by Sam Dallaire | Sep 30, 2020 | 8th Congressional District, News & Updates, Protecting Our Environment
WHDH-TV/ State House News Service Crews at a natural gas compressor station in Weymouth triggered an emergency shutdown and vented an unspecified amount of natural gas Wednesday morning, marking the second such incident in three weeks. The incident prompted new calls...
by Sam Dallaire | Sep 30, 2020 | 8th Congressional District, News & Updates, Protecting Our Environment
WBUR By Miriam Wasser For the second time this month, something triggered the Weymouth Natural Gas Compressor Station’s emergency shutdown system and caused an “unplanned release” of at least 10,000 standard cubic feet (scf) of natural gas...
by Sam Dallaire | Sep 30, 2020 | 8th Congressional District, News & Updates, Protecting Our Environment
The Boston Globe By Jeremy C. Fox The state’s two Democratic senators and a South Shore congressman called for the federal government to block the planned opening Thursday of a controversial gas compression station in Weymouth after equipment failures led to emergency...
by Sam Dallaire | Sep 30, 2020 | 8th Congressional District, News & Updates, Protecting Our Environment
WBZ-TV BOSTON (CBS) – Senators Ed Markey and Elizabeth Warren are calling for an immediate stop of work at the Weymouth gas compressor station. It comes after another emergency shutdown Wednesday. “An emergency leak is unacceptable, and we ask that you fulfill your...
by Sam Dallaire | Sep 24, 2020 | 8th Congressional District, National Security, News & Updates, Veterans
Brockton Enterprise & Patriot Ledger By Cody Shepard A congressional delegation, including three representatives from Massachusetts, traveled to the U.S. Army’s Fort Hood base in Texas last weekend to investigate an “alarming number” of deaths at the base this...
by Sam Dallaire | Sep 24, 2020 | 8th Congressional District, National Security, News & Updates, Veterans
WBUR By Quincy Walters Massachusetts Congressional lawmakers are still pushing for answers, and reform, at the Fort Hood Army base in Texas after the death of a Brockton soldier who was stationed there. In August, Sgt. Elder Fernandes was found dead, hanging from...
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