Farm family: Keep pipeline off our land [View all]
By Joe Mahoney Staff Writer The Daily Star
The operators of one of the largest family-run dairy farms in upstate New York are pleading with federal regulators to alter the pathway of the proposed Constitution Pipeline so that it does not cross their property.
The current route of the natural gas transmission system “will cause an unlimited amount of damages” to the Stanton Family Farm in the town of Schoharie, Peter Mauhs, a Cobleskill attorney representing farm owners Kenneth and Juanita Stanton said in a letter released this week by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
The pipeline company, a partnership of several significant players in the energy industry, is expected to file its formal application for a FERC license to construct the 120-mile transmission system next week.
While a majority of property owners along the route have allowed the pipeline company to conduct surveys of their parcels, scores have refused. And many of the landowners have urged the federal agency to reject the request for a license or order the pipeline company to co-locate the project along existing transmission line rights of way.
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