Concerned Landowners along the Atlantic Sunrise pipeline will be having their next coalition meeting on Wednesday, May 6th at 7PM at the Tunkhannock Library.
The coalition of landowners spanning the pipeline route in Susquehanna, Wyoming, and Luzerne Counties are inviting elected officials, environmental groups, and concerned community members to the next meeting to learn more about the project, address shared concerns, and ways to move forward together.
On March 31, Williams Partners Co. filed their formal application requesting eminent domain condemnation power for the Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). The proposed Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline would create a new 100 foot wide right of way, seized from landowners along the route, connecting shale gas wells in Susquehanna and Wyoming counties to pipelines serving the approved Cove Point Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) export terminal in Lusby, Md.
Landowners throughout the pipeline right of way fear that their livelihoods and rights as property owners are at stake. Some landowners are concerned about their safety, others are concerned about the decrease in property value, or the effect it will have to their water resources and the decrease access or use to their land, both economically and recreationally.
The pipeline poses other risks to the community. This project would have a long term detrimental impact on the landscape; affecting water quality as it crosses creeks, state game lands, and preserved land and forests.
The $2 billion project is expected to take three years to complete, most of it involving a review process by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which must approve it. The company hopes to complete the project in the second half of 2017.
The Tunkhannock Library is located at 220 West Tioga Street in Tunkhannock, PA. The event is hosted by Energy Justice Network and Concerned Landowners Along the Atlantic Sunrise (CLAAS). For more information please call 570-281-2215.