Milford, PA, February 25 2013 – This past Saturday, February 23, 2013, 100 residents and friends marched against the Tennessee Pipeline across the Milford Bridge, from Milford, PA to Montague, NJ over the Delaware River.

The march, Milford’s first, was organized by the Stop the Tennessee Pipeline! campaign to show opposition to the Tennessee Gas Pipeline that will transport shale gas for export and proposed natural gas power plants along the coast. Completion of the pipeline upgrade will almost ensure a full Marcellus Shale development scenario using the controversial method of hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking”. Currently, tree clearing is rapidly underway after permission was given by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on February 14. The march started at the former Yale Forestry School in Milford where residents boast it is the “Home of the American Conservation Movement”.  Marchers then walked across the Milford Bridge to Montague, NJ, near 86 year old George Feighner’s home. The right of way adjacent to Feighner’s home on his 60-acre property was recently cleared of trees using FERC-granted eminent domain for placement of the Tennessee Gas Pipeline.  Feigner has been quoted as saying he “cries for his trees.” More…