The agreement, which is a result of discussions and negotiations with the steering committee representing the group, provides landowner and environmental safeguards and protections while also allowing LNGC the required access to construct the pipeline in a safe and reliable manner.
Thomas Karam, CEO of LNGC, said: “We reached this agreement because of the diligence, hard work and cooperation of the Windsor steering committee. It represents a new ‘high water mark’ by providing substantial levels of environmental protection and at the same time recognizing appropriate value to the landowner.
“We now have signed most of the required easements and are filing all necessary permit applications in order to begin construction.”
Laser’s natural gas gathering project is proposed to run 21 miles from Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, to the New York border, then another 9 miles within Broome County, New York to where it interconnects with the Millennium interstate pipeline in the Town of Windsor.
The entire system will consist of approximately 178,000ft of 16″ diameter steel pipeline with an additional 32,000ft of 12″ diameter or smaller steel pipeline laterals in Susquehanna County.
