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The battle to stop gas pipeline in N.J. Highlands is over

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The entrance to the compressor station in West Milford built as part of a $246 million expansion of the Tennessee Gas Company pipeline through New Jersey. The pipeline delivers natural gas to Con Edison customers in New York.

A four-year legal battle fought by environmentalists to stop the Tennessee Gas Company pipeline expansion through New Jersey appears to have ended in defeat.

The massive compressor station that Tennessee Gas built in West Milford to deliver natural gas to New York does not violate environmental restrictions contained in New Jersey’s Highlands Act, a state appellate court has ruled.

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