The final vote on the South Jersey Gas Pipeline at the Pinelands Commission Meeting, January 10, 2014
Rancocas Watershed
Ambassador . . . . . .2
Dr. James Still’s
Historic Property ....3
Letter from Former
Governors ............4
How the
Commission...
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The final vote on the South Jersey Gas Pipeline at the Pinelands Commission Meeting, January 10, 2014
Rancocas Watershed
Ambassador . . . . . .2
Dr. James Still’s
Historic Property ....3
Letter from Former
Governors ............4
How the
Commission Voted
on the Pipeline ...6
Event Calendar ... 7
A Victory for the Pinelands
February/March 2014
Volume 21
Number 2
continued on page 5
by Carleton Montgomery, Executive Director
Against enormous odds, the environment
prevailed on January 10th when the Pinelands
Commission voted down a resolution to allow
construction of a natural gas pipeline in a
protected part of New Jersey’s Pinelands. The
commission’s vote defeated a proposed
“memorandum of agreement” that would waive
basic Pinelands rules and allow construction of a
pipeline that would bring natural gas to the B.L.
England power plant at the Jersey Shore.
The proposal grew out of a plan by Rockland
Capital Energy Investments LLC, a Texas-based
firm that inve
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