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PennEast Pipeline (Past)
October 2021 update:
The Sourland Conservancy and our partners from across NJ and PA have been fighting against the ill-conceived and unnecessary PennEast pipeline for over seven years.
This month PennEast announced: “PennEast partners… recently determined further development of the Project no longer is supported… accordingly, PennEast has ceased all further development of the Project.”
If you supported the Sourland Conservancy in the past seven years …
YOU ARE PART OF THIS VICTORY
Because of our members and supporters, we were able to mobilize people for testimony, petitions, lawsuits, protests, letter-writing campaigns, twitter-storms, and other actions that led to this outcome.
Activism in Action: A Model for Environmental Justice
Along the way, we participated in a successful campaign led by Delaware Riverkeeper to push the Delaware River Basin Commission to ban fracking in the Delaware watershed. This has been a goal of local groups for decades, and we were a constant presence at DRBC hearings every time PennEast and fracking were on the agenda.
So many elected officials in the affected municipalities and counties stood with us in this fight, plus we had the commitment of Congressional Representatives Bonnie Watson-Coleman and Tom Malinowski on the federal level. Cultivating them and educating their staff on the issues as part of the work you supported.
When PennEast went to the Supreme Court, our partners submitted amicus briefs and worked with the NJ Office of the Attorney General to stop them from taking preserved lands for their pipeline, and even when SCOTUS ruled in their favor, we didn’t back down.
Although FERC had given them a permit, in New Jersey our coalition’s pressure on the NJDEP led to the failure of PennEast to acquire water quality certification and wetlands permits under Section 401 of the Clean Water Act.
This is a model of what can happen when activists of all stripes work together to fight against corporate environmental profiteering. Thank you for supporting this work. Let’s enjoy a few moments of savoring this victory and then we’ll get back to work protecting the Sourlands and enjoying the beauty and history of this jewel of an ecoscape.
The Sourland Conservancy was a leader in the fight against this dirty, dangerous pipeline.
The PennEast pipeline is a proposed pipeline construction project headed by company PennEast. The pipeline would run through Pennsylvania to New Jersey, even cutting into our own beloved Sourland Mountain region. Penn East has claimed it will be beneficial for residents, but has not denied that fracked gas may be sent to offshore companies. Families will be uprooted from their homes, preserved natural areas will be ripped up, ecosystems will be permanently damaged and potential pollution can leak into waterways.
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