Lawsuit rejected for Constitution Pipeline
Published by Stephanie Roker,
Editor
World Pipelines,
In August, owners of the Constitution Pipeline were disappointed when the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit rejected a lawsuit by the owners. The lawsuit claimed that the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) had overstepped its bounds in denying a water quality permit to the 124 mile pipeline.
The Constitution Pipeline is intended to carry natural gas from the Marcellus Shale in Pennsylvania, into New York.
Nevertheless, the pipeline's owners – which include Williams Partners (Tulsa, Oklahoma), Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation (Houston, Texas), Duke Energy Corporation (Charlotte, North Carolina) and WGL Holdings Incorporated (Washington, D.C.) – have vowed that the fight is not over.
Read the article online at: https://www.worldpipelines.com/project-news/12092017/lawsuit-rejected-for-constitution-pipeline/
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