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