The Department of Environmental Protection has scheduled a hearing on a compressor station proposal for Bridgewater and Brooklyn townships. Williams Energy wants to build the compressor, which would dehydrate, condense and pressurize gas from nearby Marcellus wells in order to send it through their growing system of pipelines. According to the DEP’s announcement, the station [...]
The Clean Air Council has appealed a permit issued by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection to Angelina Gathering Company for a compressor station expansion in Herrick Township, Bradford County. Compressor stations push natural gas through pipelines toward processing plants or the end-user. In addition to emissions from the compressor station, nearby natural gas operations [...]
The Wall Street Journal reports today on a deal struck by the natural gas pipeline company Kinder Morgan to buy its rival El Paso Corporation. The $38 billion dollar purchase (includes El Paso’s outstanding debt) gives Kinder Morgan control over the largest pipeline network in the country at a time when shale gas development is [...]
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