North Brooklyn Gas Pipeline

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North Brooklyn Gas Pipeline, also known as Metropolitan Reliability Infrastructure (MRI) Project, is a cancelled fossil gas pipeline that would have run through Brooklyn, NYC, United States.

Location

The pipeline was proposed to run from Brownsville, Brooklyn to Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NYC.

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Project details

• Operator: National Grid
• Owner: National Grid
• Parent company: National Grid plc
• Capacity:
• Length: 7 mi
• Diameter: 30 in
• Status: Cancelled
• Start year:
• Cost:
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• Associated infrastructure:

Background

The pipeline project was proposed to improve Brooklyn's fossil gas system by increasing "safety, reliability, and operational flexibility."

Construction started in the spring of 2017 and went until November 2020, at which point four of five stages were successfully installed. As of 15 January 2021, there appear to be no updates to the National Grid website for the project.

Community activism has indefinitely halted construction of phase five through Williamsburg and Greenpoint, Brooklyn. If completed, the pipeline would directly connect to a LNG depot on Newtown Creek that National Grid had been trying to expand, with the capacity to send out 290 MMcf/d of LNG. The activism began in November 2019 when Brooklyn residents learned that construction was already two years along and a Brooklyn newspaper notified residents of a coming rate hike in energy bills due to the project.