No Pipeline Expansion
(NOPE) Northeast
Are you a community member, advocate, or organization in the Northeast? Join our coalition to start fighting the expansion of fossil fuels across our region.
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Who We Are
No Pipeline Expansion (NOPE) Northeast, formerly the Stop Project Maple Coalition, is a multi-state coalition of 100+ community organizations opposed to gas pipeline expansion projects in the Northeast.
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Our Work
Across the Northeast, fossil fuel companies are proposing costly and polluting fossil fuel expansions, which are harming the health of our communities, driving climate change, and costing ratepayers. Under the Trump Administration, these harmful projects have only escalated, but our states are doing little to oppose them. We're here to change that.
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NOPE Northeast originally formed to oppose Project Maple, which was the proposed expansion of an Enbridge-owned gas pipeline in New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. Since then, the scope of our work has expanded to include other expansions of pipelines and related infrastructure impacting our region. These include new compressor stations proposed by TC Energy in New York and Connecticut, as well as opposition to state collaboration with the Trump administration on expanding gas infrastructure such as the cancelled Constitution Pipeline.
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Stop Gas Expansion
Fighting fossil fuels across the Northeast.
Learn more about the fossil fuel projects that the coalition is opposing across Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
Enbridge owned:
Project Beacon
Enbridge has unveiled “Project Beacon,” a proposal to expand the so-called “Algonquin” Pipeline, a name appropriated from the Indigenous people of the region, by installing larger methane gas pipelines and new pipe routes. This is an expansion of the same pipeline that RARE is expanding. The project was announced immediately after a meeting between Enbridge and the Trump Administration. More info here.
Impacting: NY, CT, RI, MA
Enbridge owned:
Project RARE
RARE would enlarge Enbridge pipelines in Rhode Island (Cumberland, Little Compton, Tiverton and Burrillville), Massachusetts (Mendon, Bellingham, Franklin and Wrentham), and include "software modifications" at a compressor station located in Cromwell, CT. This is an expansion of the same pipeline as Project Beacon.
Impacting: CT, RI, MA
Williams owned:
Constitution Pipeline
The Constitution Pipeline is proposed by the fossil fuel company Williams. The pipeline would run from Pennsylvania to Schoharie County, New York, where it connects to other pipelines running all the way North to Canada, as well as throughout the Northeast. This massive project was previously halted by New York, but has been revived under the Trump Administration, even though it is costly, polluting, and unneeded. More info here.
Impacting: PA, NY
Williams owned:
NESE Pipeline
The Williams NESE Pipeline is a new pipeline running from New Jersey to Long Island, New York. This pipeline has been approved by the environmental departments in both New Jersey and New York. There are legal cases underway to try and prevent it from moving forward. More info here.
Impacting: NJ, NY
State owned:
Capitol Area System
The Connecticut Department of Administrative Services has plans to update Capitol Area System heating and cooling plant. Hartford is already burdened with poor air quality. Residents are running an opposition campaign demanding that the Department of Administrative Services properly study and pursue clean alternatives to fossil fuels, specifically a network geothermal system.
Impacting: CT
Enbridge owned:
Cape Cod Canal Replacement & Expansion
Due to Massachusetts Department of Transportation work on the Sagamore and Bourne bridges crossing the Cape Cod Canal, the bridges will no longer be able to host the old National Grid gas pipelines that are attached to the Enbridge gas transmission line. In this replacement project, the Enbridge pipelines will now cross under the Cape Cod Canal, installed via horizontal directional drilling, which can have extremely damaging environmental impacts. To comply with Massachusetts climate laws, this project should not include an expansion of pipeline capacity, yet the plan is to replace 10″ pipeline with 16″ and 18″ pipeline at a higher pressure (750 psig instead of 270), which will add more fossil fuels and emissions.
Impacting: MA
TC Energy owned:
Brookfield Compressor Station & Wright Interconnect
The TC Energy Pipeline runs from Canada, through New York and Connecticut. In Connecticut, we are particularly focused on TC Energy’s plan to double the size of the Compressor Station in Brookfield, which would add a significant number of emissions at this station located only 1900 feet from the local middle school. We are currently awaiting a decision on the final air permit for this project.
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In addition, TC Energy has filed with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to interconnect their pipeline with the proposed Constitution Pipeline. If this moves forward, it would increase the amount of gas flowing through New England as a whole. More info here.
Impacting: CT
Eversource owned:
SERP Project
Eversource proposed a new gas pipeline (Southeast Resilience Project) under the Connecticut River to interconnect and expand their gas infrastructure. This expansion would impact state parks in Middletown, East Hampton, and Higganum. Eversource filed this proposal with the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. This expansion would cost ratepayers while harming the ecosystem. Eversource will need to file further permits to move forward with this project.
Impacting: CT