COALITION AGAINST PILGRIM PIPELINES (CAPP)
FILM SCREENING & ACTION TOOLKIT
FILM SCREENING CHECKLIST
Step 1: Find the Right Location and Set a Day and Time
Potential screening locations include your home, a local library, community center, school, or place
of worship. Check with the potential venue to ensure they have the necessary equipment for your
screening, and if they have a reservation process or fee. Each screening and post-viewing discussion
should last around 2 hours.
Fill out the screening form to register your event and request additional materials by clicking here.
Step 2: Get the Word Out
There are many ways to let your community know about your event. Talking to your neighbors,
family, friends; send an e-mail invitation including asking recipients to forward it to others; create a
Facebook event; post flyers; and invite government officials. Use #StopPilgrimPipelines and
#PilgrimPipeline when posting on social media to further your reach.
Step 3: Check Your Tech
Make sure the screen/projector and speakers are working properly in advance of your screening.
Check to see if you can hear the words and that the room is dark enough to see the entire screen.
Step 4: Show the Film and Activate Your Audience
Print Handouts and a sign-in sheet to track participation and follow up. Consider holding a Q&A
after the film, and inviting audience to take action right then and there via signing and sharing an
online petition, signing up to volunteer, etc.
COALITION AGAINST PILGRIM PIPELINES (CAPP)
FILM SCREENING & ACTION TOOLKIT
Advertising Your Event-Use the customizable materials below to promote your event, or create your own.
BY E-MAIL:
Dear __________________,
I’m inviting you to join me for a screening of XXXXXX, a new short documentary from acclaimed filmmaker Jon
Bowermaster. This hard hitting film takes a look at the Hudson River and the pipeline projects threatening this
great river.
Pilgrim Pipeline Holdings, LLC has proposed to construct two parallel pipelines each up to 20 inches in diameter
that would run from Albany, NY to Linden, NJ along the NYS Thruway and through private property. One pipeline
would transport crude oil south while the other pipeline would carry refined products north. In total, the pipelines
would cover some 178 miles (including five laterals totaling nearly 13 miles), impacting 31 municipalities in Albany,
Rensselaer, Greene, Ulster, Orange, and Rockland counties. Since the pipelines would be supplied with oil via rail,
additional New York communities from Bufallo to Albany and from Plattsburg to Albany will be impacted by the
proposed project.
The proposal is a risk to the Hudson River, its tributaries and the communities in the path of the proposed project.
Concerned with these significant risks, over two dozen cities, villages and towns have passed resolutions formally
opposing the construction of the Pilgrim oil pipelines.
WHAT:
WHEN:
WHERE:
ADMISSION: Free
Following the screening there will be a Q&A discussion and conversation about how we can work to prevent these
pipeline projects.
I hope to see you there!
Sincerely,
(YOUR NAME)
FACEBOOK Make a Facebook event and invite your friends, or simply post on your friends’ walls
Sample post: Join me for a film screening and discussion of Jon Bowermaster’s XXXXXXX. A Q&A session will follow,
along with a conversation outlining how we can join the fight against the pipeline projects. The screening is free,
but to reserve a seat, please RSVP.
TWITTER
COALITION AGAINST PILGRIM PIPELINES (CAPP)
FILM SCREENING & ACTION TOOLKIT
ACTION GUIDE:
WHAT YOU CAN DO TO STOP PILGRIM PIPELINES
1. CALL GOVERNOR CUOMO. Tell him to deny Pilgrim’s request to use the New York State Thruway Right of Way for their
dangerous and unnecessary proposed pipelines. Tell Governor Cuomo to protect our water, our communities, and his
own sustainability goals for New York State. Call 518-474-8390. You can also contact him at:
https://www.governor.ny.gov/contact. See the next page for a sample call script.
2. MAKE COMMENTS. Individuals, communities, involved and interested agencies should actively engage in the critical
DEC and Thruway Authority’s environmental review of Pilgrim pipelines, which will create the record on which all
subsequent permitting decisions must be made. Submit your own written and oral comments on the project’s potential
impacts of greatest concern to you, and urge your local town board or city council to submit theirs.
3. GET INVOLVED. Sign the petition, on paper or www.stoppilgrimpipeline.com (download it: green button, top right
corner). Get your friends, neighbors and associates to sign it too. Sign up on the Volunteer sheet and let us know your
skills and interests. Does your area have a “Coalition Against Pilgrim Pipelines -­NY” --­ affiliated local group? If not, start
one. CAPPNY has organizing conference calls every week to strategize and to support local organizers’ work.
