NED Pipeline - Community Health Forum On Nassau Compressor Station

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Dave Lucas

Published September 30, 2015 at 4:08 PM EDT

Concerned citizens living on Burden Lake and in the surrounding towns of Nassau and Sand Lake are holding a community forum tonight to fight the proposed location of a compressor station in Nassau.

A 41,000 horsepower compressor station that would push gas through the proposed Northeast Energy Direct natural gas pipeline would be built along Clark's Chapel Road in Nassau, less than 2,000 feet from Burden Lake. Cherisse Young is a member of the Save Burden Lake Group, concerned about the impact such an installation would have on local residents.

"These large compressor stations have very significant health impacts that have yet to be studied."

The meeting is being held tonight at 7 at the Burden Lake Country Club in Averill Park.

Country Club in Averill Park.

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Dave Lucas is WAMC’s Capital Region Bureau Chief. Born and raised in Albany, he’s been involved in nearly every aspect of local radio since 1981. Before joining WAMC, Dave was a reporter and anchor at WGY in Schenectady. Prior to that he hosted talk shows on WYJB and WROW, including the 1999 series of overnight radio broadcasts tracking the JonBenet Ramsey murder case with a cast of callers and characters from all over the world via the internet. In 2012, Dave received a Communicator Award of Distinction for his WAMC news story "Fail: The NYS Flood Panel," which explores whether the damage from Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee could have been prevented or at least curbed. Dave began his radio career as a “morning personality” at WABY in Albany.

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