The Trump administration will celebrate the groundbreaking of a controversial new natural gas pipeline in New York City on Tuesday \u2014 with the project set to run off the coast of the city to boost the region\u2019s energy supply.<\/p>\n
President Trump strongly backs the Northeast Supply Enhancement pipeline and used his influence to persuade Democratic Gov. Kathy\u00a0Hochul to approve the permits allowing the project to proceed, despite fierce opposition from anti-fossil fuel environmentalists.<\/p>\n
Energy Secretary Chris Wright, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Environmental Protection Secretary Lee Zeldin will attend the event at Brooklyn\u2019s Floyd Bennett Field, hosted by Williams Companies, the firm managing the construction.<\/p>\n
Burgum claimed China outpaced America\u2019s electricity production because past administrations put US \u201cenergy and national security at risk by burying America\u2019s Balance Sheet under red tape.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lee Zeldin will attend the ceremonial groundbreaking. REUTERS<\/p>\n
\u201cUnder President Donald J. Trump, we\u2019re reversing course with projects like the NESE pipeline to unleash American Energy Dominance, lower costs for American consumers, and restore a strong, reliable grid, Burgum said. <\/p>\n
He claimed the project would spur $1.8 billion in economic development and lower electricity bills by $6 billion over 15 years.<\/p>\n
The pipeline \u2014 which would extend from Pennsylvania through New Jersey and end on Staten Island and the Rockaways \u2014 had been stalled for years after state regulators denied permits over water quality concerns.<\/p>\n
But the state restarted the approval process for the natural gas project after an Oval Office meeting between Hochul and Trump regarding congestion pricing.<\/p>\n
Protesters against the pipline gather in New York on Aug. 9, 2025. James Keivom<\/p>\n
Federal officials said the NESE pipeline project will boost reliability during peak winter demand and extreme weather.<\/p>\n
Natural gas demand surged by 49% since 2013 while pipeline capacity increased by only 26% and storage capacity by just 2%, officials said.<\/p>\n
The NESE Project is designed to provide 400,000 dekatherms per day of natural gas to serve existing National Grid customers in Brooklyn, Queens, and Long Island\u00a0 \u2014 equivalent to the energy needs of 2.3 million homes.<\/p>\n
Williams\u2019 NESE project expands the existing Transco natural gas pipeline system, which already serves parts of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York.<\/p>\n
The pipeline will be installed at a minimum of 4 feet below the sea floor through a combination of jet trenching, clamshell dredging, backfilling, and horizontal directional drilling.<\/p>\n
Hochul approved the state permits for the project last November.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are facing war against clean energy from Washington Republicans, including our New York delegation, which is why we have adopted an all-of-the-above approach that includes a continued commitment to renewables and nuclear power to ensure grid reliability and affordability,\u201d she said in a statement at the time.<\/p>\n
A natural gas rig in Pennsylvania. The Trump admin\u2019s pipeline would extend from the Keystone State, through New Jersey and end on Staten Island and the Rockaways. REUTERS<\/p>\n
\u201cI am comfortable that in approving the permits, including a water quality certification, for the NESE application, the DEC did just that.\u201d<\/p>\n
EPA Secretary Zeldin, a former Long Island congressman, said the groundbreaking marks a massive milestone and will help meet \u201cthe growing energy demand of this region.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI, like so many New Yorkers, am extremely grateful for President Trump\u2019s leadership, along with his National Energy Dominance Council, for getting the permits necessary to allow this project to advance,\u201d Zeldin said. \u201cWe celebrate this incredible accomplishment and will continue pursuing every way possible to make life more affordable for all Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n
Zeldin said next on the priority list is getting the Constitution Pipeline approved \u201cto allow many New England residents to tap into the same abundant resources, especially during brutally cold winter months.\u201d<\/p>\n
The NY DEC nixed the project from running through upstate.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlbany Democrats need to stop blocking the jobs, resources, and lower energy costs that will come with this vital project,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Trump administration will celebrate the groundbreaking of a controversial new natural gas pipeline in New York City…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[153,4762,19338,57,5588,9,56,63,65,64,16970,87,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-196141","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-energy","10":"tag-lee-zeldin","11":"tag-metro","12":"tag-natural-gas","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-nyc-headlines","17":"tag-nyc-news","18":"tag-pipeline","19":"tag-politics","20":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}