Andrew Hendry Clean natural gas isn’t a fuel source the public readily associates with electricity generation, because 75 percent of New Jersey households use natural gas directly, for heating their homes and cooking. The fact is, however, that natural gas Read More
PennEast Pipeline Backers Tout Lower Energy Prices in Fighting Well-Funded Green Groups
Anyone traveling along the roadways that run parallel to that part of the Delaware River where George Washington staged his famous Christmas night crossing in 1776 is sure to encounter signs that take aim at an energy project known as Read More
Controversial $180M pipeline clears last major hurdle in Pinelands vote
TRENTON — Amid whistles, cowbells and shouts from opponents, the proposal of a controversial cross-state pipeline cleared its last major hurdle Thursday as it received the blessing of New Jersey’s Pinelands Commission. The Southern Reliability Link, a 28-mile long, $180 Read More
With FERC at Quorum, PennEast Pipeline Likely to Move Ahead
After months of setbacks, the PennEast Pipeline is looking to get back on track, and last week’s approval of two new commissioners to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission might be the ticket. With the confirmation of the commissioners by the Read More
DUH! Feds Proclaim PennEast Pipeline’s ‘Limited’ Anticipated Impact
Despite the best efforts of enviroMENTALists to convince voters that the PennEast Pipeline project will end civilization as we know it in Central New Jersey, Save Jerseyans, we have more evidence that that’s not going to happen. On Friday, the Federal Energy Read More
PSEG Power May Pull Out of PennEast Pipeline Project
Credit: Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY Crews weld a pipeline connecting to a natural gas well in the Loyalsock State Forest. PSEG Power is exploring the sale of its share of the PennEast pipeline, a 118-mile project that has stirred widespread opposition in Read More
VICTORY: Pinelands Commission Approves Natural Gas Pipeline
The long-languishing BL England pipeline project is finally about to become reality, Save Jerseyans. ‘Bout time! On Friday morning, the project gained Pinelands Commission approval (9-5 with one abstention) during a meeting at the Crowne Plaza hotel in Cherry Hill. The 22-mile proposed Read More
PennEast unfazed by pipeline delay, questions about need
PennEast Pipeline Co. LLC is pressing ahead undeterred by a delay in the federal review of the project’s environmental impact and doubts from a New Jersey agency that it’s even needed. The consortium of six natural gas companies proposes building Read More
Three Heavy Hitters Want to Join Pinelands Pipeline Suit on the ‘Green’ Side
Credit: NJTV News In a rare step, three former governors who opposed a controversial pipeline in the Pinelands are now trying to block the project by joining litigation against the agency that approved it. The governors — Brendan Byrne, Jim Read More