Northeast Energy Direct (NED) is DEAD! After years of BEAT/No Fracked Gas in Mass staff traveling across New England to give presentations on why this proposed pipeline was not clean, was not safe, was not reliable, and why we didn’t need this gas – often presenting at the same meeting as Kinder Morgan – we finally won. Along the way, thousands of activists and dozens of groups joined this fight. Thank you one and all!
This huge new fracked gas pipeline was proposed to enter Massachusetts in the town of Hancock. Originally Kinder Morgan (parent company of Tennessee Gas) has planned on Richmond, but they changed plans. Of course, they may change again. From Hancock the proposed pipeline would travel across western Massachusetts, then up into New Hampshire, back down into Massachusetts again to a natural gas hub in Dracut, Massachusetts. The proposed pipeline would cut through forests and across waterways and wetlands, would have a diameter of from 30 to 36 inches, and would carry approximately 2.2 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day under a pressure of up to 1,460 pounds per square inch*. The project is proposed to come online in November of 2018.
For the latest information on the opposition to this pipeline and what you can do to help stop it, please visit No Fracked Gas in Mass.
September 15, 2014 – Tennessee Gas Pipeline company applied to Pre-File with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). You can view the Pre-Filing documents online. Go to FERC.gov. Click on the Documents & Filings tab, scroll down to e-Library. In the e-Library, click on General Search. Scroll down to Docket No. and fill in PF14-22. This will bring up the documents filed thus far. There are maps that are much more detailed than we had access to previously. October 2, 2014 – The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) accepted TGP’s application to pre-file
Click here for a pdf of TGP’s Public Participation Plan.
TGP plans to hold approximately twelve open houses between Wright, NY and Dracut, MA. These are happening through April 2015 – about two months after TGP thought they would be done with Open houses. Kinder Morgan cannot answer specific questions at these Open Houses that BEAT feels they should have to answer. We request that new open houses be held once we can get answers to:
– Where do you plan to cross this river, or that drinking water aquifer, or this lake?
– Where will you locate the compressor station that you say might be in Windsor?
– How be a staging area will you need and where will it be located for work in my area?
We feel these are pretty basic questions that should have answers by now.
In addition, we would like to see photos of compressor stations that are as large as the ones TGP is proposing to build in Windsor. As far as we can tell, Kinder Morgan/TGP has never build a compressor station nearly as large, and we can’t find a compressor station that size on the east coast.
Click here for the Kinder Morgan Northeast Energy Direct website.
Kinder Morgan’s toll-free telephone number (844) 277-1047, for Project, and
dedicated email address, nedinfo@kindermorgan.com.
Click here for more on how to navigate the FERC site.
* Pressure figure is from Kinder Morgan representative speaking at public meeting in Richmond, MA.