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Bristol delays natural gas pact

Posted on April 19, 2018 |
By Christopher Ross



BRISTOL — Opponents of the natural gas pipeline proposed for Bristol won a partial — albeit temporary — victory at Monday night’s selectboard meeting.

After roughly 90 minutes of intense discussion, during which the selectboard was often put on the defensive, the four members present voted unanimously to table a motion pledging their signatures on a license agreement with Vermont Gas Systems (VGS).

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Vermont Gas says Vergennes lines will be in place in 2017

Posted on September 4, 2016 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



VERGENNES — Vermont Gas Systems now plans to complete installing gas lines throughout the city of Vergennes by the end of 2017,  a company official told the Vergennes City Council at its Aug. 30 meeting.

Vermont Gas Director of Sales and Marketing Thomas Murray told the council that the company expects to begin work in earnest in Vergennes next spring.

“Our goal is to hit the ground running next year,” Murray said.

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Middlebury town energy chair to protest gas pipeline

Posted on June 17, 2016 |
By John Flowers



MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury Energy Committee Chairman Jason Kaye last week served notice to the Middlebury selectboard that he will participate in peaceful efforts to disrupt construction of the Addison Natural Gas Project pipeline into town, and asked board members if such activity might preclude him from serving on the panel.

At their June 14 meeting, selectboard members replied they will continue to endorse Kaye’s stewardship of the committee, provided his pipeline protests stay nonviolent and within the spirit of civil disobedience.

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Pipeline activists plan a demonstration in Addison County

Posted on June 2, 2016 |
By Gaen Murphree



ADDISON COUNTY — The activist group Rising Tide Vermont will hold direct action trainings in Starksboro this coming weekend and is planning a mass action in Addison County on Monday, June 6, to stop construction of Vermont Gas Systems’ natural gas pipeline.

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Weybridge eyed for natural gas service; meeting Tuesday

Posted on May 18, 2016 |
By John Flowers



WEYBRIDGE — The Weybridge selectboard this Tuesday, May 17, will hold a public meeting to seek residents’ feedback on a Vermont Gas plan to provide natural gas to residents living on portions of a half-dozen roads in town.

Vermont Gas is in the process of planning — and in some areas, already installing — gas service lines to customers in the Middlebury area as part of its Addison Natural Gas Project. That project features an extension of the natural gas pipeline from Colchester to Middlebury and Vergennes.

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Pipeline protesters halt eminent domain appraisal in Monkton

Posted on January 29, 2016 |
By Mike Polahamus of VTDigger.org



MONKTON — Bearing banners and singing songs, several dozen protesters blocked an expected appraisal Thursday at Monkton resident Claire Broughton’s property, where Vermont Gas Systems is seeking to lay a natural gas pipeline over her objections.

The protesters waited in a cold wind for about an hour before hearing via Broughton’s lawyer that state officials had called off the visit. He said officials deemed the situation too “menacing.”

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State eminent domain laws tip balance toward Vt. Gas

Posted on February 24, 2014 |
By Zach Despart



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ADDISON COUNTY — If Vermont Gas Systems does move forward with eminent domain proceedings against Addison County landowners to secure necessary easements to build its proposed natural gas pipeline, it will have both state statute and recent precedents on its side.

The Canadian-owned utility sent letters to nine Monkton homes last month stating that if an agreement on a right-of-way easement could not be reached, the utility would have no choice but to begin the process of eminent domain.

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Regional planners question Vt. Gas vice president

Posted on January 16, 2014 |
By Zach Despart



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MIDDLEBURY — The Addison County Regional Planning Commission on Jan. 9 peppered a Vermont Gas Systems executive with questions about the “Phase II” pipeline project.

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Vermont eyes tax on gas pipelines to fund renewable alternatives

Posted on January 16, 2014 |
By John Herrick VTDigger.org



MONTPELIER — Lawmakers are considering a plan to tax the state’s natural gas pipelines to fund renewable energy projects.

The new taxing scheme could raise millions for renewables as Vermont Gas Systems charts a southern pipeline expansion through Addison County on the western side of the state.

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Vermont Gas pitches Rutland pipeline through Pittsford

Posted on December 16, 2013 |
By Lee J. Kahrs



PITTSFORD — The words “natural gas pipeline” make people around here take notice, as was evident from the full house at a recent Pittsford selectboard meeting.

Vermont Gas Systems Inc. was on the agenda, outlining a very preliminary plan to run a natural gas pipeline down through Rutland County. The pipeline would follow completion of a pipeline from Colchester through Addison County, which is still in the permitting stages.

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