The Kidder Township supervisors accepted the recommendation of the township’s planning commission and conditionally approved the preliminary plan for the PennEast pipeline compressor station that is to be built on Route 940 in the township.

“This is just one of many plans and approval hurdles that this project will need to go through,” said Chairman Thomas Bradley.“There are a page and a half of conditions and waivers that need to be met.”The Kidder Township Zoning Hearing Board in December granted a conditional approval to the special exception application of PennEast for a compressor station in the township.The compressor station will be on a tract of land that runs between routes 940 and 80 and will be accessed from Route 940 at Industrial Way.The land that the proposed compressor station will be situated on was purchased from Blue Ridge Real Estate Company and will serve the approximately 120-mile PennEast natural gas pipeline proposed to travel from Luzerne County through a portion of Carbon and to New Jersey.The pipeline is projected to run through Lower Towamensing, Towamensing, Kidder and Penn Forest townships in Carbon County.The PennEast pipeline project has yet to receive final approval from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, but the company is proceeding with the necessary preliminary preparations in the meantime.