After finishing a 108-mile walk along the route of the proposed Constitution Pipeline in New York, advocates rallied Tuesday at the state Capitol.<\/p>\n
It was to pressure Gov. Kathy Hochul to \u201cstand strong\u201d against the Trump administration\u2019s attempts to force the pipeline through.<\/p>\n
The project is a 125-mile, 30-inch natural gas pipeline designed to run from Pennsylvania\u2019s fracking fields through New York counties to connect with regional networks.<\/p>\n
Advocates at Tuesday\u2019s rally say they don\u2019t want it.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy fear is that not enough people love water or understand the importance of water,\u201d said Cheryl Angel. \u201cSo, we created this walk to cherish water and show people how valuable it is.\u201d<\/p>\n
Advocates say their concern is the pipeline will harm the \u201crivers, lakes and streams\u201d along its route in New York if it\u2019s built.<\/p>\n
To further highlight this concern, the group walked through the Capitol to deliver water collected from the bodies of water from their walk to the governor\u2019s office.<\/p>\n
In a statement to Spectrum News 1, the governor\u2019s office said in part:<\/p>\n
“There is no proposal for Constitution pipeline currently before New York State,\u201d said Ken Lovett, Senior Communications Advisor on Energy and Environment for Governor Kathy Hochul. “The Department of Environmental Conservation sent back the application three times to the developer for lack of completeness. The developer then pulled the application and is looking for the federal government to circumvent New York’s permitting process, a move the state has sued over to protect our oversight rights.”<\/p>\n
During the event, Spectrum News 1 asked demonstrators if they were in communication with the Trump administration following EPA administrator Lee Zeldin\u2019s visit to Binghamton in June to pressure Hochul to approve the project.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur organizers were there in Binghamton when he was there saying a lot of the same things that you\u2019re hearing today about being impacted residents who live in this state,\u201d said Renee Vogelsang, New York director of Frack Action.<\/p>\n
The pipeline\u2019s builder, Williams Companies, is reportedly trying to have the pipeline online by the end of 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After finishing a 108-mile walk along the route of the proposed Constitution Pipeline in New York, advocates rallied…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[206,9,11,10,49,51,50,12,5304,112,108,87,200],"class_list":["post-369492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-albany-capital-region","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-news","tag-nicole-neuman","tag-ny-state-of-politics","tag-ny-state-of-politics-blog","tag-politics","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369492","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=369492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}