Paul Gierosky is with the Coalition to Reroute Nexus. His group and the City of Green developed an alternative route which is farther south in a less densely populated area. He says the company building the natural gas pipeline, Spectra Energy, reviewed the plan and said it doesn’t fit the project’s purpose and needs because it’s farther from identified customers.  But Gierosky says the company never gave any details on specific customers.

“Our board of directors filed a letter on June 26^th with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission calling out these discrepancies and lack of substantive information, lack of any factual information in their analysis.  And we’ve ask for an independent analysis by FERC or some qualified organization.”

Spectra Energy documents say Nexus customers include Cleveland-based utility Dominion East Ohio, and industrial parks in Erie, Wayne and Medina counties. The pipeline is expected to be operational in November, 2017.