PennEast Pipeline Backers Tout Lower Energy Prices in Fighting Well-Funded Green Groups
Anyone traveling along the roadways that run parallel to that part of the Delaware River where George Washington staged his famous Christmas night crossing in 1776 is sure to encounter signs that take aim at an energy project known as the PennEast Pipeline.
Some of those signs invoke revolutionary language with statements that claim “We the People Say No to PennEast.”
Other signs say: “Don’t Let them Poison Our Water! Stop PennEast,” “Pipeline Blast Zone, Stop PennEast,” “Just Say No! Stop PennEast,” and “Stop the Fracking Pipelines.”
The messages opposing the natural gas pipeline can be spotted along roadways on both the Pennsylvania and New Jersey sides of the river.
Any day now, the six energy companies that are part of the PennEast Pipeline project expect to get a green light to proceed from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which regulates the interstate transmission of natural gas, oil, and electricity. That approval would come in the form of a certificate allowing construction and operation of the pipeline.
The anti-pipeline signs and mailings mention ReThinkEnergy, a coalition of environmentalists who have received substantial funding from the Philadelphia-based William Penn Foundation.
Under current plans, the proposed 120-mile-long, 36-inch-diameter, underground pipeline would originate just …read more