Did you know that a new pipeline brings fracked gas into Greenwich Village?

Interesting Talk piece in this week’s NYer. Here’s the teaser

HAZARD DEPT.

UNDERFOOT

BY NOVEMBER 25, 2013

November 25, 2013 Issue
On a recent Saturday morning, Corey Johnson sat in a downtown café trying to persuade his neighbors that hydrofracking isn’t an issue that just concerns people in the boonies. Johnson, who is thirty-one, was recently elected to replace Christine Quinn as the City Council member from the Third District, which includes Hell’s Kitchen, Chelsea, and the West Village. He was spreading the word about a brand-new pipeline that pumps fracked gas directly into the West Village. . . .

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https://www.newyorker.com/talk/2013/11/25/131125ta_talk_marantz