TOWN OF NEWBURGH – The proposed Pilgrim
Pipeline that would run from New Jersey to Albany is being opposed by
the Newburgh Town Board.
Town Supervisor Gilbert Piaquadio said council members are not sold on
the project.
“A lot of crude oil comes from out west and it comes to Albany,
by rail car, and it gets to a refinery in New Jersey – whether it
is by rail car or barge,” he said. Once it is refined, the product
– oil, gas, or jet fuel, would come back north through a second
pipeline.
Newburgh town officials are concerned about, among things, the proposed
pipeline route by the town’s water supply.
