Brooklyn Waterfront Still Has (Trans)Gas

Tuesday, October 31, 2006, by Robert

If you thought that proposed power TransGas Energy power plant on the Williamsburg waterfront was dead, think again. The 1100 megawatt giant is still alive enough to merit another protest. (Last time we heard about it, TransGas was offering offering $1 billion for the West Side rail yards, if it could build the plant.) This, from the stopthepowerplant.org website:

While our campaign has put TGE on the ropes, the lengthy legal battle against the power plant siting is not over. The final result depends on the Governor's appointed Siting Board....The Greenpoint Williamsburg Waterfront Task Force (GWWTF) maintains its strong opposition to this power plant siting despite TGE's recent attempts to lure the community with unenforceable affordable housing offers and tall tales about better community air quality.

We're going to guess that with North8, Northside Piers and The Edge going up just to the south, not to mention parks, that burial of Ye Olde Power Plant is a formality.
· Stop the Power Plant Website [stopthepowerplant.org]
· City Buying More Land for Parks in Williamsburg? [Curbed]
· West Side Stadium Race: Down the Stretch They Come [Curbed]

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I can't understand why no one's mentioned red hook? Come on- pour all your shit on us...

Williamsburg, think of all the *jobs* the plant will generate...

Do it for the sake of your community! Come on Power plant!

By tj at October 31, 2006 3:31 PM

williamsburgh could use some radioactivity

it will make all the gags from ohio feel like they are back in the boonies

By barbara oockran at October 31, 2006 3:41 PM

radioactivity? "gags from ohio"? boonies??? What does any of this have to do with a natural gas plant in Williamsburg? Can you fit more irrelevant non-sequitors into two sentences? Are you trying to make an argument or be clever?

By anomalous at October 31, 2006 3:59 PM

hey tj and oocran: we got plenty of bad stuff on the newtown creek. if you want some Exxon-Mobil benzene and methane, just come on down for a mug full. but let our east river be something that we can all enjoy. please?

By anonymous at October 31, 2006 4:00 PM

Believe me, it wasn't these knuckleheaded, half-assed activists that put TGE on the ropes. It was Bloomberg and Doctoroff.

Hey GWWTF, don't break your arms patting yourselves on the back!

By Mike the Laborer at October 31, 2006 5:30 PM

Mike the Laborer states that half activists didn't put TGE on the ropes, Bloomberg and Doctoroff did.
Well, who do you think put Bloomberg and Doctoroff on the ropes about that decision during the rezoning, Santa Claus? The fact is that this community could very well end up with both, mega development AND a power plant. But thanks to those activists the community's got the City on their side and a decent shot of beating the power plant. Did you know that this is the first time in US history & Article X that the examiners EVER made a recommendation not to site a power plant. That's a major accomplishment.

By Laura at October 31, 2006 8:45 PM

williamsburg is a piece of shit = and everybody knows it.

By Anonymous at October 31, 2006 9:29 PM

thanks for adding so much to the discussion, anonymous!

By anomalous at October 31, 2006 10:23 PM

mike, got nothing but love for the laborers, but it really was the community that set this plant up for a fall before the rezoning plan was announced. spitzer will KO the plant.

By thfs at October 31, 2006 10:23 PM

10.

Laura and Thfs - you're wrong. THe activists had nothing to do with it. They didn't pressure Bloomberg and Doctoroff. They were already against it because Doctoroff wanted this site as a part of the olympics plan. That's why he was against it. I believe it was going to be the site for archery. Once the olympics died, it was too late, the plant owner was already on Doctoroff's bad side. This was all about Doctoroff and had nothing to do with any response to community pressure.

By Frankie at November 1, 2006 9:05 AM