The state has rejected the proposal before, but environmental activists are angered by the way officials have ignored their repeated requests for in-person hearings. The pipeline would run from Pennsylvania, through New Jersey, to Queens in New York City.
Environmental activists at a Sept. 9 demonstration against the Northeast Enhancement Supply pipeline on the Raritan Bayshore in Middletown, New Jersey. Credit: Charlie Kratovil
Williams Cos. has resubmitted permit applications for its Northeast Supply Enhancement (NESE) pipeline project in New Jersey, igniting new opposition from environmental groups and local officials in Somerset County’s Franklin Township, where a new compressor station would be built.
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection has no statutory deadline for issuing the permits needed to proceed with the pipeline project, which would extend Williams’ existing Transcontinental natural gas pipeline system from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, through New Jersey and beneath the Raritan and Lower New York Bays to Queens in New York City. But a recent public comment period closed Sept. 25.
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