SCHOHARIE, N.Y. (AP) — Upstate New York officials who found out a planned natural gas pipeline could go through sites containing prehistoric artifacts have been barred from getting more details because of a federal law aimed at preventing looting.
Constitution Pipeline LLC plans to build a 124-mile pipeline from Pennsylvania’s shale fields to northeastern markets. As part of the permitting process, it has filed documents with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission describing three sites with archaeological value on its route. The sites could contain artifacts such as arrowheads and stone tools.
Schoharie County officials want to know where the sites are so they can weigh in on protective measures. But their information requests have been denied due to federal regulations intended to protect such sites.
An archaeologist working on a dig in the area says state officials will ensure any artifacts are preserved.
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Feds putting CORPORATION needs ahead of everything…
After the residents suffer the risks that fracking will destroy the groundwater and poison their wells, the payoff was to be energy independence for the country. But these pipelines are to take America’s natural resources and export them. There goes big business again, pretending to be on our side until they get what they want, then selling out. We want to build the country, they demand maximum profits. Heat homes in Winter? Nah, load it on a barge and sell it to China. This is a third world economy, where resources are exploited and the raw material is sold to benefit the rich. The rest get the pollution, they don’t get cheaper heating bills and good jobs.
I’ve read they are also trying to run these pipelines thru heritage farms in Pennsylvania.