{"id":1711,"date":"2024-10-29T11:06:12","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T15:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/rhodeisland\/?p=1711"},"modified":"2024-10-31T11:07:38","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T15:07:38","slug":"ri-legislators-cari-members-oppose-expansion-of-fossil-fuel-infrastructure-in-our-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/rhodeisland\/ri-legislators-cari-members-oppose-expansion-of-fossil-fuel-infrastructure-in-our-state\/","title":{"rendered":"RI Legislators, CARI Members Oppose Expansion of Fossil Fuel Infrastructure in Our State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today, a group of Rhode Island\u2019s climate justice organizations rallied at the State House in opposition to Enbridge\u2019s proposed Project Maple fracked-gas pipeline expansion. The groups hand-delivered a letter addressed to Governor Daniel McKee and the Department of Environmental Management. In total, eleven State Representatives and three State Senators signed on opposing the project. The petition-signers and community members present at the rally demand the denial of all further Project Maple permits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Project Maple is a state-crossing gas expansion project proposed by Enbridge, owner of the interstate \u201cAlgonquin\u201d gas pipelines. If approved, emissions from Project Maple are estimated to equal seven coal plants, threatening to erase all of Rhode Island\u2019s emission-reduction progress.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite intense local opposition, construction has already begun on an initial phase of the project doubling the pipeline\u2019s size from the east side of the Sakonnet River \u2013 in the town of Little Compton \u2013 to the west side of the River \u2013 in the town of Portsmouth. Earlier this month, during work on the Sakonnet River pipeline replacement, toxic drilling fluid <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1vsXI44i7VdiNnc0TnzSxHYPGi6CqQfZN\/view?usp=sharing\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">leaked<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> into a wetland in Portsmouth.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the past ten years, Rhode Island has been at the forefront of the movement to stop pipeline expansions. The town of Burrillville, notably, has fiercely resisted previous pipeline expansion proposals. A massive statewide movement arose in 2015 following the proposal of a large power plant along the pipeline\u2019s route. This movement continues today, as groups across the state are ready to oppose Project Maple.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/steveahlquist.substack.com\/p\/climate-groups-called-on-governor\">The rally was covered by local media<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Activists delivered a letter signed by RI lawmakers to Governor McKee and DEM Director Gray demanding denial of project permits<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1206,"featured_media":1606,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/rhodeisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/rhodeisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/rhodeisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/rhodeisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/rhodeisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/rhodeisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/rhodeisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/rhodeisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/rhodeisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/rhodeisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}