Anti-Drillers Try to Stop Pipeline Connector in NE PA

Even though a pipeline connection, known as a "gate station," has existed in Wyoming County, PA (northeastern part of the state) for the past 50 years, apparently no one noticed it existed (see Back to Kindergarten: UGI Explains NatGas Gate Stations). A small number of anti-drillers oppose a plan by local utility company UGI to build a second pipeline connector/gate station in the area. It's not a compressor plant--just a connector. And even though it will lower their natural gas bills, they don't want it. Why? They (erroneously) believe it's a back-door way for UGI to build a new compressor plant in the area, apparently:

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