Developer Building PennEast Fracked Gas Pipeline Project Surrenders
Monday, September 27, 2021
Today the developers of the controversial PennEast pipeline project announced they were cancelling the project after being denied necessary water quality permits. image courtesy of iStock PennEast Pipeline Co. LLC’s 116-mile pipeline would have shipped fracked Marcellus Shale gas from Northeast Pennsylvania, across the Delaware River to New Jersey, where it would likely be sold to be burned in foreign countries. The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection declined to issue Clean Water Act permits for the project in 2019, citing its potential impacts to water quality. Today PennEast cited their inability to comply with the Clean Water Act as... Read more →