National Fuel's Natural Gas Problem

National Fuel's Northern Pipeline is facing a Pennsylvania Problem. It has too many wells that produce too much gas in an unusually warm winter.

That spells a profit problem. To the tune of $189 million dollars.

That doesn't mean that the Northern Access pipeline is going to be stopped. It is just going to be slowed down.

To address the glut, National Fuel shut down two of its drilling rigs and is operating only one. The wells will still be drilled and linked. Just at a slower pace.

The pipeline's opening date has been pushed back to late 2017.

This is not a victory for pipeline opponents. This is merely a delay in National Fuel's victory.

We need to continue the fight against the pipeline.

Environmentalists need to:

1. Oppose any more drilling for fracking wells in Pennsylvania.

2. Oppose the upgrades to the pipeline in Western New York.

3. Oppose the compressor station and evaporator in Pendleton.

4. Fight for wetlands protection in Pendleton and Wheatfield.

This pipeline project needs to be shut down.

Right now it is just being delayed.

We need to stand up and fight harder now to end what National Fuel wants to put through our back yards.

This is our best opportunity.

To borrow a line from Flight 93 – Let's go.