·          Power plant should stay out of the neighborhood because it is already environmentally overburdened. 

·         This is an area that if we have power plants emitting pollutants all be it according to the specs better than other power plants, it’s still emitting pollutants and it’s not something that would be beneficial for this community.

·         The community is bounded to the west and the north by the Con Edison East 14^th Street plant, which is right opposite our property, and several facilities to the north in Long Island City and Astoria, which is just across the river/creek from us.

·         It is very scary to think of yet another huge polluted facility coming into the neighborhood and very much not something that people in this neighborhood want.

·         This community is considered by the DDC to be the most environmentally burdened community in the United States, Community District One and it is just inappropriate to have something that will add 2,000 tons of emissions a year to our district.

·         Concerned about effects on air quality and further pollution of waterfront and our health.

·         Would pollute not only Brooklyn, but depending on prevailing wind, the whole west side of Manhattan.

Traffic Pollution:

·         High levels of commercial traffic already exist in the area.

Radiation:

·         We have the only radioactive transfer station in New York City, it’s called Radiac, along with five power plants.  The Hudson area plant, which is the dirtiest in New York City, a type of 44 megawatt generator, a 799.9 megawatt barge to come on-line in early 2002, a power generator at the Domino Sugar facility, another power plant in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, 220 megawatt.

·         Worried about potential large amounts of radiation.

Waste Management:

·         Plastic garbage bags and confiscated marijuana are burned in this area.

·         In the past Greenpoint incinerator processed garbage from every borough.

·         Newton Sewage Treatment Plant, which when it rains and the sewage lines back up, we have a bad odor of sewage.

·         Greenpoint’s environmentally overburdened with transfer stations, the largest water pollution plant, the largest oil spill, 17 million gallons of oil under our houses and this plant would make things worse.

·         Medical waste was coming in from Staten Island.

·         There is more solid waste in this area than anywhere else in the City of New York.

·         Small power plant just went in area recently. We don’t need another power plant, let alone one this large.

·         What we need is input for better things and to reverse all the dumping grounds that we’ve been used as.

·         The air quality and noise studies will be evaluating ambient conditions, which include the current emissions and noise impacts from existing facilities.  Applicable law assures that the plant’s incremental impact will be insignificant.  Plant design alternatives are being investigated with a view towards having the design compatible with other neighborhood structures and aesthetics and considered a visual amenity, not a burden.  In addition, Bayside’s truck traffic creates ground level concentrations of a variety of pollutants from burning diesel fuel.  Noise and traffic congestion from the trucks will also be significantly reduced by the plant’s operation and Bayside’s closure.  Thus, the plant will relieve certain existing neighborhood burdens.

Because of the TGE plant’s high efficiencies, the provision of steam and electricity at lower cost than older, existing facilities is also expected to reduce the operation of polluting plants.

·         The comments about radiation do not apply to the proposed project, which is not a nuclear facility and does not produce any radiation.

·         Facility will be designed and operated in such a way as not to be an environmental burden, even though it will be an industrial facility.   It will not serve as a transfer station and will not produce odors. One of the project goals is to “reverse” the condition of the site by cleaning up a contaminated site and replacing an oil storage depot with a facility that relies primarily on natural gas and state-of-the-art pollution control technologies.  Its own solid waste generation will be minimal.