Still a Chance for NFG’s Northern Access Pipeline into New York?

One month ago, National Fuel Gas Company (NFG) CEO David Bauer confirmed that his company had given up after battling for 10 years to build the Northern Access Pipeline, a 97-mile pipeline from McKean County in Pennsylvania into and through Allegany, Cattaraugus, and Erie counties in New York that would have flowed Marcellus gas into New York State (see NFG Gives Up on Building Northern Access Pipeline; NY Killed It). The project faced intense opposition from New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and later his successor, Gov. Kathy Hochul. Even though the project eventually won the right to build via the courts, years of opposition from NY increased the costs exponentially and led NFG to pass on building it. Yet 11 Congresspeople (from NY and PA) sent a letter to Gov. Hochul yesterday asking her to drop her opposition to the project. Huh?

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