NEW LIBSON, NJ-The New Jersey Pinelands Commission on Friday rejected a plan by South Jersey Gas to build a 22-mile natural gas pipeline that would run through the Pinelands region of the state.
The project required eight votes to win approval. The plan failed in a 7-7 vote, according to the Associated Press.
New Jersey Sierra Club Director Jeff Tittel called the decision "a great victory for the Pinelands and the environment of the region." He added, “The commissioners did their job to protect the Pinelands region, its water supply and its unique ecosystem from a polluting fossil fuel pipeline."
The plan called fro South Jersey Gas to pay $8 million to a Pinelands fund for an exemption from a ban on new transmission lines in the 1.1-million-acre reserve. See story in the Star-Ledger.
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