In a filing this week, Williams asked the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to approve the project by Nov. 30. Read more here.
The Regional Energy Access Expansion Project is a natural gas pipeline expansion project will extend across three Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection regions: 3 counties in the Northeast Region (Luzerne, Monroe, Northampton), 3 counties in the Southeast Region (Bucks, Chester, Delaware), and 1 county in the Southcentral Region (York). However, the Project will not require earth disturbance in Delaware and York counties.
DEP held a virtual hearing on the permit applications October 5. Read more here.
Williams told FERC that a failure to act on the Regional Energy Access application this month would "threaten our ability to meet critical construction windows established to protect certain threatened and endangered species."
"Missing those construction windows would delay construction and postpone the in-service dates by up to 12 months, preventing this vital (and fully subscribed) natural gas pipeline capacity from being placed into service in time for the 2023-2024 winter heating season," Williams added.
Williams said it filed for permission to build the project with FERC in March 2021 and received the final Environmental Impact Statement for the project in July 2022.
Click Here to read the entire Reuters article.
Visit DEP’s Regional Energy Access Expansion Project webpage for more detail on the status of state environmental permits.
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[Posted: November 10, 2022] PA Environment Digest
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