Comment of Kim Robinson under PF15-1.

June 7, 2015 Re: PennEast Pipeline Co., Docket PF15-1 Dear FERC Commissioners, It is clear to me that with regard to PennEasts planned application for a Certificate of Need and Convenience, you have absolutely no honest option but to return a No Build decision and deny the application. All one has to do is read current regulatory reports and industry articles to see that this new line is absolutely NOT necessary. Admittedly, and as Forbes Magazine states in its June 6, 2015 issue, as our country moves toward renewables, we need to balance the current intermittency of those renewables with our steady need for electricity, and gas-fired plants can fill that current gap.1 What this does NOT mean is that new interstate pipeline infrastructure is necessary. This need for additional natural gas is a temporary one, and one that can be fulfilled with our current infrastructure. In the case of PennEast in particular, a pipeline with the same route already exists, and is having a loop added to it as I write this. To destroy more thousands of acres of environmentally and historically rich lands, to again risk the contamination of a water supply for millions of people, and to again put thousands of school children and families in danger is absolutely unwarranted given the current predictions regarding the future of the industry. Any agency that would give the go-ahead on such a project is neglect in its duties. According to the US Department of Energys February 2015 report, as the natural gas demand from the electric power sector increases, the incremental increase in interstate natural gas pipeline expansion need only be modest. Two primary factors mitigate the need for additional interstate natural gas pipeline infrastructure and related capital expenditures in these scenarios. First, the growth in both natural gas demand from electricity generation and natural gas production is broadly distributed rather than geographically concentrated, reducing potential interstate pipeline capacity constraints as well as the need for new interstate pipelines. Second, increasing utilization of capacity that is not fully utilized in existing interstate natural gas pipelines, re-routing natural gas flows, and expanding existing pipeline capacity are potentially lower-cost alternatives to building new infrastructure and can accommodate a significant increase in natural gas flows.2 Its not new interstate pipelines that are needed; its simply a matter of better utilizing the capacity that already exists. Very much in agreement is Dr. Ernest Moniz, the US Secretary ...