4. TELL YOUR NYS SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES to support Assembly Member Skartados’ bill to grant “towns” the
same authority as villages and cities to veto (or deny Pilgrim permission to build) Pilgrim under the Transportation
Corporation Law. Also, call and write to your state senators and assembly members and call on them to oppose the
Pilgrim Pipelines.
5. USE SOCIAL MEDIA TO STAY IN TOUCH AND GET OUT THE WORD. Follow us on Facebook: NY--­NJ Coalition Against
Pilgrim Pipelines – CAPP. Use Twitter hashtags #nopilgrim and#stoppilgrimpipelines. Watch the “Pilgrim Pipelines 101”
webinar on Youtube! Explore the CAPP website: www.stoppilgrimpipeline.com.
6. WRITE LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. Also ask media outlets to cover Pilgrim, and the resistance to these proposed
pipelines, frequently and in depth.
7. BE VISIBLE. Put a “Stop Pilgrim Oil Pipelines” sign up near you, and take some home to spread around your
neighborhood. Leave petitions in public places. Grow the movement. Show up for your local Board or Council meetings.
Urge everyone you know to comment during the environmental review process.
More info:
Coalition Against Pilgrim Pipelines New York: www.stoppilgrimpipeline.com
Riverkeeper: www.riverkeeper.org/pilgrim
COALITION AGAINST PILGRIM PIPELINES (CAPP)
FILM SCREENING & ACTION TOOLKIT
CALL GOVERNOR CUOMO and urge him to deny PILGRIM PIPELINES’ use of the NYS Thruway
Right of Way to build its dangerous pipelines!
Dear Friends and Neighbors:
Dangerous Bakken crude oil could be transported alongside the New York State Thruway, but Governor Cuomo can deny
Pilgrim Pipeline’s use of the right of way and can stop this project.
Urge him to deny their request, now!
Pilgrim Pipeline Holdings, LLC, is trying to build the first pipelines to transport
dangerous fracked Bakken Shale oil and possibly tar sands crude oils. And, they want
to use the New York State Thruway right -of - way to build it! These twin pipelines
would carry fracked, volatile Bakken and possibly Canadian heavy crude oil from
Albany, NY, to Linden, NJ, and flammable refined products back from Linden to
Albany.
New pipelines fail at a higher rate than older ones. The proposed Pilgrim Pipelines
would threaten our communities, public health, safety, and water – including
millions of people’s drinking water.
Governor Cuomo committed to moving New York to a renewable energy future, to
cutting our emissions by 80% by 2050, and to investing in a climate resilient future.
Pilgrim’s pipelines directly conflict with this vision of New York: worsening climate
change, increasing emissions, and locking us in to a dangerous fossil fuel reliant
future.
Call Governor Cuomo now and urge him: Deny Pilgrim’s use of the New York Thruway Authority’s right of way.
HERE IS A SUGGESTED SCRIPT:
Governor Cuomo, you have pledged to be a climate leader, so I urge you to deny Pilgrim Pipeline Holdings' use of the
New York State Thruway Authority right of way to construct its pipelines. They would be the first pipelines to transport
dangerous fracked Bakken Shale and possibly Canadian heavy crude oils in New York, threatening our communities,
public health, safety, and water.
Governor Cuomo, protect New York and New Yorkers: stand with all the communities along the proposed pipeline route
that oppose this project and Deny Pilgrim's use of the right of way!
GOV. CUOMO'S OFFICE- 518-474-8390
The Pilgrim Oil Pipelines Fact Sheet
Pilgrim Pipelines Basics
Two parallel pipelines are proposed to run between Albany/Rensselaer, NY, and Linden, NJ, for 178 miles (356 miles of
pipelines). One pipeline would carry crude oil south to these refineries, and the other would carry refined petroleum
products north. Each would be 20 inches in diameter with 8.4 million gallon per day carrying capacity.
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60+ cities, towns, and villages in NJ and NY have passed municipal resolutions opposing Pilgrim Pipelines.
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Four pump stations, 35 permanent access roads, at least 50 temporary access roads (one every other mile), and
7 major construction zones/staging areas would greatly increase the amount of private and public land that the
project will occupy off Thruway land and the devastating local impacts of the proposed pipelines.
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Pilgrim would not be allowed to access its pipelines from the Thruway itself during construction or for post
construction maintenance, and thus would need to cut access roads through private and public property to local
roads, which will be subject to heavy construction traffic.
