The Delaware Riverkeeper a/k/a Povertykeeper has lost yet again in pursuing a challenge to a pipeline project that should have received no opposition at all.

A year after Delaware Riverkeeper filed a request for a rehearing of an approval for the Tennessee Gas Pipeline (TGP) Orion Project, FERC has rejected it. What’s interesting is two-fold; how FERC handled the rehearing request and its rejection of the Delaware Riverkeeper cumulative impact argument. There’s also the little matter of where the Povertykeeper gets the money to pursue its long legal slog against any natural gas development.

In October 2015, Kinder Morgan’s Tennessee Gas Pipeline (TGP) filed an application with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) seeking approval for the Orion Project. The $109 million project consists of 13 miles of new “looping” pipeline in Pike and Wayne counties, Pennsylvania. The project boosts capacity on the TGP by another 135 million cubic feet per day (MMcf/d), allowing TGP to pump more yummy Marcellus Shale gas to Mid-Atlantic and New England states.

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http://naturalgasnow.org/delaware-riverkeeper-aka-povertykeeper-loses-yet-court/