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Radicals Challenge No-Emissions Compressor in NJ Supreme Court

Tennessee Gas Pipeline’s (TGP) plan to flow more Marcellus gas to Westchester and New York City is called the East 300 Upgrade Project. The project involves upgrades at two existing compressor stations (in Pennsylvania), along with building a brand new compressor station in West Milford (Passaic County), just across the border and not far from Westchester County, NY. Radicalized fossil fuel haters at Food & Water Watch, one of the worst of the worst anti groups, is challenging the all-electric, no-emissions compressor station planned for Passaic County in New Jersey Supreme Court.
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Controversy Erupts Over TGP’s Responsible Gas Pooling Service

In December, Tennessee Gas Pipeline (TGP), a subsidiary of Kinder Morgan, filed a proposal with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to implement a “responsibly sourced natural gas (RSG) supply aggregation pooling service” at select locations across the TGP system (see Tennessee Gas Pipeline Announces Responsible Gas Pooling Service). Utilities and other buyers will be able to buy RSG-certified natural gas for their customers, costing them more money. The TGP proposal at FERC is getting serious pushback from both Big Oil companies and some smaller independents.
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Tennessee Gas Pipeline Announces Responsible Gas Pooling Service

Yesterday Tennessee Gas Pipeline (TGP), a subsidiary of Kinder Morgan, filed a proposal with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to implement a “responsibly sourced natural gas (RSG) supply aggregation pooling service” at select locations across the TGP system. Translation: Utilities and other buyers will be able to buy RSG certified natural gas for their customers, costing them more money.
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Passaic County, NJ Resolution Opposing TGP Compressor Fails, Again

Tennessee Gas Pipeline’s (TGP) plan to flow more Marcellus gas to Westchester and New York City is called the East 300 Upgrade Project. The project involves upgrades at two existing compressor stations (in Pennsylvania), along with building a brand new compressor station in West Milford (Passaic County), just across the border and not far from Westchester County, NY. For a second time this year, Passaic County commissioners have refused to vote in favor of a resolution opposing the project.
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Springfield, MA City Council Still Resisting 2.1 Mile Loop Pipe

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Over the past two years, MDN has told you about a tiny 2.1-mile looping pipeline segment proposed by Kinder Morgan’s Tennessee Gas Pipeline (TGP), to be buried next to the existing TGP, to connect regions around Springfield, Massachusetts to receive more natural gas supplies. Springfield neighborhoods like Holyoke have an ongoing moratorium on hooking up new natgas customers unless/until more supply is provided (see Holyoke, Mass. Gas Moratorium Continues Due to No New Pipelines). And yet the dunderheads on the Springfield City Council still don’t get it. They’re “seeking additional details and answers to concerns” about this tiny pipeline project.
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Tennessee Gas Pipeline & Southwestern Energy Announce M-U RSG Plan

Not only is gas so-called “responsible gas” if it’s extracted from the ground in a certain way, it’s even more “responsible” if it flows through a pipeline a certain way. That’s the theory anyway. In June of this year, Southwestern Energy announced it was working with Project Canary to certify all of its Marcellus/Utica gas production as responsible (see Southwestern Grows Certification – All M-U NatGas “Responsible”). Now Tennessee Gas Pipeline (built and maintained by Kinder Morgan) is getting into the act and will certify the way it flows its gas is responsible too.
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Mtg for NJ Compressor Expansion Draws Only Supporters, No Antis

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Back in June, we told you about an amusing circumstance when anti-fossil fuelers were all dressed up and ready to unload over a simple expansion of a compressor station in Sussex County, NJ–but then the Tennessee Gas Pipeline (TGP) rep who was supposed to make a presentation couldn’t be there at the last minute because of “car trouble” (see Antis All Dressed Up to Bash NJ Compressor at Mtg, Rep Didn’t Show). The rep finally made it to a Sussex County Board of Commissioners meeting–yesterday. There were no antis present to heckle him. Instead, three members/reps from labor unions got up to speak, each of them strongly supporting the TGP East 300 Upgrade project.
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TGP Offers “More Realistic” GHG Estimates than FERC for East 300

In an effort to flow more Marcellus natural gas to a gas-starved New York City, Kinder Morgan cut a deal with utility company Consolidated Edison in 2019 to beef up capacity along its Tennessee Gas Pipeline (TGP) that feeds NYC, allowing Con Ed to avoid cutting customers off from natgas hookups (see Con Ed Deal May End Westchester, NY Gas Moratorium…in 2023). TGP’s plan to flow more natgas to Westchester and NYC is called the East 300 Upgrade Project. The project involves upgrades at two existing compressor stations (in Pennsylvania), along with building a brand new compressor station in West Milford, NJ, just across the border and not far from Westchester County, NY.
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TGP Pays West Milford, NJ $200K to Allow Compressor Station

