Editorials: Long story short
“Whether a pipeline may be a better, safer option for transporting North Dakota Bakken crude now moving by trains and barges out of the Port of Albany remains to be seen. Citizens and numerous government entities have many questions to ask and trade-offs to ponder.
But one thing is clear now: there’s no place for bullying landowners in this.
Pilgrim Pipeline proposes a $1 billion pipeline linking Albany with northern New Jersey, partly along the New York State Thruway.
Last week, the Sierra Club said it has letters between the company and a New Jersey homeowner in which lawyers for Pilgrim suggest it could take the private property by eminent domain to gain the surveying access it needs.”
Times Union 8 November 2014.