Iroquios Gas Transmission System
(Tied to the Constitution Pipeline project.)
FERC Docket CP13-502-003
Filed for “expedited reissuance” of the permit granted by FERC over a decade ago. FERC posted a Notice, establishing March 17, 2026 Deadline for all filing of Motions to Intervene, Comments and Protests.
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• KEY COMMENT POINTS
– This project affects the entire region by allowing 650,000 Dekatherms a day of additional gas into the northeast from Constitution Pipeline. By connecting this new source from the fracking fields of Pennsylvania to both the Tennessee Gas and Iroquois pipeline systems, and indirectly from Iroquois to the Algonquin system, they are allowing a flood of additional gas into New England and New York.
– All of these states have climate laws on the books requiring energy sector decarbonization by 2050. Raising capacity in the northeast is creating infrastructure that is destined to become stranded assets in the coming years.
– There is no accounting for downstream and upstream emissions in the project filing.
– It will increase CO2 and particulate emissions directly at the site by increasing fuel consumed for
INFO FROM ORIGINAL 2013 APPLICATION
– Original application documents filed in 2013, compiled into single PDF
Project description starts on p. 181.
Project would be new compression facilities and modification to existing facilities in Wright, NY, interconnecting to Constitution pipeline with the Tennessee Gas Pipeline (TGP) and Iroquois Pipeline.
DESCRIPTIONS IN ORIGINAL APPLICATION:
The application asked for approval to “construct, install, own, operate, and maintain certain new compression facilities to be located in Wright, New York, and to modify certain existing facilities at that same location, and (2) lease the incremental capacity associated with these new and modified facilities to Constitution Pipeline Company, LLC” and receive “650,000 dekatherms per day (Dth/d) of primary firm transmission capacity from that new point of interconnection with Constitution to interconnections with Iroquois’ mainline system as well as Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company, LLC (“Tennessee” or “TGP”).”
“The 650,000 Dth/d of leased capacity would extend from the
Wright CPL receipt point to any of the following three delivery points:
(a) Iroquois Zone 1 at Wright, New York (Wright IZl);
(b) Iroquois Zone 2 at Wright, New York (Wright IZ2); and
(c) Iroquois’ existing interconnection with Tennessee at Wright, New York (Wright TGP).”
A. FACILITIES AND OPERATION
Currently, Iroquois owns and operates two mainline compressor units of approximately 7,200 HP each, along with associated natural gas cooling at the Wright Compressor Station. The compressors at the Wright Compressor Station allow Iroquois to transport natural gas on behalf of its firm customers from Iroquois’ interconnect with TransCanada at Waddington, New York to points in Iroquois Zone 2 downstream of this facility. The present maximum allowable operating pressure (“MAOP”) of Iroquois’ system near the Wright Compressor Station is 1,440 pounds per square inch gauge (“psig”).
Additionally, at the proposed Project location in Wright, New York, Iroquois owns and operates the Wright Meter Station, which currently delivers gas from the suction side of the Wright Compressor Station to the Tennessee 200 Line.”
Description of Proposed Infrastructure, Section 1.1, p. 181-186
“Iroquois will be installing minor facilities to interconnect its system to Constitution.
Constitution will be installing a meter station and associated metering facilities on Iroquois’ Wright, NY property adjacent to the Wright Compressor Station, which facilities are included in
Constitution’s FERC 7(c) filing, and TGP will be installing two new taps onto its existing pipeline facilities which are located on Iroquois’ Wright NY property, along with overpressure protection facilities, pursuant to TGP’s blanket construction certificate.
Iroquois proposes to construct the transfer compressor station adjacent to its existing Wright Compressor Station in the Town of Wright, Schoharie County, New York. The proposed transfer compressor station would be located within the property line of Iroquois’ existing 53.22 acre Wright, NY site which currently hosts the Wright Compressor Station (which compresses gas for transportation from Iroquois Zone 1 into Iroquois Zone 2) and the Wright/TGP Meter Station (which delivers gas from Iroquois to TGP). Figures 1.1-2 and 1.1-3 of this resource report and an aerial photograph (Volume IV – Appendix I) show the location of the existing and proposed compressor stations.
The transfer compressor station will include two turbo-compressors of approximately 10,900 HP each housed in a common building; an auxiliary building, natural gas coolers, gas filters, an emergency generator, and a domestic gas building, in addition to associated parking and access areas. This project will allow Iroquois to receive lower pressure gas from Constitution and, by raising its pressure via transfer compression, deliver it into Iroquois’ pipeline.”