A major expansion of a natural gas transmission pipeline that crisscrosses Wayne County is moving ahead as scheduled, said a company spokesperson. El Paso Corp., of Houston, TX, will build a second pipeline - next to a pre-existing one - which will enhance transmission capacity for natural gas to better serve energy markets and to parlay off a burgeoning natural gas extraction market already underway in the Commonwealth and in the region. The line, also known as the Tennessee Gas Pipeline, cuts across the state’s northern tier and all of Wayne County, generally north of Waymart and Honesdale.
“It’s going along as planned,” said El Paso spokesperson Robert Newberry in a phone interview with The Wayne Independent on Monday. “Everything is pending for approval and permits.”
Although ground is not expected to be broken until at least mid-2010, the company has been requesting information from county municipalities, in order to properly abide by local construction codes and laws.
“We’re on schedule as far as all our filings go,” said Newberry.
The project involves installing 128-miles of new line - 30-inches in diameter, in Pa. and N.J., which follows an existing transmission line that is buried underground in Wayne County. This will significantly increase the volume of natural gas able to be transmitted. In addition, natural gas extraction companies routinely tie onto this line, and others, to get the energy commodity to market.
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