The Kinder Morgan pipeline comapny is trying to build a natural gas pipeline through Otis State Forest in Sandisfield MA, where the four New England Tribal Historation Officers have documented 73 Ceremonial Stone Landscape artifacts on the proposed route of the pipeline. The Massachusetts Audubon Society spent $5 million to purchase and dedicate this preserve to conservation purposes. The current route impacts a third of the ancient remains within the forest, which are possibly as old as 2000 BC.
The Narraganset Indian
Tribe filed for a rehearing (FERC docket
CP14-529, subdocket 002,
5/10/17) on the Federal law of this issue, the gas line company has filed
an answer (5/24/17), and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on
5/24/17 said it will issue a decision. Consideration of an alternate route
may be the result of the legal action.
The FERC bureaucratic decision
is likely to be influenced by the number of comments which are filed about the
issue. The large number of comments has been instrumental in slowing and
possibly stopping the construction of the similar Northern Pass powerline
project across the length of New Hampshire, in large part by diverting the
likely flow of electric power to alternate proposed routes.
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I have filed a comment, and
recommend that others who read this message send in their 200 (or 6000)
words on the issue. To file a comment, go to www.ferc.gov; mouse to "documents and
filings" and on the drop-down menu choose "eComment" and follow further
directions given. To read other people's comments go to http://elibrary.ferc.gov , enter the docket
number CV14-529, pick your date range, and click submit. See especially
Mr. Cachat's letter of 1/13/17.
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