Cities and Villages have Approval or Veto Authority: New York Transportation Corporations Law
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There is no federal agency with overarching authority to permit oil pipelines as the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission (FERC) does with gas pipelines. States have broad authority over oil pipeline development. No
pipeline may be constructed “in an incorporated village or city” unless authorized by a two-thirds vote of the
legislative body of the city or village.
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In addition, New York Assembly member Frank Skartados introduced, and the State Assembly passed, state
legislation that would extend to towns the authority villages and cities already have to say no to construction of
oil pipelines within their jurisdictions. But state senators failed to act on this legislation in the 2016 session.
Property Owner Rights and Best Practices
You should consult an attorney before signing any document from the pipeline company or their contractors. If you have
questions or are concerned about any contact you have had with Pilgrim agents, you can reach out to your local elected
officials, police, and/or building inspector. You can also file a complaint with the NYS Attorney General’s Office. If you
have any concerns about interactions with Pilgrim representatives (e.g., they come on your property without your
permission, you feel you have been misled about their authority, or you feel pressured to sign a permission document):
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To File a complaint with the NYS Attorney General Consumer Frauds Bureau: http://bit.do/filecomplaint. Be sure
to make a copy of your complaint and share it with your county CAPP representative (listed on the back).
Visit riverkeeper.org/pilgrim
Petition to Stop the Pilgrim Pipelines:
We strongly urge Governor Andrew Cuomo; NYS Thruway Authority Acting Executive Director Bill Finch, NYS Department of
Environmental Conservation Commissioner Basil Seggos, NYS Department of Transportation Commissioner Matt Driscoll, and the Federal
Highway Administration New York Division Administrator Peter Osborn to:
Reject any proposal by the Pilgrim Pipeline Holdings LLC or other entities for construction of crude oil pipelines in the NYS Thruway rightof-way. The proposed Pilgrim pipelines would carry fracked, volatile Bakken (and/or Tar Sands) crude oil and flammable refined products
between Albany, NY, and Linden, NJ, posing unnecessary and unacceptable risks to the health, safety, and welfare of communities along
the proposed pipeline path, to our waterways and climate, and to Thruway travelers.
By signing this document, I also agree to be added to the CAPP-NY e-communications list to receive future updates.
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STOP THE PILGRIM PIPELINES! PETITION BACKGROUND
These proposed pipelines, plus 5 laterals, 4 pump stations, 35 new permanent roads, over 100 temporary roads, and 7
construction zones, would threaten the health and safety of New York residents, put drinking water for millions at risk,
and harm climate, land and water. Waterways impacted include the Hudson River, Catskill Creek, Coeyman/Hannacroix
Creek Complex, the Rondout, Wallkill, Moodna, Esopus, Ramapo, and 232 other stream and creek crossings. Pilgrim
pipelines should be strongly rejected.
Between 2004 and 2012, pipelines spilled three times as much oil as oil trains, according to the International Energy
Agency. New pipelines are failing at a higher rate than old pipelines. The U.S. Department of Transportation's Pipeline
and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) issued a safety alert on Jan. 2, 2014 regarding the volatility of
Bakken crude oil. According to PHMSA data, pipeline operators reported 1,880 crude oil pipeline incidents nationwide
between 2003 and 2013 resulting in over 44 million gallons of oil being spilled, fouling groundwater, surface water
bodies, farmland and woodland, and resulting in over $2.5 billion in property damage. In only 5% of all cases were spills
detected by leak detection equipment.
These pipelines would not replace rail and barge transport of crude oil in New York. Instead, they would increase the
flow of crude oil in the State to refineries and export terminals in New Jersey for production and export. Supporting
long-term investment in fossil fuel infrastructure directly conflicts with New York State’s goal of reducing carbon
emissions by 80% by 2050 to reduce the threat of the climate crisis to present and future generations.
These petitions shall be delivered to:
NYS Governor Cuomo; NYS Thruway Authority Acting Executive Director Bill Finch, NYS Department of Environmental
Conservation Commissioner Basil Seggos, NYS Department of Transportation Commissioner Matt Driscoll, the Federal
Highway Administration Division Administrator Peter Osborn
Contact us:
Coalition Against Pilgrim Pipelines – Saugerties: Sue Rosenberg (914) 466-0954
Coalition Against Pilgrim Pipelines-New York: Iris Marie Bloom (845) 687-7810, [email protected]
For more information:
COALITION AGAINST PILGRIM PIPELINES website: www.stoppilgrimpipeline.com
Mail this petition to: Catskill Mountainkeeper, P.O. Box 1000 Livingston Manor, NY 12758