A dangerous natural-gas compressor station could be your neighbor! Speak out at the Public Hearing! Tuesday September 12 7:00 pm. RSVP HERE
Dominion, the company that pipes fracked gas through Maryland, needs a zoning Special Exception to build a dangerous gas compressor station on Barry’s Hill Rd. None of the gas would serve homes in our area.
- Compressor stations are dangerous. Not only do they emit harmful pollution, they often catch fire or explode.
- Our area is just not compatible with this industrial facility: several buildings, 24,000 horsepower gas-compressors fueled by burning gas, and two 50-foot exhaust stacks on over 6 permanently cleared acres.
- Noisy “blowdowns” will regularly test emergency procedures by venting huge amounts of the potent green-house gas methane that also contains volatile organic compounds.
If you agree, or are concerned about safety and air pollution, please speak up at the hearing (after the lawyers and witnesses finish).
Please note: there is a chance the hearing date will be moved earlier.
Keep informed at www.ampcreeks.org ; or call Bonnie Bick, 301-752-9612
More:
Southern MD - Information on the big pipeline FRACK - GAS compressor station battle happening on the boundary line between Prince George's and Charles County.
Dominion has applied to the Charles County Board of Appeals for a "special exception" in an area in Bryans Road zoned resource conservation.
Dominion wants to put in a 24,000 horsepower gas compressor station, with two 50-foot exhaust stacks. The compressor station would be fueled by fracked gas pipeline that is already in place - the pipeline runs under the Potomac and hooks up to disputed Cove Point Export facility that is in the process of being constructed WITHOUT the required environmental or safety studies. (Governor Hogan refuses to require the safety study.)
Dominion says Charles Compressor Station is necessary to support the new, not yet constructed Mattawoman Energy Power Plant proposed in Brandywine (frack gas power plant-one of five clustered in an area that includes Waldorf and creates a 15 mile radius frack gas sacrifice zone. http://money.cnn.com/video/news/2017/07/25/brandywine-maryland-power-plants.cnnmoney/index.html
Charles Compressor Station would create a safety, noise and air pollution problem - in the Bryans Road/Accokeek - area and facilitate the Panda-Mattawoman Energy (frack) gas power plant in Brandywine. Noisy "blow-downs" would regularly test emergency procedures by venting huge amounts of the potent green-house gas methane, that also contains volatile organic compounds into our air.
If this project proceeds, it will also change the historic character of our area and will suppress the value of homes and the land.
This area has received great federal investment. The Marshall Hall area of Piscataway National Park is very close to the proposed project...the other side of Barry's Hill Road, which is often flooded and is of substandard width, divides Dominion from federal property. Right next door, the Maoyone Reserve, which was created to help save the view shed of Mount Vernon, has been protecting that view for almost a half a century. This compressor station proposal would have a negative quality of life impact on those citizens who have long volunteered to protect George Washington's view of the Maryland side of the Potomac.