NJ, NY reject Williams Northeast Supply Enhancement project

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) have rejected Williams’ 400-MMcfd Transco Northeast Supply Enhancement (NESE) project. The project would have supplied natural gas to Queens, Brooklyn, and parts of Long Island, NY, and included a 23-mile subsea stretch across Raritan Bay.

NJDEP had denied the same wetland and water quality permits in 2019 (OGJ Online, Nov. 4, 2019), but Williams resubmitted. 

NESE was a 26-in. OD, 37-mile pipeline project that would transport gas from Pennsylvania through New Jersey, traveling underwater in the Raritan Bay and Lower New York Bay to about 3 miles offshore the Rockaway Peninsula where it would have connected to the existing Rockaway Delivery Lateral.