NJDEP Hearing on Transco Compressor Upgrade Brings Out the Antis

In March 2019, MDN told you about a new Williams plan to beef up the Transco pipeline in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, to deliver an extra 829 MMcf/d (originally 1 billion cubic feet per day) of Marcellus gas to PA, NJ, and Maryland (see Williams Announces Transco Competitor to PennEast Pipe in NEPA). The project, called the Regional Energy Access (REA) expansion project, was aimed at competing with the PennEast Pipeline project by flowing gas from northeastern Pennsylvania to the Trenton, NJ area. PennEast is no more, but REA is still alive and well. Last Thursday, the New Jersey Dept. of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) held a hearing about upgrades to a compressor station in Branchburg, part of REA. The antis came out to lie.

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