WAWAYANDA – The Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission’s denial of a rehearing request on
pipeline extension approvals in the Hudson Valley is nothing new, Protect
Orange County founder Pramilla Malick said.
Malick has been in the forefront of the effort to block the CPV power
plant from being built and placed online. It is to be fueled with natural
gas delivered from the pipeline.
Late in the week, FERC rejected requests from the Delaware Riverkeeper
and Malick to rehear its authorization for construction and operational
projects related to the Millennium Pipeline.
Malick said her request “referenced all the relevant background
facts that are already part of the record for the Minisink Compressor
Station docket.” FERC said her request was insufficient as it did
not go into any detail.
“FERC never agrees to rehearing requests and routinely tolls orders
to deprive citizens of their basic due process rights,” Malick countered.
“I did not expect any real consideration of the matter by FERC.”
She said in 2012, her group presented evidence that Millennium planned
to expand the Neversink segment. “While Millennium then denied it,
here they are in 2018 doing exactly that. FERC is well aware of the games
and choose to ignore them because it is nothing more than an arm of the
gas industry,” Malick claimed.
