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Fraser921
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Then they wonder why energy is higher

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Score another victory for the forces of evil, by which we mean leftwing, wackadoodle anti-fossil fuel extremists. Just a short time ago MDN received the statement below from PennEast Pipeline that states, in our words, they’ve given up. Throwing in the towel. Dead. PennEast will not get built. You can’t say we didn’t warn you this may happen.

PennEast Pipeline, a 120-mile, primarily 36-inch pipeline that would have cost $1 billion to build and run from Dallas, Luzerne County, in northeastern Pennsylvania, and terminate at Transco’s pipeline interconnection near Pennington, Mercer County, New Jersey, won a huge and important victory at the U.S. Supreme Court in June (see PennEast Pipeline Squeaks Out 5-4 Supreme Court Victory Over NJ). The victory allows PennEast to use eminent domain to run the pipeline across property owned or controlled by the State of New Jersey. Yet last week PennEast notified a federal court it was withdrawing its eminent domain case against NJ for 42 properties the state either controls or owns (see Troubling: PennEast Pipeline Withdraws NJ Eminent Domain Lawsuits).

A month ago PennEast dropped its eminent domain cases against landowners in Pennsylvania, where the project was set to begin construction (see PennEast Stops Eminent Domain Lawsuits in PA – What Does it Mean?).

After both bits of news about pulling back eminent domain cases, we asked, “What the heck is going on?” We said we hoped the project would still get built, but we expressed our concerns and doubts. We were right to do so.

This morning we received the following statement from Patricia Kornick, spokesperson for PennEast:

Although PennEast received a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity from FERC to construct the proposed pipeline and obtained some required permits, PennEast has not received certain permits, including a water quality certification and other wetlands permits under Section 401 of the Clean Water Act for the New Jersey portion of the Project; therefore, the PennEast partners, following extensive evaluation and discussion, recently determined further development of the Project no longer is supported. Accordingly, PennEast has ceased all further development of the Project.*
We suppose “ceasing further development” could mean, in our wildest dreams, that someday development will resume. But we don’t think so. This project is dead, which makes us profoundly sad. We hate it when the bad guys win.
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