Fractivists Gear Up to Fight Conversion of Philly Pipe for NatGas

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A far-left group of radicals calling themselves Ending Dirty Gas Exploitation Philadelphia (EDGE Philly) is borrowing a tactic first pioneered by THE Delaware Riverkeeper, to oppose a short pipeline project near Philadelphia. In November, MDN shared the exciting news that an old oil pipeline stretching from Northampton County, PA through Bucks, Montgomery, and Chester counties, terminating in Delaware County at Marcus Hook, had been purchased by a subsidiary of New Jersey Resources and will get converted to flow Marcellus natural gas to the greater Philadelphia region (see Oil Pipeline Near Philly to be Converted to Flow Fracked NatGas). The project/pipeline is called Adelphia Gateway. Adelphia ran an open season--a period of time when shippers can reserve capacity along the pipeline--and got requests for twice the amount of capacity the pipeline will hold (see Converted Pipeline Near Philly Gets 2X More Interest than Capacity). That was more than enough for NJ Resources to move forward with the project. In January NJ Resources filed an official application with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to convert the existing pipeline to flow natural gas, and add various facilities (like meter stations) along the way (see Adelphia Gateway Pipeline Near Philly Files with FERC). The irrational fossil fuel haters from EDGE Philly want to stop the project. So they're coaching as many blind followers as possible to file as "intervenors" in the project--hoping to flood FERC with intervenor applications, slowing down the entire approval process, bringing it to a halt...

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