WADSWORTH — A number of Wayne County residents who turned up for what they believed would be a public comments meeting organized by a federal commission to air concerns about the NEXUS pipeline seemed to be equally upset with the project and the new format for the “meeting.”
Deb Adkins, whose house is within 100 feet or so of the original path, was surprised to discover FERC changed the format of the meeting.
Previous public comment meetings were held in auditoriums with people wishing to speak going to the front, speaking into a microphone and addressing FERC staff on a stage. The format Wednesday at Wadsworth High School was something new. Anyone wanting to speak signed in, received a number and, when called, went into a private room with a court reporter and offered …show more content…
I think it’s terrible.”
West also did not like the format.
“It deprives the rest of us,” West said. “I did not come here only to expound, but to hear others expound.”
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission released a draft environmental impact study of the NEXUS Gas Transmission line. Spectra Energy and DTE Energy are the lead developers, and the 255-mile pipeline was originally designed to come up from Kensington and travel north to meet up with a pipeline in Michigan and eventually make its way to Ontario, Canada. The 36-inch line will be capable of moving 1.5 billion cubic feet of natural gas a day and will not exceed a pressure of 1,440 pounds per square inch.
The original proposed line cuts through 6.6 miles of Chippewa Township. But, an alternate route FERC is considering would change the path of the line to cut through the southern portion of Wayne County and snake up the western portion of it. This is known as the city of Green alternative.
While people like Adkins and West want to see the path moved, there are those like Gary and Judy Alsdorf who don’t want to see it come by their property south of
Deb Adkins, whose house is within 100 feet or so of the original path, was surprised to discover FERC changed the format of the meeting.
Previous public comment meetings were held in auditoriums with people wishing to speak going to the front, speaking into a microphone and addressing FERC staff on a stage. The format Wednesday at Wadsworth High School was something new. Anyone wanting to speak signed in, received a number and, when called, went into a private room with a court reporter and offered …show more content…
I think it’s terrible.”
West also did not like the format.
“It deprives the rest of us,” West said. “I did not come here only to expound, but to hear others expound.”
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission released a draft environmental impact study of the NEXUS Gas Transmission line. Spectra Energy and DTE Energy are the lead developers, and the 255-mile pipeline was originally designed to come up from Kensington and travel north to meet up with a pipeline in Michigan and eventually make its way to Ontario, Canada. The 36-inch line will be capable of moving 1.5 billion cubic feet of natural gas a day and will not exceed a pressure of 1,440 pounds per square inch.
The original proposed line cuts through 6.6 miles of Chippewa Township. But, an alternate route FERC is considering would change the path of the line to cut through the southern portion of Wayne County and snake up the western portion of it. This is known as the city of Green alternative.
While people like Adkins and West want to see the path moved, there are those like Gary and Judy Alsdorf who don’t want to see it come by their property south of