User:Djflem/Pilgrim Pipeline

Pilgirm Pipeline is a proposed 178 mi pipeline between Albany, New York and Linden, New Jersey in the United States. The pipeline would carry petroleum from the Port of Albany to the Bayway Refinery in the Port of New York and New Jersey and back to New York State.

Current operations transshipment operations involve shipping by rail along CSX Transportation's CSX Transportation's River Line and marine via oil tanker/ barge traffic along the Hudson River and the Arthur Kill.

A definitive route for the pipeline has not been determined and no permits have been issued. Numerous municipalities long its proposed route have passed resolutions opposing it.

Route
The route of the pipeline would roughly follow the New York State Thruway in the Hudson Valley, Interstate 287 in the New York–New Jersey Highlands, and in North Jersey. http://www.nj.com/morris/index.ssf/2014/12/pseg_no_decision_yet_on_whether_to_allow_pilgrim_pipeline.html http://www.northjersey.com/news/on-this-pipeline-christie-has-no-comment-1.1153420?page=all http://www.nj.com/morris/index.ssf/2014/05/environmentalists_detail_opposition_to_proposed_pipeline_between_albany_and_linden.html

Half the mayors in 30 municipalities and seven counties through which the pipeline would pass have come out against the Pilgrim, including Chatham Borough Mayor Bruce Harris, who was tapped by Christie for a spot on the state Supreme Court but never made it to the bench because his nomination was blocked by Senate Democrats.

The pipeline would cross 63 miles of environmentally sensitive terrain protected under the 2004 Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act which supplies drinking water to most of the state, and the Buried Valley Aquifer System.

It would also cross over freshwater wetlands and a Natural Heritage Priority Site supporting two plant species designated as 'endangered' by the state, according to Pilgrim’s permit filings with the state Department of Environmental Protection. Pilgrim would run through parts of Bergen, Passaic, Morris, Somerset, Essex, Middlesex, and Union counties in New Jersey.

Bakken crude
Hydraulic fracturing from the Bakken formation has led to the North Dakota oil boom.

Bakken oil transport
The one is used for the transport of Bakken oil. http://www.riverkeeper.org/blog/patrol/barge-spills-31500-gallons-of-bakken-crude-oil-on-mississippi/

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/08/13/upshot/where-people-in-each-state-were-born.html?smid=fb-nytimes&WT.z_sma=UP_WPI_20140814&bicmp=AD&bicmlukp=WT.mc_id&bicmst=1388552400000&bicmet=1420088400000&_r=2&abt=0002&abg=0 http://www.northjersey.com/news/town-presses-for-new-tankers-on-oil-trains-1.1085817

train safety http://www.nj.com/traffic/index.ssf/2015/04/oil_tanks_cars_would_be_retrofitted_to_retired_und.html#incart_river

Port of Albany
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/28/business/energy-environment/bakkan-crude-rolling-through-albany.html?_r=0

CSX has proposed a new rail yard with marine transfer operations at Port Windsor, http://www.timesunion.com/business/article/Rail-yard-plan-for-crude-bypasses-Albany-port-5076524.php

Tanker and barge transport
Marine transfer operations at the Port of Albany and at Bayway in volve the use of [[oil tanker http://www.northjersey.com/news/oil-boom-boosts-flow-along-the-hudson-and-fears-of-spill-risk-1.837896?page=1

http://www.northjersey.com/news/federal-security-rules-block-information-on-oil-trains-crossing-n-j-1.1336221 fed regulations

CSX River Line and Conrail Shared Assets
The amount of oil hauled on the rails has increased more than 4,000 percent in the six years since a large underground reserve was found in North Dakota's Bakken region, where there are few pipelines. Much of the oil bound for the Northeast market is shipped to Albany, N.Y., where it heads south on the CSX River Line into New Jersey through Northvale, Norwood, Harrington Park, Closter, Haworth, Dumont, Bergenfield, Teaneck, Bogota, Ridgefield Park and Ridgefield, North Bergen. At North bergen Yard it enters through the North Jersey Shared Assests Area on Conrail. (CRCX) Northern Line, Passaic and Harsimus LIne, and Chemical Coast.

Oradell Reservoir

Jersey City, Kearny, Newark. Most of the trains then pass through the central part of the state on their way to a Philadelphia refinery.

CSX Transportation (CSX) River Line is used for the transport of Bakken oil from the yard at Albany to the refinery. The line uses rail cars that are unconsidered inadequate and a safety hazard calling for more regulations and oversight by the towns which The River Line passes through.

http://www.northjersey.com/news/feds-issue-emergency-oil-train-safety-measures-regs-cover-bergen-county-line-1.1312038

Bayway Refinery
The Bayway Refinery is owned by Phillips 66, is the northernmost refinery on the East Coast of the United States. It straddles the borders of the New Jersey municipalities of Linden and Elizabeth on the Arthur Kill, one of the most heavily used waterways in the Port of New York and New Jersey.

http://www.nj.com/union/index.ssf/2015/05/pipeline_opponents_rally_in_linden_photos.html#incart_river

Opposition
http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/12/senators_launch_effort_to_block_oil_pipeline_through_seven_nj_counties.html