Mike Petro is a graduate of Vestal Senior High School and currently a student at Broome Community College (BCC) working towards an AS in Environmental Science. He has been accepted at Binghamton University for the Fall 2013 semester, where he looks to obtain a bachelors degree in Environmental Studies: Policy and Law. He is currently enrolled in BCC’s Community Internship course and is interning with the Vestal Gas Coalition. He will be submitting a series of posts on the natural gas industry. Here’s his first.

Local natural gas for local people. That’s the message of Leatherstocking Gas Company, a joint venture between Corning Natural Gas Corporation and Mirabito Holdings Inc., who in a recent presentation to the Joint Landowners Coalition of New York (JLCNY) laid out their plans to provide the rural areas of Northern Pennsylvania and the Southern Tier, once neglected by local utilities, with affordable, clean burning, locally produced natural gas.

Leatherstocking Gas Company (LGC) has been in operation as a Local Gas Distribution Company since September 27, 2012, and as such is fully regulated by the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission and New York State Public Service Commission. Operating exclusively as a natural gas distribution company means LGC does not work to drill, harvest, or collect natural gas in the area.

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