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New Jersey OKs gas pipeline through protected Pinelands
Associated Press ^ | Feb 24, 2017 4:32 PM EST | Wayne Parry

Posted on 02/24/2017 4:19:14 PM PST by Olog-hai

New Jersey environmental regulators on Friday approved a hotly contested plan to run a natural gas pipeline through a federally protected forest preserve amid raucous protests that included drums, tambourines and choruses of “This Land Is Your Land.”

The 15-member New Jersey Pinelands Commission voted to approve a plan by South Jersey Gas to run the pipeline through the federally protected Pinelands preserve, where development is drastically restricted. […]

It was the most emotionally charged jobs-vs-environment clash in recent New Jersey history, and was closely watched by environmental and energy groups around the nation, particularly with a new presidential administration seen as more supportive of the energy industry.

“As a priest, I will pray for you when you stand before the throne of God and you are asked to give an accounting of your stewardship of this special ecological area,” said Rev. David Stump, a Catholic priest from Jersey City. “May God have mercy on your souls.” …

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Local News
KEYWORDS: envirowackos; newjersey; pinelands; pipeline
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1 posted on 02/24/2017 4:19:14 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

There aren’t some protected, rare sand fleas there?


2 posted on 02/24/2017 4:20:45 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: Paladin2

better question are there no indian tribes to get stirred up or maybe some out of work SJW’s?


3 posted on 02/24/2017 4:25:53 PM PST by cherry (<_)
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To: cherry

Toss the injuns a few bucks for their “sacred lands” and it’s roll tide!!! You know how deeply spiritual dem injuns are.


4 posted on 02/24/2017 4:27:52 PM PST by Lord Castlereagh
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To: Paladin2

Just the endangered Jersey Devil. And pine trees.


5 posted on 02/24/2017 4:28:44 PM PST by SMGFan (Sarah Michelle Gellar is on twitter @SarahMGellar)
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To: Olog-hai

The biggest environmental concern in the Pine Barrens is not so much the land but what is under it - a huge, giant aquifer, built from thousands of years of rainfall passing through the near totally sandy soil. The “threat” to that from a natural gas pipeline is minimal and easily mitigated.


6 posted on 02/24/2017 4:30:30 PM PST by Wuli
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To: Olog-hai
They are going to use existing roads in most places. The pinelands are vast. Most people who have never been to New Jersey are amazed at how much unpopulated, forested land there is. The Fort Dix (now Joint Base) reservation takes up thousands of acres as well.
7 posted on 02/24/2017 4:31:30 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: Wuli
The biggest environmental concern in the Pine Barrens is not so much the land but what is under it - a huge, giant aquifer, built from thousands of years of rainfall passing through the near totally sandy soil.

Water from the aquifer is some of the cleanest, purest in the nation (if not the world). As you stated, the sandy soil has filtered it to an amazing degree. Those on well water have some of the purest and best tasting drinking water available.

The pipeline won't pose any hazard to that, as you stated.

8 posted on 02/24/2017 4:33:44 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: Olog-hai
I spent many,many a day in the Jersey Pines. Love it out there. lots of history out there. Old colonial tavern ruins and stage coach stops,cemeteries,cranberry bogs and blueberry fields. Some of the sugar sand roads go back to colonial days. The state of NJ owns part and some is US Forest. There are some great swimming holes out there too.
9 posted on 02/24/2017 4:34:41 PM PST by 4yearlurker (Work hard,live free,thank God!)
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To: Olog-hai


10 posted on 02/24/2017 4:40:28 PM PST by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: Olog-hai
“As a priest, I will pray for you when you stand before the throne of God and you are asked to give an accounting of your stewardship of this special ecological area,” said Rev. David Stump, a Catholic priest from Jersey City. “May God have mercy on your souls.” …

Drama queen.

11 posted on 02/24/2017 4:46:23 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Everywhere is freaks and hairies Dykes and fairies Tell me where is sanity?)
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To: Olog-hai

So was this approved despite the environmental impact studies on the protected Bigfoot species in the Pine Barrens?


12 posted on 02/24/2017 4:57:48 PM PST by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: 4yearlurker

Best off-road motorcycling in the state. Raced many events there. It’s rough in August. If you stop, the fleas feast.


13 posted on 02/24/2017 4:57:57 PM PST by paulcissa (Democrats want you unarmed so they can kill you.)
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To: Olog-hai

But if a farmer wants to re-plow the fields he and his ancestors plowed for several hundred years can’t anymore since the NJ guv’mint found a five legged spiked nose gopher beetle living on it.


14 posted on 02/24/2017 5:02:58 PM PST by SkyDancer (Ambition Without Talent Is Sad, Talent Without Ambition Is Worse)
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To: Olog-hai

I live in crappy jersey. I know better. We must protect the rainbow unicorn who live in the pinelands.


15 posted on 02/24/2017 5:06:21 PM PST by jr3000
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To: Jeff Chandler
Rev. Stump:


16 posted on 02/24/2017 5:18:53 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Olog-hai

How many bodies are they going to find?


17 posted on 02/24/2017 5:30:20 PM PST by Smellin Salt
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To: Cicero

Friggin’ Gaia worshiping pagan.


18 posted on 02/24/2017 5:47:05 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Everywhere is freaks and hairies Dykes and fairies Tell me where is sanity?)
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To: Cicero

Another ravening wolf among the fold.


19 posted on 02/24/2017 5:55:08 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Ah yes, the New Jersey Pinelands Commission - the group that says the little puddle that appears in my front yard every six months or so when we have a real heavy rain is officially a “wetlands” area and may not be built on in any way, even though I live in the middle of a fair sized town - they should all be unprotected and on the way to extinction.....


20 posted on 02/24/2017 6:01:45 PM PST by Intolerant in NJ
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