Application filed for $2B gas pipeline in northern Ohio

Associated Press

CLEVELAND

The company planning to build a $2 billion gas pipeline across northern Ohio has filed its formal application for federal approval, citing a projected surge in production in eastern Ohio and surrounding states and an expected demand for gas from electric utility companies for why the pipeline is needed.

NEXUS Gas Transmission hopes to have the pipeline built and ready to transport gas from the Marcellus and Utica shale fields by November 2017. Opponents, meanwhile, say they will continue their fight to have the pipeline rerouted from populated areas to farmland farther south.

NEXUS wants to build 255 miles of 36-inch pipeline – 208 miles in Ohio and 47 in Michigan – between eastern Ohio and a large gas facility in Ontario, Canada. The pipeline would have the capacity to move 1.5 billion cubic feet of gas per day, which would meet the needs of 15,000 homes for a year.