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 chooses to ignore them because it is nothing more than an arm of the
gas industry,” Malick said.
