Compressor dangers

I read (Michael Graham’s) OpEd in your paper saying we who are against the Weymouth Compressor station are believing in unicorns, to paraphrase. Excuse me, but I don’t have the paper because I was disgusted and threw it out.

Unicorns do not exist but a bridge in Weymouth does exist, new, bright and shiny, and sparkling blue in memory of Sgt. Chesna, a police officer from Weymouth who was killed most recently. This isn’t a unicorn. It can be viewed by taking a drive to Weymouth.

Five hundred yards from this bridge is a fenced-in small parcel of land that Enbridge (no relation to our bridge) wants to build a huge compressor on. You can call Enbridge and ask them. They will tell you this is true. Again, not our imagination.

A pipeline in Pennsylvania exploded recently, burning a man on 85 percent of his body. The flames were on the evening news. All of our imaginations? That pipeline was in a rural area also and the fire traveled miles to that sleeping man. It would have killed 1,400 people if it were located at the proposed Weymouth site.

The North Weymouth area is an environmental justice zone, designated by our government because of the volume of diseases in that area already, due to heavy industry. Is this our imagination also? Or can these facts be checked?

It seems that it is sloppy journalism when facts are not discovered and instead people are called names to make them appear crazy.

Maybe your paper should do some real investigative work and if you do, I can guarantee you will be on our side because our facts check out.

— Suzanne Torres, Weymouth