![]() ![]() ![]() He said the New Jersey Department of Environmental Conservation (DEP) must certify it will not alter the water quality, but that there’s “no way” the DEP can give such an assurance. There was no way the project should have been certified, he said. Jeff Tittel, director of the New Jersey Sierra Club, said the exemption through which the pipeline expansion received its approval from the Highlands Council was not designed to build a sperate line. The Highlands Council in November approved Tennessee Gas’s application for the West Milford compressor and a flood hazard verification permit. Any contamination of those reservoirs would threaten the water supply for three million New Jersey residents. Much of the focus was on the proposed West Milford compressor, which is inside the Highlands Preservation Area and near streams that flow into the Monksville and Wanaque Reservoirs. “None of that gas is for use here,” he said. Matt Smith, New Jersey director of the Food and Water Watch, said the gas is going to be used so new homes in New York State can be developed with natural gas. The pipeline sends methane gas harvested from the Marcellus Shale through Pennsylvania into New Jersey through Sussex, Passaic, and Bergen counties before it reaches its destination in Westchester County, N.Y., where it will be used by Con Edison. In June, Tennessee Gas proposed its East 300 Upgrade, which includes a new 19,000 horsepower fracked gas compressor station along its pipeline in West Milford at 960 Burt Meadow Road, and a new 20,000-horsepower compressor at 164 Libertyville Road in Wantage that will triple the size of the existing compressor. Health problems were just an example of the hazards discussed at a virtual town hall meeting, held by Empower NJ, that discussed pending compressor stations to be built by the Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company in West Milford, N.J., and Wantage, N.J. She links her symptoms to the compressor station near her former home, but their cause is difficult to prove. They didn’t get better until she moved to Albuquerque, N.M. After it began operations, she started feeling dizzy, lightheaded, and muscle pain, symptoms that would only get worse. Her health was deteriorating so badly, Asha Canalos abandoned her home on an organic farm in Minisink, N.Y., and move across the country.Ĭanalos lived about a quarter mile from a compressor station on the Millennium pipeline. ![]()
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