Pipeline Meeting In Columbia County
“Local officials, representatives from pipeline company Kinder Morgan and local citizens met last week in Columbia County to talk about a proposed gas pipeline. Nearly 200 landowners across Schoharie County could be impacted by the pipeline in one way or another.
If approved, this section of the “Northeast Energy Direct” line would sit along a Columbia County corridor where three other gas pipelines are already in service.
Bob Nied is on the board of directors of the Schoharie County-based “Center for sustainable rural communities.” “The Kinder Morgan pipeline is a relatively new proposal. This would run from Pennsylvania through upstate New York to the town of Wright, where there is a primary compressor station in New York, and then on eastward into Massachusetts. It is a very early proposal. The company has started having some open house meetings with the communities, but only on the eastern end of this from the town of Wright eastward through Massachusetts.”
Meetings have not yet been scheduled for the bulk of upstate New York. Kinder Morgan officials have made it clear that such town meetings are NOT required by the Federal Energy Regulatory Committee. The Chatham Courier says Kinder Morgan representatives directed local officials, who asked about obtaining gas from the line for area residents, to approach local distributors about that. And when asked about noise pollution, the company promised its compressor stations would operate no louder than 55 decibels.”
Lucas, Dave. WAMC Radio 3 November 2014.