In an effort to flow more Marcellus natural gas to a starving New York City, Kinder Morgan cut a deal with utility company Consolidated Edison in 2019 to provide more gas by beefing up capacity along its Tennessee Gas Pipeline (TGP) that feeds NYC, allowing Con Ed to avoid cutting customers off from natgas hookups (see Con Ed Deal May End Westchester, NY Gas Moratorium…in 2023). Part of KM’s plan to beef up TGP includes building a super-quiet, zero-emissions electric compressor station in West Milford Township in Passaic County, NJ. On Wednesday township officials approved the deal, after TGP agreed to pay $200,000.
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Holyoke, Mass. Gas Moratorium Continues Due to No New Pipelines

In February 2019, Holyoke (Massachusetts) Gas and Electric slapped a moratorium on new gas customers throughout its system (see Another New England Utility Says No New Gas Customers). There’s not enough natural gas available to sell to customers, not without more supply. Holyoke gets its gas from the Tennessee Gas Pipeline (TGP). Kinder Morgan’s solution to provide more gas to Holyoke and others is to expand the delivery capability of TGP in the region by adding a minuscule 2.1 miles of new looping pipeline (buried next to an existing TGP pipe), upgrading a compressor station, and building a new connection, called a delivery gate. It’s a minimal project, a nothingburger–and yet the crazies in Mass. refuse to allow it. Which means the Holyoke moratorium on new gas customers continues, for two years and counting…
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Vernon, NJ Votes to Block More NatGas Supplies to NYC

Antis and leftwing environmentalists in New Jersey continue their mission to block more natural gas from flowing to New York City, threatening the residents of the city, by attacking two compressor stations in the NJ suburbs. The latest conscripts to the holy mission of defeating “fossil fuels” can be found among the weaklings who sit on the Vernon Township (NJ) Council, who voted 4-1 to oppose a proposed expansion of Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company’s compressor station in Wantage (Sussex County).
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Antis All Dressed Up to Bash NJ Compressor at Mtg, Rep Didn’t Show

We find it kind of amusing that anti-fossil fuelers dead set against a plan by Kinder Morgan to build a new compressor station in Passaic County, NJ, and dead set against upgrading an existing compressor station in neighboring Sussex County, NJ, were all worked up to attend a Sussex County Board of Commissioners meeting where a Tennessee Gas Pipeline representative was supposed to make a presentation, but the rep didn’t show. He had (ahem) “car trouble” and couldn’t make the meeting in person. Antis were all dressed up with nowhere to go.
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Passaic County, NJ Scraps Resolution Opposing TGP Compressor Stn

Tennessee Gas Pipeline’s (TGP) plan to flow more natural gas to Westchester and New York City is called the East 300 Upgrade Project. The project involves upgrades at two existing compressor stations (in Pennsylvania), along with building a brand new compressor station in West Milford (Passaic County), just across the border and not far from Westchester County, NY. Two weeks ago we told you area residents and leftwing environmentalists had convinced the county to officially oppose the project (see NJ County Opposes TGP NatGas Compressor Station to Help NYC). In a major about-face, the county has all-of-a-sudden pulled back its opposition.
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FERC Just Declared War on 4 Marcellus/Utica Pipe Projects

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), now firmly under the jackboots of Chairman Richard “Dick” Glick, has just struck a major blow to five natural gas pipeline projects, four of them either located in the Marcellus/Utica or located elsewhere but will flow significant amounts of our gas. Just coming to light now is the fact that last Thursday functionaries inside the bowels of FERC issued notices to five pipeline projects that FERC has hit the pause button on finishing up final approvals so the agency can take the next six months to complete full environmental impact statements (EIS’s), gauging whether or not these projects will cause too much mythical, man-made global warming. We’d be really angry about this except our anger quotient is already exhausted with this bunch of leftist nuts.
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NJ County Opposes TGP NatGas Compressor Station to Help NYC

In an effort to flow more Marcellus natural gas to a starving New York City, Kinder Morgan cut a deal with utility company Consolidated Edison in 2019 to provide more gas by beefing up capacity along its Tennessee Gas Pipeline (TGP) that feeds NYC, allowing Con Ed to avoid cutting customers off from natgas hookups (see Con Ed Deal May End Westchester, NY Gas Moratorium…in 2023). Part of KM’s plan to beef up TGP includes building a super-quiet, zero-emissions electric compressor station in West Milford Township in Passaic County. Except anti-fossil fuel zealots have convinced the county to oppose the project.
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Northeast PA Pipeline Maintenance Leads to Lower Volumes/Prices

An important issue we don’t often think about is pipeline maintenance. Natural gas pipelines have to be inspected and sometimes repaired. When that happens, it takes a portion of the pipeline out of service. When pipelines are taken out of service, natural gas doesn’t have a way to get to the same markets it was flowing to, meaning it begins to pile up in the location where it’s extracted. Further meaning too much supply in a given location, which leads to lower prices. That’s what appears to be happening in northeastern Pennsylvania right now.
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