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Constitution Pipeline Co. LLC has resubmitted an application for a water quality permit from the New York Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and said it expects to begin construction of the pipeline, which would transport Marcellus Shale natural gas from Pennsylvania to markets in the northeast, within months.

Constitution Pipeline Co. LLC has resubmitted an application for a water quality permit from the New York Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and said it expects to begin construction of the pipeline, which would transport Marcellus Shale natural gas from Pennsylvania to markets in the northeast, within months.

The Constitution Pipeline, which would carry Marcellus Shale natural gas to markets in the Northeast, has cleared another hurdle with a federal court ruling that it can access and build across land owned by seven property owners in Pennsylvania that opposed the project.

The size and complexity of the Constitution Pipeline and Wright Interconnect projects has prompted the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to ask FERC to extend the comment period for the associated draft environmental impact statement (DEIS).

Looking to facilitate local natural gas service to homes and businesses in southern New York and northern Pennsylvania that have never had the option before, Constitution Pipeline Co. LLC and Leatherstocking Gas Co. LLC announced plans this week to install four delivery taps along Constitution's proposed pipeline route. Gas could flow to these targeted municipalities by late 2015.

A pair of pipeline projects designed to carry natural gas from the Marcellus Shale to markets in the Northeast would have adverse environmental impacts that could be mitigated, FERC said Wednesday.

Mexico’s federal government-dominated energy sector continues to be the focus of reform talk by the country’s presidential administration, with disclosures by the new CEO at Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) that he will form a new company within the state-operated oil and natural gas giant specifically to go after shale and deep water Gulf of Mexico (GOM) supplies outside of Mexico.

There is “significant concern” among oil and gas interests that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court could deadlock in a 3-3 tie over the constitutionality of Act 13 because the high court’s newest appointee will not participate in the case challenging the law.

Industry needs all the help it can get to fulfill visions of a northern energy mother lode that the Canol Shale exploration campaign is reviving, said a geologist.