PennEast pipeline protest
PennEast pipeline protestors gathered back in 2018 on the pedestrian bridge over the Delaware River from Lumberville, Pa., to Raven Rock, N.J. PHOTO BY MEG MCGUIRE
On Sunday, protestors joined hands on a pedestrian bridge across the Delaware River as a sign of their efforts to stop the Penn East Pipeline Project.
On Sept. 14, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers sent out a notice seeking public comment on the pipeline, a new 120-mile natural gas pipeline planned to run from Dallas Township in Luzerne County, PA to Hopewell Township in Mercer County N.J.
The pipeline would run under the Delaware River, as well as though communities in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Opponents point to a myriad of natural resources that would be destroyed or disturbed by the pipeline.
For three years, opponents of the Penn East pipeline have fought to keep the project at bay.
"Toady we want to celebrate opposition to the PennEast pipeline," said Doug O'Malley, the director of Environment New Jersey, "the grassroots movement that called out FERC and PennEast's outrageous attack on our valley."
