Victory! UGI Nears Completion of New Pipeline Gate Station

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It's a small victory, but a victory nonetheless. The point where two different natural gas transmission pipelines connect--to transfer gas from one to the other--is called a gate station. Utility company UGI wanted to build a gate station near Scranton, PA so it could tap into locally-produced (and very cheap) Marcellus Shale gas from northeast PA. And of course anti-drillers objected, even though there's been another gate station operating safely in the area for 50 years (see Anti-Drillers Try to Stop Pipeline Connector in NE PA and Back to Kindergarten: UGI Explains NatGas Gate Stations). In August a judge finally cleared the way for UGI to build their new gate station--and it's nearly done. Finally! A victory against the anti-drilling Luddites...

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