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FERC Compressor Stn Hearing Near Wilkes-Barre Turns Up 1 Anti
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is conducting a series of four public meetings (called scoping sessions) for both the Williams Leidy South Project (see Williams Planning 2 New, 2 Upgraded Compressor Stations in NEPA) and the National Fuel Gas Company FM100 Project (see NFG FM100 Pipe Project in NW PA to Feed Marcellus Gas to Transco). Both projects work together to flow more Marcellus gas to the Transco Zone 6 region.
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On Friday MDN told you that Consolidated Edison’s deadline to apply to be added as a natural gas customer in Westchester County had arrived (see 
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Cue the dramatic music, cameras pan on the audience (audience members wearing freakish costumes). It’s time for the beginning of the Natural Gas Hunger Games. We have two contestants: New England and the Canadian Maritimes. Only one will survive and have access to barely enough natural gas to sustain life. Which will it be? Re-cue dramatic music with drums…
Did Williams just float an alternative/competitive pipeline to PennEast? Sure looks that way to us. On Friday Williams announced a binding open season to add 34 miles of looping pipeline next to existing Transco pipeline along with beefing up some of it’s compressor stations, in a bid to increase flows along the Transco from Luzerne County, PA (where PennEast would originate) to Mercer County, NJ (where PennEast would terminate).