Upcoming events.
Cooper Park Strike Social!
Spread the word to join the Gas Bill Strike and take back our power!
Join us for a weekly gathering to flier around different neighborhoods and then chill out with some snacks, a cool beverage, a fully charged phone and a group of friendly strikers phone banking, art-making and sharing the news far and wide that: We won't pay for National Grid's racist fracked gas pipeline!
Find us gathered at Cooper Park in Greenpoint near Morgan Ave and Maspeth Ave.
Please feel free to bring snacks and drinks to share and a blanket to sit on. Bring a fully charged phone and external charger if you got it.
PREP Session to speak out at Nat Grid’s Public Meeting⚡️
On July 14 National Grid will hold a “public meeting” on their latest report, which is full of fracked gas and climate denial.
Join us for a prep session the day before the meeting so you can be prepared to counter National Grid’s greenwashing and learn about all the ways the community is fighting back including the Gas Bill Strike. ⚡️
Clean Up The Pipeline!
Join Sane Energy, Newtown Creek Alliance, Friends of Cooper Park, St. Nick's Alliance, Red Shed Community Garden to help clean up the area around Cooper Park. Supplies provided by Friends of Cooper Park, but bring some extra work gloves if you got 'em!
We will see the LNG facility we are fighting on the North BK pipeline route while cleaning up our community and then return to the park for a discussion circle about the campaign to stop the pipeline, and our latest effort to STRIKE our Nat Grid gas bills.
Snacks and hand sanitizer will be provided. But feel free to bring something to share if you'd like.
Arrive by 10:30 for the community clean up
Noon for the pipeline discussion circle.
L train to Graham Ave, 100 Maspeth Ave. @ Olive St. East Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Clinton Hill Strike Social!
Join us for a weekly gathering to flier around different neighborhoods and then chill out with a cool beverage and a group of friendly strikers phone banking, art-making and sharing the news far and wide that: We won't pay for National Grid's racist fracked gas pipeline!
⚡️Online Strike Teach-In + Phonebank⚡️
Join us online this Thursday, 7/8, at 6:30pm to learn about the pipeline fight, why we’re striking, how to join the strike - and then stick around to help us get more people to join our strike movement. ⚡️
New Yorkers are going on strike - by withholding $66 on our National Grid gas bills, we refuse to pay to be poisoned by the North Brooklyn Pipeline.
Activists have been fighting against the completion of this pipeline with public protest, legal tactics, community education, and political advocacy for over a year and a half. Now, we go on strike - because we will not pay to be poisoned.
Press Conference: National Grid Gas Bill STRIKE!
Why a Gas Bill Strike? National Grid wants to raise our monthly bills to pay for the North Brooklyn fracked gas pipeline. We must refuse to pay for a pipeline that will harm Black and Brown working class communities and our climate. Join residents and elected officials at a press conference, Tuesday, June 1 at noon at National Grid HQ 1Metrotech Center in Downtown Brooklyn.
Prep For DEC Hearing: No LNG on the NBK Pipeline Tue, March 2@6:30pm
On March 10, 2021 at 6pm, the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation is hosting a public hearing on whether or not to issue National Grid a permit for liquefied and compressed fracked gas infrastructure at 287 Maspeth Ave, adjacent to a residential neighborhood, the apex of the fiercely opposed North Brooklyn Pipeline, and on the shores of the Newtown Creek, a superfund site that the local community has been working for years to bioremediate.
We know this project is totally unjust, illegal, and is charging all of us undemocratically to PAY for it! It's important we all register to show up! But first, let's get organized. We are hosting a prep session to get us registered and prepared to defend our community using carefully researched legal arguments that will give the DEC reasons to DENY National Grid's permit. RSVP
So, what Is a Permit Hearing? A permit hearing offers the public an opportunity to participate in the DEC project review. This document gives an overview of the DEC permit hearing process.
Whether it's your 1st time or 40th time attending a public hearing, preparing for it is important. Join in this prep session to review the facts, re-familiarize yourself with the issue at hand, and establish key arguments to make your public comment as strong and persuasive as can be.
What we'll cover:
Short review:
What is the NBK pipeline and LNG facility
What is National Grid applying to the DEC to do
Why we oppose
What is a public hearing and how to prepare for this one?
How we achieved a hearing and why it’s important
What to expect at the hearing?
What we want to say at the public hearing
What is our goal for the hearing?
How to get yourself registered and ready
Prep For DEC Hearing: No LNG on the NBK Pipeline Sunday, Feb 21 @5pm
Background: On March 10, 2021 at 6pm, the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation is hosting a public hearing on whether or not to issue National Grid a permit for liquefied and compressed fracked gas infrastructure at 287 Maspeth Ave, adjacent to a residential neighborhood, the apex of the fiercely opposed North Brooklyn Pipeline, and on the shores of the Newtown Creek, a superfund site that the local community has been working for years to bioremediate.
We know this project is totally unjust, illegal, and is charging all of us undemocratically to PAY for it! It's important we all register to show up! But first, let's get organized. We are hosting a prep session to get us registered and prepared to defend our community using carefully researched legal arguments that will give the DEC reasons to DENY National Grid's permit.
So, what Is a Permit Hearing? A permit hearing offers the public an opportunity to participate in the DEC project review. This document gives an overview of the DEC permit hearing process.
Whether it's your 1st time or 40th time attending a public hearing, preparing for it is important. Join in this prep session to review the facts, re-familiarize yourself with the issue at hand, and establish key arguments to make your public comment as strong and persuasive as can be.
What we'll cover:
Short review:
What is the NBK pipeline and LNG facility
What is National Grid applying to the DEC to do
Why we oppose
What is a public hearing and how to prepare for this one?
How we achieved a hearing and why it’s important
What to expect at the hearing?
What we want to say at the public hearing
What is our goal for the hearing?
How to get yourself registered and ready
The Head of the Black Snake: No LNG on the North Brooklyn Pipeline
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIkd-2urDMsGNyEeqZh1MT_0HEvbkD1hne0
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Right now, National Grid, the corporate utility covering part of NYC and Long Island wants to raise our rates, the highest in the nation, to expand more fossil fuels, including the North Brooklyn (MRI) Pipeline and LNG expansion on Newtown Creek in Greenpoint, Brooklyn in an opaque process in a boardroom. We know that more fossil fuels anywhere puts the climate at risk for everyone. Their request to invest our rate-payer dollars into more fossil fuels goes against what our community wants, and goes against our climate law. We must flood the system with public comments like they have never seen before. Come learn about it, and learn how to TAKE ACTION!
Online Teach In!
Hop into the campaign! Join the NoNBK Pipeline Coalition for an online Teach-In on Saturday, Nov 7th from 4pm-6pm. We will cover the basic info about what we are fighting for and against, what we have accomplished so far, our timeline, and how to plug in! Register for the meeting here: https://actionnetwork.org/events/no-nbk-pipeline-teach-in/
No NBK weekly call for organizers
If you would like to be a part of the campaign in an organizing capacity, please send us an email to noNBKpipeline@gmail.com to schedule a discussion with the group.