2 Key Legislators' Views of Pipeline

“Constituents do not want it. They don’t want anything like it in their backyard. God forbid it blows up...are we prepared to contain such a fire..is Millennium prepared? “ Yet, in the very same interview conducted last week, she said, “I was able to take a ride up to where they want to put it and let me tell you it’s miles and miles into that land up there. No one should be able to hear it, see it or smell it. Unless they are planning to leak out gas, I can’t imagine anyone smelling anything. It’s well off the beaten path. And, from what I understand, this is all processed gas..it’s been refined. It’s the same kind of gas as you get in your kitchen..like when you turn your stove on. I am not pro fracking and not for contaminating our aquifers, our water, our environment but this is already gas that is going down a pipeline and it’s being compressed to push it further down​.”

Samuelson, at the invitation of and led by Hook, had taken Rajsz and County Legislature Chair Luis Alvarez on a recent tour of the Hancock facility for a planned “blowdown” event. (Hook said last week that Millennium is adding a second compressor there for more horsepower to push the gas downstate).

Samuelson said that, about two years ago, he also arranged a tour for Dan Silna and his wife, Joan, owners of the new Eldred Preserve Project -- since he said that they had heard about community concerns and wanted to learn more about the compressor station firsthand.