  • Hazards of Transporting Bakken Oil [The Wall Street Journal]
  • North Dakota’s Explosive Bakken Oil [The Globe and Mail]
  • The Bakken Boom: East Coast At Risk
  • The Downside of the [Bakken] Oil Boom [The New York Times]
  • Facts on Pipeline Construction [Argonne National Laboratory]
  • Oil Pipeline Leaks in the U.S.
  • There’s Been HOW Many Pipeline Spills in Alberta in The Last Four Months?? [Daily Kos]
  • Report: Pipeline incident occurs every 30 hours in U.S. [Wisconsin Gazette]
  • Natural Gas and Hazardous Liquid Pipelines; A High Level Look [PHMSA presentation in Watchung]
  • List of pipeline accidents in the U.S. in the 21st century [Wikipedia]
  • Pipeline Company Gives Up on Cleaning Its Oil Spill [American Rivers]
  • Keystone Leak Worse Than Thought [U.S. News & World Report]
  • Crude oil leak from pumping station in Illinois [Belleville News-Democrat]


Health Effects of Pipelines and Bakken Oil

  • Medical risks from oil pipelines  [submission to Chatham Township Committee]
  • Health Effects of Pipelines and Oil Spills [North Shore NOPE]


Property Owner’s Rights

  • Memo on Pilgrim’s Misleading Eminent Domain Claims
  • Deny Permission to Survey Your Property
  • Rescind Permission to Survey Your Property
  • Information on Eminent Domain in New Jersey
  • Eminent Domain under New York State Law
  • Landowner’s Guide to Pipelines: Safety, Responsibilities, Your Rights [Pipeline Safety Trust]
  • New Study Finds Oil Pipelines Adversely Affect Property Values [Scaling Green]


Environmental Impacts of the Project

  • Interactive map: Identifying Natural and Cultural Resources along the New Jersey Pilgrim Pipeline Corridor
  • Threatened and Endangered Species Along Pipeline Route
  • Map of Pipeline Impacts on Surface Water Quality
  • Oakland Environmental Commission Report
  • Water Supply to Areas Outside the Highlands Region – map from the Highlands Regional Master Plan


Presentations and Videos

  • “The Proposed Pilgrim Pipeline: What Ulster County Citizens Need To Know” (applicable to others, too!) (YouTube video and slide show) [KingstonCitizens.org]
  • “The Pilgrim Pipeline” – a short video by Zoe DeWitt, Independent Filmmaker
  • Documents by Princeton Hydro, the consulting firm preparing our environmental study of the proposed Pilgrim route in New Jersey:
    • View slides from the June 2017 presentation on environmental and regulatory conflicts along the route.
    • View slides from the September 2016 presentation on assessing wetlands and streams along the proposed route.
    • Watch a video of the June 2016 NJ Sierra Club town hall forum in Montville, NJ describing the environmental study.  Or view the slides from this presentation.
  • Sierra Club Presentation on the pipelines’ threat to water (June 2017)
  • Sierra Club Presentation (September 2016)
  • Pipeline Safety Coalition Presentation on Pilgrim Pipeline– 12/08/14 at Chatham Library
  • Webinar: Public Risk of Pipelines and Infrastructure [Pipeline Safety Coalition] 11/01/16
  • Presentation by Chatham Citizens Opposing Oil Pipeline
  • Pilgrim 101 Webinar (YouTube recording and downloadable slide show)  [Riverkeeper, & Citizens for Local Power]
  • Pilgrim tells an audience that they won’t compensate homeowners in the event of a spill  [George Bochis, V.P. of Pilgrim Pipeline Holdings, at a public forum in Kinnelon NJ]


Downloadable Petitions

  • New Jersey petition
  • New York petition


Brochures and Handouts

  • Speed Activism – a 2-minute “elevator pitch” to encourage people to join the cause against Pilgrim
  • Double Trouble: Stop the Pilgrim Pipelines, Protect the Hudson Valley – 2-page fact sheet (Aug. 2017)
  • Sharable Pilgrim Outreach Toolkit (NY) – a folder with an assortment of useful documents, suitable for printing for tabling events
  • CAPP Event Poster Templates – “Water is Life” – version A, version B
  • Sample Flyer for Distribution to Homes Along Pipeline Route
  • STOP the Pilgrim Pipeline printable tri-fold brochure
  • A Citizen View of Pilgrim Pipeline in NJ – printable tri-fold brochure
  • Orange Co. trifold brochure
  • Fair Warning on Easements … a 2-page explanation of the easement issue, suitable for printing as a flier
  • Pilgrim Primer – NY … another 2-page summary suitable for printing as a flier


Miscellaneous

  • Tips on Writing a Letter to the Editor (LTE)
  • Map of Existing Energy Pipelines in New Jersey [NJ Spotlight; map created by Colleen O’Dea]
  • National Pipeline Mapping System viewer [PHMSA]
  • Map Displays Five Years of Oil Pipeline Spills [Center for Effective Government]
  • Local Government Guide to Pipelines [Pipeline Safety Trust]
  • “Our Risk Their Reward” Logo


Specific Actions to Take

  • Change.org petition against the Pilgrim Pipeline

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