{"id":30989,"date":"2018-02-14T07:44:05","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T12:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=30989"},"modified":"2018-02-14T07:44:05","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T12:44:05","slug":"energy-ceo-says-fracking-build-out-in-new-york-not-over-wants-regulators-to-lay-down-and-approve-every-pipeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=30989","title":{"rendered":"Energy CEO Says Fracking Build-out in New York Not Over, Wants Regulators to &#8216;Lay Down and Approve Every Pipeline&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 id=\"page-title\" class=\"page__title title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/2018\/02\/13\/crestwood-robert-phillips-new-york-fracking-seneca-lake-midstream-marcellus\">Energy CEO Says Fracking Build-out in New York Not Over, Wants Regulators to &#8216;Lay Down and Approve Every Pipeline&#8217;<\/a><\/h3>\n<article class=\"node-12629 node node-blog node-promoted view-mode-full clearfix\">\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-bimage field-type-image field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/sites\/beta.desmogblog.com\/files\/styles\/full_width_blog_image\/public\/blogimages\/Crestwood%20Seneca%20Lake%20High%20Res.jpg?itok=eESjrjHT\" alt=\"Crestwood natural gas compressor sign in Seneca Lake, New York\" width=\"826\" height=\"364\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"new-horizontal-social-bar clearfix\">\n<div class=\"new-horizontal-share-wrapper new-horizontal-email-wrapper clearfix last\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>At a pipeline industry conference in Pittsburgh on January\u00a031, Robert G. Phillips, <span class=\"caps\">CEO<\/span> and President of Crestwood Equity Partners, offered an unusually candid perspective on pipelines, fracking, environmental regulations, and how industry plans to fight back against public opposition and permitting\u00a0problems.<\/p>\n<p>This past May, Crestwood <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecowatch.com\/seneca-lake-plan-halted-2402850134.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> that it was halting plans for a natural gas storage facility in the Finger Lakes region of New York following a three-year civil disobedience campaign by grassroots activists and environmentalists who feared contamination of Seneca Lake, which supplies drinking water to roughly 100,000 New Yorkers. But as Phillips told the conference, the company isn&#8217;t backing off for\u00a0good.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, this is hand-to-hand combat in this region,\u201d Phillips told the crowd of oil and gas company representatives at the pipeline conference, dubbed Marcellus Midstream\u00a02018.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to be ninja-like,\u201d Phillips said, in recommendation to his industry colleagues. \u201cThe owners and the contractors have to work together not just to get it done on-budget, on-time, but to get it done quietly, softly, as least-disruptively as\u00a0possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Crestwood certainly encountered a different type of disruption in\u00a0New York. There,\u00a0over 400 people, including Ithaca College scholar Sandra Steingraber, local business owners, and religious leaders, were arrested for trespass or disorderly conduct outside Crestwood&#8217;s Gallery 2 Expansion project, where the company still hopes to store up to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pressconnects.com\/story\/news\/local\/2017\/11\/23\/appeal-seeks-derail-lpg-storage-ny-plan-seneca-lake\/876314001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2.1 million barrels<\/a> of liquid fossil fuels in salt caverns under Seneca Lake, according to the grassroots campaign We Are Seneca\u00a0Lake.<\/p>\n<p>Crestwood Equity Partners, a master limited partnership which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20130506005691\/en\/Crestwood-Inergy-Merge-Forming-7-Billion-Midstream\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">merged with Inergy<\/a> in 2013, currently uses truck and rail to transport propane and other liquid fossil fuels, but, Phillips explained, the company would\u00a0rather be able to ship by pipeline. Some of the company&#8217;s plans in New York state, however, hit strong public\u00a0opposition.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Energy CEO Says Fracking Build-out in New York Not Over, Wants Regulators to &#8216;Lay Down and Approve Every Pipeline&#8217; At a pipeline industry conference in Pittsburgh on January\u00a031, Robert G. 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