Constitution Pipeline Approved By Obama Administration -- December 4, 2014

The AP is reporting:

Federal energy regulators have approved a $700 million pipeline project designed to ferry cheap Marcellus Shale natural gas from Pennsylvania into high-priced markets in New England and New York.

Data points:

• 124 miles
• could be operational by next winter (2015 - 2016)
• Williams Partners and Cabot Oil & Gas are lead partners
• will be about half the cost of Gulf of Mexico gas that is typically sold in the northeast
• route: from Penssylvania's Susquehanna County through New York's Broome, Chenango, and Delaware Counties, to connect with the existing Tennessee and Iroquois pipelines in Schoharie County, 80 miles southwest of Albany

A map can be seen at this link, and a bit of schadenfreude.

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