Thank you for your advocacy to stop the expansion of the Brookfield Compressor station. Over the last two years, hundreds of Sierra Club members like you have joined together to learn about the harmful impacts of gas facilities like the Brookfield Compressor Station—you’ve signed petitions, you’ve made phone calls to Governor Lamont and the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP), and more. Now, we are asking you to speak up again.

 

Connecticut DEEP is accepting public comments on its tentative decision to issue permits to expand the Brookfield compressor station. If approved, the Brookfield compressor station will double the turbines at the facility and push an additional 125 million cubic feet of methane gas per day through the pipeline. 

 

DEEP needs to hear from you about why you oppose expanding gas, and this facility in Brookfield:

• It's bad for the climate – We must reduce greenhouse gas emissions to mitigate the devastating impacts of climate change, not increase them.

• It's bad for clean air – Fairfield County has the worst air quality on the east coast, DEEP must decrease air pollution, not add more.

• Connecticut doesn’t need or use the gas – The gas travels through Connecticut to New York on a pipeline that runs through New Milford, Brookfield, Newtown, Monroe, Shelton, and Milford.

• We deserve better – Our safety, health and climate future should matter more than a giant energy company’s desire to profit.

 

Comments are due by September 16; comments should be sent to james.grillo@ct.gov.  Your comments make a difference. We’ve developed this comment guide to help you draft and submit your comments. 

 

Additionally, if you want to read more about some of our news about this issue over the last few years, here’s a selection of material:

• August 1, 2025: Sierra Club press release on DEEP tentatively issuing permits

• April 2025: Sierra Club Connecticut Releases Infrared Footage of Polluting Gas Facilities

• July 2024: Study of the Potential Impacts of the Expanded Iroquois Compressor Station in Brookfield, CT

• April 2024: Groups deliver letter to Governor Lamont and Commissioner Dykes opposing the expansion of a fracked gas compressor station in Brookfield

 

We will keep you posted on next steps, including a possible public hearing.

 

Thank you for your advocacy!

 

Samantha Dynowski is State Director of Sierra Club Connecticut.