Leatherstocking Gas LLC pipeline
CORNING – Piping natural gas is all about cutting back the cost of fuel. With today’s low price for gas, why wouldn’t businesses and school districts want to pay approximately 75 percent less to heat and cool their buildings and to power up machinery?
That’s the question posed by Corning Natural Gas President and Chief Executive Office Mike German. Corning, in conjunction with Mirabito Holding Inc., proposes to build a pipeline from the pending well site in Guilford – and others if they are drilled – to the Sidney and Bainbridge communities.
But instead of progress, German said he finds himself drowning in the quagmire of a drilling war. When the pipeline proposal came through the town of Coventry last year, droves of hydraulic fracturing opponents came out in opposition.
“We think we are stumbling somewhere back to the middle now, and think we have made progress. We just want to legally build a utility and offer lower priced energy,” he said.
The venture, a natural gas public utility called Leatherstocking Gas LLC, has acquired franchises to service at least two businesses in neighboring Otsego County, has municipal agreements in the town and village of Sidney and the Town of Bainbridge and awaits future municipal and corporate agreements in the village of Bainbridge, and - perhaps - Coventry.
The pipeline would be the first in over 50 years to deliver natural gas to the region. It would span about 15 miles and connect with both existing and planned natural gas wells.
“There’s a large interest for gas. It’s far more economical than oil and would mean a lot to the school systems. We determined, at one point last year, that the savings would equal the cost of paying for 8 teachers,” German said.
What stands between Leatherstocking and putting pipe in the ground is gas supply.
“If the well in Guilford is successful, we would hope to hook up to that. Our goal would be to hook up to conventional wells in sandstone formation, and remain hopeful that there will be adequate gas avail from conventional wells to pipe Sidney and Bainbridge.”
That’s the question posed by Corning Natural Gas President and Chief Executive Office Mike German. Corning, in conjunction with Mirabito Holding Inc., proposes to build a pipeline from the pending well site in Guilford – and others if they are drilled – to the Sidney and Bainbridge communities.
But instead of progress, German said he finds himself drowning in the quagmire of a drilling war. When the pipeline proposal came through the town of Coventry last year, droves of hydraulic fracturing opponents came out in opposition.
“We think we are stumbling somewhere back to the middle now, and think we have made progress. We just want to legally build a utility and offer lower priced energy,” he said.
The venture, a natural gas public utility called Leatherstocking Gas LLC, has acquired franchises to service at least two businesses in neighboring Otsego County, has municipal agreements in the town and village of Sidney and the Town of Bainbridge and awaits future municipal and corporate agreements in the village of Bainbridge, and - perhaps - Coventry.
The pipeline would be the first in over 50 years to deliver natural gas to the region. It would span about 15 miles and connect with both existing and planned natural gas wells.
“There’s a large interest for gas. It’s far more economical than oil and would mean a lot to the school systems. We determined, at one point last year, that the savings would equal the cost of paying for 8 teachers,” German said.
What stands between Leatherstocking and putting pipe in the ground is gas supply.
“If the well in Guilford is successful, we would hope to hook up to that. Our goal would be to hook up to conventional wells in sandstone formation, and remain hopeful that there will be adequate gas avail from conventional wells to pipe Sidney and Bainbridge.”
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