CLICK FOR TEXT OF FERC ORDER Constitution Pipeline Lives, FERC Decides DEC Decision On Stream Beds Overturned By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com The Constitution Pipeline is back from what many thought was the dead. Two weeks ago, FERC – the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission – issued an order that allows the 125-mile Constitution to proceed without the water-quality permits denied in April 2016 by the state Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC). The water-quality permits were necessary for the…
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CLICK TO READ FERC ORDER FERC Removes Barrier To Constitution Pipeline FERC, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, has issued an order overruling the State of New York’s 2016 decision blocking the Constitution Pipeline. The order will be challenged, but if upheld it would allow pipeline construction from Northeast Pennsylvania to Cobleskill. DETAILS IN FREEMAN’S JOURNAL, HOMETOWN ONEONTA, ON NEWSSTANDS THROUGH COUNTY THIS AFTERNOON…
Constitution Pipeline Says FERC Filing Opens Door To Construction By Spring The Constitution Pipeline Co. said it is anticipating starting construction in the first quarter of 2015 after FERC today published its final environmental review of the 124-mile-long project. The FERC action is a key step toward the commission’s decision on the project, which is expected as early as late November, company said, anticipating it may be delivering natural gas downstate and to New England by the 2015-16 heating season.…
CLICK HERE TO READ DECISION CONSTITUTION LOSES ROUND Stop Pipeline Hails Decision; Company: We’ll Win In End By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com A federal Court of Appeals today denied the Constitution Pipeline’s appeal of the state Department of Environmental Conservation’s 2016 decision blocking the 121-mile project intended to carry fracked gas from Northeast Pennsylvania, through Delaware County, to connect with the Iroquois Pipeline near Cobleskill. The case was argued last Nov. 16 before the Second Circuit in New…
DEC REJECTS CONSTITUTION No Water-Quality Permit For Pipeline The state Department of Environmental Conservation today announced it has denied the water-quality permit required for the Constitution Pipeline, blocking the 124-mile-long project for the time being. “Although DEC has granted certificates for other projects, the application by Constitution for these certificates fails to meet New York State’s water quality standards,” DEC said in a statement. At issue is the Clean Water Act Section 401 Water Quality Certification. The state was required to reject…
SPOTLIGHT REPORT From Hometown Oneonta & The Freeman’s Journal IF CONSTITUTION STALLS, WOULD AMPHENOL STAY? Lacking Supply, Gas Supplier Shifts Focus To Pennsylvania Editor’s Note: This “Spotlight Report” is reprinted from this week’s Freeman’s Journal & Hometown Oneonta. Pick up allotsego.com’s sister newspapers weekly for news, features and commentary about the Otsego County regional issues. By JIM KEVLIN • Special to allotsego.com The future of Amphenol Aerospace’s 1,000-job Sidney plant if the state rejects the Constitution Pipeline is “a relatively minor blip…
Constitution Pipeline To Put 1,300 To Work By JIM KEVLIN • Hometown Oneonta/The Freeman’s Journal Edition of Dec. 11-12, 2014 Opponents are still looking for ways to block it, but the Constitution Pipeline Co. is planning to start work on the 124-mile natural-gas conduit by February or March, as soon as a couple of months from now. Bids on the project will be let soon after Jan. 1, and the construction companies that win the contract will begin seeking to…
WILLIAMS TAKES $145M WRITEOFF Stop The Pipeline Declares Victory – But Is It Final? By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com The Stop the Pipeline website declared “ding-dong, the witch is dead” after receiving the news in an e-mail sent out overnight by by attorney Anne Marie Garti of Stop The Pipeline. It declared: “Williams, the major investor in the proposed Constitution Pipeline, has written off its investment and stated that it has halted its investment in the project.” She…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Sept 13-14, 2019 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE Constitution Pipeline Lives, FERC Decides Geothermal Plan Dropped By Oneonta ‘Is Dunkin’ ‘Compatible?’ HPARB Asks Her Job, Seek Closure For 9/11 Families County’s New Rabbi’s Family Fled Hungary Survey Explores Cinema For Cooperstown EDITORIAL If Not The Constitution Pipeline, What? Conductor Huff At CSO? Wow! Stay Tuned COLUMNS NADEAU: George Morell Is At Peace ELLSWORTH: Reflections On Cooperstown MOYNIHAN: CSO Varied Concert…
As NY State Spends, Counties Can Expect Cuts, Seward Warns Senator Briefs Reps, Q&A Follows By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – The state Legislature’s ambitions are going to be paid for at the local level. That could be the lesson members of the Otsego County Board of Representatives took way from the Q&A this morning when state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, reported as follows at the board’s monthly meeting: • The state Legislature has reduced AIM funding…