'They're liars': activists say Brooklyn residents were not informed of fracked gas pipeline

Environmentalist groups say the pipeline, intended to funnel gas from Pennsylvania to north Brooklyn, is an example of environmental racism

Pati Rodriguez grew up in Bushwick, a historically industrial, predominantly Hispanic neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. She has worked as a community organizer for years, and at 38, she knows the neighborhood inside and out. So she was surprised last year to learn about a natural gas pipeline being built a block away from her daughter's school, more than two years after its construction had begun.

Rodriguez says she learned about the Metropolitan Reliability Infrastructure (MRI) project - more often referred to as the North Brooklyn pipeline by local activists - from the anti-fracking advocacy group Sane Energy Project, which for the last year has held neighborhood meetings to raise awareness of the construction.