August 2021, Vol. 248, No. 8
Editor's Notebook
Midstream Wins a Big One
By Michael Reed, Editor-in-Chief As most of you know, the U.S. Supreme Court, in what some people including me would consider at least a minor surprise, upheld PennEast Pipeline’s authority to use eminent domain to acquire access to state property. The 36-inch, 116-mile (187-km) pipeline was approved by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) back in 2018 and has faced a myriad of challenges ever since – one of which, obtaining the remaining permitting from the state of New Jersey for the second phase, could be more difficult to surmount than this high court victory. New Jersey has continued to oppose the pipeline’s construction throughout the process
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