Fracked gas pipelines and compressor stations can introduce significant risks in communities, including the potential for explosions, fires, toxic leaks, greenhouse gas emissions, localized acid rain and long-term health hazards like respiratory illnesses. Pipelines also provide corridors of power for AI data centers – along with fracked gas power plants, deafening compressor stations and acid rains that will destroy our way of life and the health of our ecosystems.

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The Constitution Pipeline, is a proposed fracked gas pipeline proposed by the Oklahoma-based Williams Companies. The project would involve the construction of approximately 125 miles of new 30-inch diameter interstate fracked gas pipeline originating in northeastern Pennsylvania which would extend through Broome, Chenango, Delaware, and Schoharie Counties in New York and terminate at the Wright Compressor Station in the Town of Wright, Schoharie County.

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In Schohaire the pipeline is proposed to run through the following municipalities: Jefferson, Summit, Richmondville, Cobleskill, Middleburgh, Schoharie and Wright​.​

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The Constitution Pipeline would:

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• require the clearing of 1,872 acres of land,

• the destruction of approximately 700,000 trees on 1,034 acres of forest,

• cross 289 bodies of water, most of them cold-water trout streams,

• impact over 95 acres of wetlands, of which 34 acres are irreplaceable forested wetlands,

• climb or descend over 35 miles of steep slopes,

• have to blast through 45.5 miles of shallow bedrock, and

• provide gas for factories, power plants, and AI data centers all along the I-88 corridor.

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