{"id":14114,"date":"2014-12-13T15:26:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-13T15:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/independentweekender.com\/?p=14114"},"modified":"2014-12-13T15:26:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-13T15:26:00","slug":"feds-give-final-nod-to-constitution-pipeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenstreetdata.com\/PS\/2014\/12\/13\/feds-give-final-nod-to-constitution-pipeline\/","title":{"rendered":"Feds give final nod to Constitution Pipeline"},"content":{"rendered":"

BY BRENDAN GIBBONS<\/strong>
\n Times-Shamrock Writer<\/strong><\/p>\n

The federal agency in charge of interstate natural gas pipelines gave its final approval to a 124-mile line to ship gas from Susquehanna County to Schoharie County, New York.<\/p>\n

But Constitution Pipeline Co. LLC isn\u2019t finished yet. The company must still seek permits from Pennsylvania, New York and the Army Corps of Engineers.<\/p>\n

Constitution is a joint venture among pipeline company Williams, Cabot Oil & Gas Corp., Piedmont Natural Gas Co. Inc. and WGL Holdings Inc.<\/p>\n

When complete, the line will ship up to 650 million cubic feet of Marcellus Shale gas per day to customers in New York and New England. Cabot has agreed to ship 500 million cubic feet per day; Southwestern Energy Corp. agreed to the other 150 million.<\/p>\n

The decision by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission hands Constitution the power of eminent domain to force landowners to accept the pipeline on their land.<\/p>\n

It also sets 43 environmental conditions Constitution must follow when it builds the line.<\/p>\n

The line faced more fierce opposition in New York than in Pennsylvania, although some Pennsylvania landowners, like New Milford Twp. resident Tony Baroni, bristle at the idea of being forced to accept a pipeline.<\/p>\n

Mr. Baroni already agreed to host a gas gathering line on his land, installed by a company that didn\u2019t have eminent domain power.<\/p>\n

He said Constitution has been much more pushy in its dealings with him.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s why I think it being a federal project might not be a good thing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Still, since Constitution submitted its initial plans for the pipeline in September 2012, the company has made at least slight changes to more than 50 percent of its planned route, often for environmental or landowner concerns.<\/p>\n

Anne Marie Garti, a New York attorney and co-founder of the Stop the Pipeline group, said they plan to request a rehearing from FERC and make comments as the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation reviews the pipeline under the Clean Water Act.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s still big hurdles that the pipeline company has to go through on less friendly territory than rubber-stamper FERC,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

In their latest earnings teleconferences, Cabot\u2019s and Southwestern\u2019s CEOs mentioned uncertainty about the permit process.<\/p>\n

Cabot CEO Dan Dinges called Constitution just one of several planned projects involving Cabot but also \u201cthe most impactful near-term inflection point.\u201d<\/p>\n

The pipeline could be placed in service between late 2015 and July 2016, depending on \u201cthe uncertainty that still surrounds (the) final approval process,\u201d Mr. Dinges said.<\/p>\n

Southwestern CEO Steve Mueller said the next \u201cbig thing\u201d is to receive approvals from New York State.
\nThis should be a \u201crelatively short process,\u201d he said, \u201cbut just making sure you get all the permits and predicting when and how you are going to get all those permits is an issue.\u201d<\/p>\n

All the pipe Constitution need is stacked and waiting in Albany County, spokesman Chris Stockton said. Thirty-three miles\u2019 worth came from Dura-Bond Industries in Steelton, he said. The other 91 miles came from Florida.<\/p>\n

Once construction starts, Constitution plans to have five teams working in different places along the route, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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