Governor Baker Halt Weymouth Compressor Station Construction Due to COVID-19 Public Health Emergency

In the midst of an unprecedented global pandemic, Enbridge Inc. wants to rush construction of a massive fracked gas compressor station in environmental justice neighborhoods in the Fore River Basin of eastern Massachusetts.

Fracked gas compressor stations are dirty and contribute to additional air pollution in a community already overburdened with industrial air pollution. It isn't just reckless to push construction of a massive fracked gas compressor station in the middle of a crisis like this -- it also puts vulnerable workers and environmental justice communities at serious risk from COVID-19

Governor Baker has rightfully taken steps needed to protect communities across Massachusetts during this pandemic. But permitting Enbridge to sidestep the precautions we’re all following, including moving hundreds of out of state workers into environmental justice communities in the Fore River Basin, needlessly endangers local community residents.

If enough of us raise our voices to call on Governor Baker to protect Massachusetts’s communities, he'll be able to lead where the Trump administration hasn't and show that allowing construction like this to continue is dangerous for everyone's health. Despite the governor’s “stay at home” advisory, Enbridge is continuing construction in Massachusetts, so the outcry has to happen now.

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Thank you, Governor Baker, for taking the COVID-19 pandemic seriously and instating a statewide stay-at-home advisory to stop the spread of the virus. It is critical that you protect vulnerable communities around the Weymouth Compressor from an influx of additional people coming from across the country working on the compressor station. Please declare the Weymouth Compressor Station construction as non-essential during this pandemic and halt the influx of workers that could overburden already strained healthcare resources. For the health and safety of workers, and residents of the Fore River Basin and the entire South Shore all construction activity should be immediately halted in the face of the public health threat from the novel coronavirus. Enbridge has brought hundreds of out-of-state workers into communities of the Fore River Basin who are already overburdened with chronic respiratory illnesses, where hospitals cannot be burdened with any additional strain on their already limited capacity to provide care to those infected by the coronavirus during the surge. A national emergency has been declared and a growing number of cities and companies are delaying non-essential construction projects -- a fracked gas compressor station for export is far from essential for communities in the basin being put in harm’s way. It is critical that you declare The Weymouth Compressor Station construction “non-essential” and put construction of this dirty fracked gas compressor station on hold.

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