Real Estate & Property Law

Spectra - Meeting Held in New Jersey on Proposed National Gas Pipeline

By Alan Ackerman

Spectra addressed some of the issues in its attempt to acquire property for a profitable pipeline.  Two important questions are; will people be treated fairly and will the ecology be protected.  Bringing the pipeline along the environmentally tested Hudson River will be a challenge that the New Jersey community will have to face and carefully scrutinize.  

Jersey City Independent

Spectra Energy has scheduled another open house meeting about its proposed natural gas pipeline extension through Jersey City. The path of the 15.5-mile extension, which is traced in black in the map above, would come up from Staten Island into Bayonne then into Jersey City, where it would follow the route of the Turnpike extension, eventually crossing the Hudson River into New York. It is expected to bring up to 800 million cubic feet of natural gas per day to Con Edison customers in Manhattan.

The plan is opposed by Mayor Jerramiah Healy, several City Council members and other elected officials, as well as some local residents. Spectra officials say it is still in its preliminary stage, but the company hopes to be serving more natural gas to Manhattanites, via the extension, by the fall of 2013.

Full post as published by National Eminent Domain Blog on July 02, 2010 (boomark / email).