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Update and last call for comments on Constitution Pipeline: FERC moving ahead
The deadline for filing comments, protest and or Motion to Intervene on Constitution Pipeline is tomorrow, Thursday, January 29th at 5:00 p.m.
For folks that have been following in detail, we were waiting to see what the response would be to the NY Attorney General’s office demand that FERC obey the orders of the Second District Court of Appeals and stop using the old docket for Constitution from 2013. That would have forced Constitution Pipeline, LLC to start from scratch, filing a new application and triggering the full project review process with significant opportunity for public interaction.
FERC replied to the Atty. General, claiming that they have “broad discretion to manage its docket”, and that they will continue with this unprecedented revival of a project docket that should have been vacated by order of a U.S. District Court.
So that means we need to go all in on protesting this pipeline through comments by this deadline. There will be no further public interaction.
Though the pipeline is proposed for Pennsylvania and New York, its intent is to supply 650,000 dekatherms a day for New England markets. Some of the intervenors include New England local gas distribution companies, drawing off the gas transmission lines coming into Connecticut and Massachusetts. This pipeline would also be a major artery connecting the fracking gathering lines to all major regional pipeline systems at the Wright NY Interconnect, making more expansions on our pipeline systems possible.
This pipeline affects all of us.
If you haven’t already, take a few moments to send comments to the docket numbers for this project, CP13-499-006 and CP18-5-004.
» See how to comment here
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