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Clear-cutting starts for Constitution Pipeline
Published March 16, 2016.
March 2016 Megan Holleran
By MICHAEL SCHREIBER
Despite protests by residents and environmental groups, clear cutting of
trees has begun in northeastern Pennsylvania for the 124-mile
Constitution Pipeline, designed to carry Marcellus Shale fracked gas to
New York and New England.
Megan Holleran says that the loggers are destroying about 90 percent of
her family’s sugar maple trees, devastating their syrup business. Her
family maintained in court that the pipeline construction outfit, led by
Williams Partners LLC, had no right to seize their land under the rules
of eminent domain since the gas is destined to be exported, rather than
being used for the “public good.” Over a hundred protesters came to the
Hollerans’ Susquehanna County farm in February, to support the family’s
attempt to stop the clear cut.
On Feb. 18, U.S. District Court Judge Malachy Mannion in Scranton, Pa.,
dismissed the Hollerans’ court suit and gave the go-ahead for the
loggers to cut down the trees—just as harvest time is about to begin in
the maple groves. In fact, the judge expanded the area to be logged,
authorizing a 150-foot-wide “safety barrier” of cleared land. The
government and pipeline construction firm “refused to see us as people,
and brought guns to our home,” said Megan Holleran, referring to the
U.S. marshals and company strong-arms guarding the site.
All together, some 750,000 trees in the path of the pipeline are due to
be felled—mainly in New York State. Most of the route goes through
rugged mountainous areas, which are already prone to erosion and
flooding during rain storms, according to local people.
Logging has been halted in New York by Attorney General Eric
Schneiderman since the state has not yet granted environmental approval.
Anti-pipeline activists have called on New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to
refuse permits for the pipeline. Megan Holleran took part in a news
conference in Albany on March 2.
The pipeline would be owned and run by a consortium of powerful oil and
gas companies. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved
construction of the Constitution Pipeline in December 2014 as the first
installation within a network of new pipelines that are planned
throughout the region.
Photo: Megan Holleran speaks to reporters about the seizure and
destruction of her family’s maple farm in order to build the pipeline.
Vera Scroggins / DCMediaGroup
Posted in Environment. | Tagged climate, fracking, global warming,
Holleran, Pennsylvania, pipelines.
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