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Meetings slated to discuss pipeline

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Meetings slated to discuss pipeline

Swanton to host 1st Wednesday

Swanton will host the first of six marathon-length public meetings to discuss a federal regulatory agency’s finding that the proposed NEXUS Gas Transmission pipeline can be built without significantly harming the environment.

The first meeting is scheduled for 5 p.m. Wednesday at Swanton High School, 604 N. Main St., Swanton.

Other area public meetings include sessions Thursday at Tecumseh Center for the Arts, 400 N. Maumee St., Tecumseh, Mich., and on Aug. 15 at the Quality Inn Fremont, 3422 Port Clinton Rd., Fremont. Additional meetings are scheduled for Aug. 16 in Elyria, Ohio; Aug. 17 in Wadsworth, Ohio, and Aug. 18 in Uniontown, Ohio.

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Each begins at 5 p.m. and are scheduled to last up to five hours, until 10 p.m.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission oversees the pipeline project and most controversies associated with it, including a proposed compressor station near Waterville that drew objections from 600 people who packed the Waterville Primary Community Room for an Ohio Environmental Protection Agency meeting in March.

The Ohio EPA has said its jurisdiction is limited to air emissions from the proposed compressor station, which would be built in Waterville Township along Moosman Drive, south of Neapolis Waterville Road.

FERC has jurisdiction over other issues, such as siting.

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The Waterville-area compressor station would help move natural gas along a 255-mile pipeline NEXUS wants to build in collaboration with Texas Eastern Transmission, LP.

The companies plan to pump natural gas from the Utica and Marcellus shale regions of eastern Ohio and West Virginia to markets in Ohio, Michigan, and Canada.

FERC conceded in a statement issued July 8 that construction and operation of the pipeline “would result in some adverse environmental impacts, but impact would be reduced to less-than-significant levels with the implementation of NEXUS’ and Texas Eastern’s proposed mitigation measures and the FERC staff’s recommendations.”

All 450 seats were taken and more than 100 people stood in the back and along the sides of the room during the March 16 meeting in Waterville. Street parking within a half-mile was taken.

Jim Fritz, Anthony Wayne Schools superintendent, told state and local regulators the proposed compressor station is unacceptably close to five of the district’s six buildings, 4,000 students, and 300 staff members.

NEXUS officials have said in past interviews it will consider all objections that are raised before making a final decision.

FERC will take comments on its draft environmental impact statement through Aug. 29.

Contact Tom Henry at: thenry@theblade.com, 419-724-6079, or via Twitter @ecowriterohio.

First Published August 8, 2016, 4:00 a.m.

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