“Plans for a compressed natural gas distribution facility on Route 7 in Schenectady County were dropped last week by the project’s California-based developer as opponents vowed to mobilize against any efforts to relocate it.
Clean Energy, which wanted to build on a 53-acre site, withdrew its application Friday for a zoning variance from the town, according to Rob Nied, director of the non-profit Center for Sustainable Rural Communities, which had been assisting project opponents. A variance was needed because the land was zoned only for agricultural or residential use.
On Monday, Neid said plans called for the facility to take natural gas from the nearby Irquois pipeline and compress it for use as vehicle fuel, primarily for public buses in New York City. Dozens of fuel trucks daily would take gas from the facility.
He said the facility would have been near the Wright Compressor station, which is being eyed for connections by two new pipeline projects — one by Constitution and another by ENG/Kinder Morgan — that could carry natural gas from the Marcellus Shale fields of Pennsylvania into New York and the rest of the Northeast.
“This would essentially be fracked gas from Pennsylvania,” said Neid.”
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Nearing, Brian. Times Union 6 October 2014.