by Joseph Wendelken...
To those Howard Beach residents who believed that the orange jet fuel line stanchions in front of their homes signaled their vulnerability to a devastating terror plot, a Buckeye Partners official delivered a clear message on Monday night: “The pipeline will not blow up.”Originating in Linden, N.J., Buckeye lines deliver fuel to Newark Liberty Airport, Pennsylvania, upstate New York, Long Island City, LaGuardia Airport, western Long Island and Kennedy International Airport. Kennedy’s significance to the city as a transportation hub and the enormous quantity of fuel it receives daily — over 3.5 million gallons — made the pipeline the target of four alleged terrorists arrested last month.
Roy Haase Jr., a Buckeye senior manager, said during his presentation in the basement of St. Barnabas Lutheran Church that amid the headline-grabbing hysteria, several misconceptions about the pipeline emerged. Among them were that it runs under homes, that it is unregulated and that it could explode if its liquid petroleum were sparked.
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Times Ledger - JFK Fuel Lines Safe: Operator:
by Howard Koplowitz
Howard Beach residents should not fear the system of petroleum pipelines that runs through Howard Beach and ends at John F. Kennedy Airport because it is packed with safety measures, an official from the pipeline company said Monday.
Roy Haase, the manager of right of way and permits for Buckeye Pipeline Co., tried to dispel myths about the pipeline during a 15-minute presentation at a town hall meeting with Howard Beach residents at St. Barnabas Church that was sponsored by City Councilman Joseph Addabbo (D-Howard Beach). He zeroed in on what he called falsehoods that the pipeline is not safe and that it runs underneath homes."There are a lot of misconceptions about the pipeline system," Haase said, referring to media coverage of the threat to the pipeline. "There were things said that went way beyond reason."
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Queens Sun Courier: Company Says Jet Fuel Pipeline is Safe...
by Liz Skalka...
A representative from the company that owns and operates the pipeline to John F. Kennedy Airport (JFK) tried to calm apprehensive Howard Beach residents on July 9 by presenting safety points about the structure and insisting that it is safe and relatively insusceptible to tampering.
However, residents who attended the event at St. Barnabas Church on Monday, July 9 were not entirely convinced. Several posed questions about the red warning markers located near homes close to the jet fuel pipeline’s path, and how the community would be affected if the structure that runs like an artery through parts of Queens were once again the target of a terror plot.
Some residents said the Town Hall meeting did not provide them with piece of mind or any new information.
“I don’t feel any safer or less safe,” said Anne Vigilarolo, a lifelong Howard Beach resident. “We don’t know anything we didn’t know before. What would blow it up? They don’t know.”
When Roy R. Haase Jr., the representative from Buckeye Partners - the company that runs the pipeline - responded to a very direct question from Vigilarolo during the question and answer session about what someone would have to do to cause significant damage to the structure and the surrounding community, Haase said that could not be answered and each scenario is different.
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