History
2011
Sane Energy Project is founded to oppose the Spectra Pipeline, the first of several high-volume hydraulic fractured gas pipelines slated to enter New York City. We are the first group to connect the dots in the larger movement to ban drilling in New York State that all fracked gas infrastructure poses an immediate threat to the health of communities.
2014
YOU ARE HERE MAP, our groundbreaking, interactive, online map of fracking infrastructure in New York State, is launched. The map makes visible –- in one place –– the entirety of existing and proposed fracked gas infrastructure, and connects users to the local grassroots group fighting each project.
2015
Governor Andrew Cuomo rejects a proposal to build the Port Ambrose LNG port, a liquefied natural gas terminal that would have been built in the waters off New York and New Jersey. Sane Energy is the driving force in the movement opposing the port and is the most vocal group about both the dangers of LNG and the benefits of offshore wind.
2016
Sane Energy works with local residents and community groups to organize Resist Spectra, a direct action campaign to halt the Spectra “Algonquin” pipeline - a 42” high pressure fracked gas pipeline constructed just 105 feet away from critical safety infrastructure at Indian Point nuclear power plant where spent radioactive nuclear fuel rods remain.
2018
Sane Energy organizes with Dutchess Co. farmers and rural community members to oppose Cricket Valley fracked gas power plant being constructed atop The Great Swamp, New York's largest freshwater wetlands.
2019
Sane Energy alerts residents in North Brooklyn to the construction of National Grid’s North Brooklyn Pipeline and begins building a movement opposing the pipeline.
2020
After three years of powerful advocacy led by Sane Energy and other groups, New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation denies a key permit required to begin construction of the Williams Pipeline, which would have transported fracked gas from Pennsylvania through New Jersey, crossing under New York Harbor and the Atlantic Ocean, and terminating off the Rockaways in New York City.
2021
Sane Energy Project and the Cooper Park Resident Council file a lawsuit against New York State and National Grid over the liquefied fracked gas (LNG) facility expansion at the apex of the North Brooklyn Pipeline route.
