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</b></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">The pipeline would have crossed more than 88 waterways, 44 wetlands, 30 parks, and 33 conservation easements. Experts say the cancelation demonstrates that federal regulators must stop approving gas pipelines that fail to show they are needed in the first place.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">PennEast Pipeline Cancelation Could Signal ‘End of an Era’ for Unnecessary Fossil Fuel Projects</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">By Nick Cunningham o<b>n Sep 30, 2021</b></div></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>a major natural gas pipeline</b> in Pennsylvania was canceled this week in the face of a thicket of legal obstacles and intense local opposition. The cancelation may punctuate what could be the end of a decade-long pipeline building frenzy in the U.S. as federal regulators begin to heed calls from activists and local communities to increase scrutiny over unneeded pipelines crisscrossing the country. </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">The PennEast pipeline would have carried </span><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Marcellus shale gas</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">from Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, across the Delaware River and to Mercer County, New Jersey. But the developers of the project canceled it on September 27, citing its inability to obtain state-level water quality permits from New Jersey.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> The decision came three months after the company <a href="https://www.desmog.com/2021/07/01/supreme-court-fracked-gas-pipeline-penneast-eminent-domain/" data-wpel-link="internal" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">won a case</a> before the U.S. Supreme Court related to the corporation’s ability to seize state land using eminent domain authority.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">PennEast would have <a href="https://www.sierraclub.org/new-jersey/penneast-pipeline" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">crossed</a> more than 88 waterways, 44 wetlands, 30 parks, and 33 conservation easements, according to the Sierra Club New Jersey Chapter. The state of New Jersey, including Governor Phil Murphy, has long opposed the project — and the threat the pipeline posed to water quality always meant that it faced a steep uphill climb in obtaining local approval.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">The cancelation highlights the obstacles that several other high-profile projects currently face. For instance, the Mountain Valley Pipeline in West Virginia and Virginia still needs state-level environmental permits, as does the Pacific Connector gas pipeline in Oregon, which would feed the Jordan Cove liquefied natural gas export project. The Mountain Valley Pipeline is under construction but still faces <a href="https://www.desmog.com/2021/07/14/epa-mountain-valley-pipeline-water-permit/" data-wpel-link="internal" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">many more hurdles</a> standing in the way of its completion. Jordan Cove is all but dead.</font></p></div><div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p></div>