Floyd Bennett Under Threat Again

Staten Island’s reactionary GOP (I know, that’s redundant) Representative Michael Grimm has introduced a bill in Congress to authorize the Interior Department to, according to the Jamaica Bay Research & Management Information Network:

“(1) issue permits to allow the planning, construction, operation, and maintenance of natural gas pipeline facilities in the Gateway National Recreation Area (New Jersey-New York); and (2) enter into a lease agreement to allow the occupancy and use of an aircraft hanger building on Floyd Bennett Field (Brooklyn, New York) to house facilities associated with the operation of natural gas pipeline facilities.”

Another bag man for the carbon industry, the aptly-named Grimm also “represents” a section of SW Brooklyn, but they don’t much vote for him there. (Cultist Ron Paul, meanwhile, makes no smoke and mirrors about selling off all public lands.)

Contact your Congressperson to kill this effort to pollute, plunder, and privatize Gateway.

I recently wrote about Floyd Bennett Field’s fragile grasslands.