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Kinder Morgan Sends Formal Application For Northeast Pipeline To FERC

Opponents carried these signs at a FERC public hearing on the project.
Jim Levulis
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WAMC
Opponents carried these signs at a FERC public hearing on the project.

The controversial Northeast Energy Direct natural gas pipeline is now in the hands of the federal government.Kinder Morgan filed its formal application with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Friday. The 400-plus mile pipeline would run through Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Environmental groups and many politicians throughout the Northeast have opposed the $5 billion project.

“We do have a very good record and I am not aware of a project that – after we start the process – that we have pulled out of, unless there’s a commercial change of some sort, or that FERC has rejected,” Kinder Morgan Vice President of Public Affairs Allen Fore told WAMC in 2014.

FERC’s review is expected to take about a year.

Click here for WAMC’s continuing coverage of the Northeast Energy Direct project.

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Born and raised in Eden, NY, Jim has been WAMC’s Associate News Director since October 2016. Since 2020, Jim has hosted WAMC's flagship news programs: Midday Magazine, Northeast Report and Northeast Report Late Edition. From 2013 to 2016, he worked as WAMC's Berkshire Bureau Chief.

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