Nassau Supervisor David Fleming has led a group demanding more time to read extensive documentation about Kinder-Morgan’s proposed gas pipeline through Southern Rensselaer County and Northern Berkshire County, made available late in the comment period, which he called a “document dump.” The high pressure pipeline would run through Nassau, and it includes a large compressor station sited in an area Fleming describes as residential.
[private]Fleming said, “I would like to thank the thousands of impacted residents as well as the public officials, that have joined together to call on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to extend the public comment period on the proposed Tennessee Gas Pipeline project. This massive project would blast through Rensselaer County and permanently damage the hamlets of Clarks Chapel/Burden Lake. We have just received official notice that FERC has extended this comment period until October 16, 2015. This extension is vital for our impacted communities to comprehensively review the more than 6,000 pages of information that have been dumped on them.”[/private]