Dangerous Neighbors: Pipelines, Compressor …

1 Dangerous Neighbors: Pipelines, Compressor Stations, and Environmental Injustice Introduction: As natural gas continues to be touted as the transition fuel of choice, the industry s extraction and rush to build infrastructure and its consequences have been coming under increased scrutiny. Natural gas pipelines and Compressor stations are associated with specific risks and health problems, which frequently bring the most harm to low income communities and communities of color, often given little or no choice about hosting gas infrastructure in their communities. Natural Gas infrastructure What is it really delivering? In an article entitled The Networked Infrastructure of Fossil Capitalism: Implications of the new pipeline Debates for Environmental Justice in Canada 1, Dayna Scott describes fossil fuel pipelines and Compressor stations as infrastructure that delivers environmental injustice by changing the physical properties and configurations of communities, and taking away community choice for the type of energy in which they want to invest.

1 Dangerous Neighbors: Pipelines, Compressor Stations, and Environmental Injustice Introduction: As natural gas continues to be touted as the transition fuel of choice, the industry’s extraction and rush

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