Public Hearing Scheduled for New Compressor Station in Susquehanna County

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Susan Phillips tells stories about the consequences of political decisions on people's every day lives. She has worked as a reporter for WHYY since 2004. Susan's coverage of the 2008 Presidential election resulted in a story on the front page of the New York Times. In 2010 she traveled to Haiti to cover the earthquake. That same year she produced an award-winning series on Pennsylvania's natural gas rush called "The Shale Game." She received a 2013 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Journalism Award for her work covering natural gas drilling in Pennsylvania. She has also won several Edward R. Murrow awards for her work with StateImpact. In 2013/14 she spent a year at MIT as a Knight Science Journalism Fellow. She has also been a Metcalf Fellow, an MBL Logan Science Journalism Fellow and reported from Marrakech on the 2016 climate talks as an International Reporting Project Fellow. A graduate of Columbia School of Journalism, she earned her Bachelor's degree in International Relations from George Washington University.

August 8, 2012 | 4:34 PM

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 would include three natural-gas powered engines, a solar powered turbine, and a smokeless flare.
Last March, another Susquehanna County compressor station operated by Williams exploded, blowing a hole through the roof. The incident shook houses half a mile away.