HARRISBURG, PA: State public utility regulators warned been are, reject efforts by a natural gas pipeline company could its unregulated pipelines are subject to the safety standards, but also help, it saves the power of eminent domain to private property.
An administrative law judge, in a decision posted online Wednesday, recommended that laser Northeast gathering Company LLC are not given status as a public utilities. The decision is preliminary, and the State public utility Commission has the final say in this matter.
"The service offered not", or for the public, is offered, as public utility code requires, but simply the commercial process used, will carry natural gas by the producers on the market, administrative law judge Susan D. Colwell in its decision 96 page wrote.
A decision will not come until next year after the parties in the case have the opportunity to submit comments on the Court decision.
The case has closely monitored were and stirred the utility standards of safety and using consumer complaints may concern from some private landowners in Northeast Pennsylvania and other pipeline companies that provide a precedent decision all collect gas lines subject to the Commission.
Thomas F. Karam, President and CEO of laser's owner, Delphi midstream Partners LLC, said he was not agree with the decision and that his company with the project will carry out.
Laser Northeast plans to build one 55 million US dollars pipeline for gas from the encourage Marcellus shale drilling operations in Susquehanna county to the Millennium pipeline ferry which animal runs New York's South. Karam expects to begin construction soon and it will be summer completed.
The company's application falls with the Marcellus shale gas drilling boom in Pennsylvania to pour reservoir largest natural gas companies and investors from around the world billions of dollars in the United States.
If a utility regulated could try laser northeast to try court approval, take private property to build its pipeline, although it had promised to do so only as a last resort and not, if it requires abandonment or destruction of houses, lakes or ponds.
Karam said any eminent domain case would be extremely rare and in any case, it was the primary reasons for the application under laser. Rather, laser wants his pipes along public streets and rights of way, laying without meeting each individual community zoning rules, he said.
Collecting gas lines, the transmission lines well link are currently unregulated in Pennsylvania, although the utility Commission, the legislature asked grant it the power to enforce safety standards.
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