[Fredslist] Gotham Power Breakfast welcomes Suzanne Mattei, Esq.

[Corey Bearak]

Please join me, my co-Chair Vincent Chirico and Group Coordinator ROb Giamboi in welcoming to Gotham Power Breakfast,

	Suzanne Mattei, 

an attorney and policy expert with Lookout Hills Public Policy Associates.  Suzanne enjoys over 30 years of experience in environmental public health good government and nonprofit law and policy. 

I enjoyed working with Suzanne during our prior careers in public service and was glad that Annamarie Bondi-Stoddard re-connected us earlier this year.  

Suzanne is part of a team of seasoned experts and innovative problem solvers (I know them all!) who can help you target and achieve your goals for social justice and effective government.  Last month the NY Times extensively quoted Suzanne, in this article, New York Rejects Keystone-Like Pipeline in Fierce Battle Over the State’s Energy Future <https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/15/nyregion/williams-pipeline-gas-energy.html> (Please view article excerpts quoting Suzanne below my email signature.).

Contact Suzanne (copied on this intro email) at (646) 465-3635.  

View Suzanne's Gotham profile <https://www.gothamnetworking.com/Suzanne> at https://www.gothamnetworking.com/Suzanne. 

And please make plans to ride the circuit to the next Gotham Power Breakfast, Wednesday, June 26, 8:30 a.m. at Maison Kayser in downtown Brooklyn.  

There you can meet Suzanne and other members of this growing Gotham group. 

RSVP here <https://www.gothamnetworking.com/m/events/view/Power-Breakfast-Group-Meeting-2018-12-11-2> (https://www.gothamnetworking.com/m/events/view/Power-Breakfast-Group-Meeting-2018-12-11-2).

Corey B. Bearak, Esq.
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From: smattei at nyc.rr.com
Subject: NY Times article on Williams pipeline decision day
Date: May 15, 2019 at 8:22:39 AM EDT
To: Corey Bearak <bearak at me.com>

NY Times excerpts:

While the pipeline has not attracted anywhere near the attention of the Keystone XL or Dakota Access pipelines in the Great Plains region, which carry oil, supporters and opponents alike said the gas project could be similarly consequential....Last month, President Trump signed two executive orders designed to speed up the construction of pipelines and make it more difficult for states to reject them.

“This is precedent setting. These projects are happening all over the country,” said Suzanne Mattei, the former head of the New York City branch of the state’s environmental conservation agency who opposes the pipeline. “It’s not just about the energy future of New York, but it’s really about the energy future of the entire country.”

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Ms. Mattei, the former New York City environmental official who now works as an attorney at a public policy firm, was commissioned to write a report on the proposed pipeline by 350.org, an activist group that seeks to end the use of all fossil fuels. Her research, she said, showed that the claim of unmet gas demand was “a lot of smoke and mirrors.”

She pointed to a company presentation by Williams last year that predicted that several states in the Northeast could “experience flat to negative gas-demand growth” in the next 20 years as renewable energy proliferated. And while National Grid said that it would need to supply 8,000 new natural gas hookups each year, Ms. Mattei said the number appeared speculative and inflated.

Chris Stockton, a Williams spokesman, said national trends did not capture demand for particular states or regions, and that New York’s economic development plans set it apart from the energy needs of other states.

John Bruckner, the president of National Grid New York, called the 350.org report “misleading” and said it “misrepresents many essential facts related to the need for natural gas in our region.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/15/nyregion/williams-pipeline-gas-energy.html 

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