Pipeline Route Will Be Planned Over "Next 8 To 12 Months"

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Scott Detrow is a congressional correspondent for NPR. He also co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast.

Detrow joined NPR in 2015 to cover the presidential election. He focused on the Republican side of the 2016 race, spending time on the campaign trail with Donald Trump, and also reported on the election's technology and data angles.

Detrow worked as a statehouse reporter for member stations WITF in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and KQED in San Francisco, California. He has also covered energy policy for NPR's StateImpact project, where his reports on Pennsylvania's hydraulic fracturing boom won a DuPont-Columbia and national Edward R. Murrow Award in 2013.

December 23, 2011 | 12:00 PM

Scott Detrow / StateImpact Pennsylvania

A pipeline clearing in Tioga County

Pittsburgh’s Essential Public Radio has more details on a proposed 258-mile pipeline that would transport natural gas through Pennsylvania:

The Williams Company of Houston has filed a pre-application with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to review its preliminary plans to construct the 258-mile pipeline from West Virginia through southern Pennsylvania, including Somerset and Bedford Counties.
“A huge supply [of natural gas] is there that major markets along the east coast would like access to. Unfortunately they can’t get access to it,” said Chris Stockton, a spokesman for the Williams Company. He said that they are in the “very, early, early, preliminary stages” of developing a proposal to build a pipeline which would ultimately hook up in York County with its Transco line that delivers natural gas from the Gulf Coast to New York, Philadelphia, Atlanta, and the Carolinas.
Stockton said that over the next 8 to 12 months they will be doing field work “really trying to identify a route that is constructible, that balances the environmental considerations, landowners’ considerations with the most effective way to connect and get that gas to market.”