The Kidder Township board of supervisors voted 5-0 last evening to approve the land use permit for the sole compressor station along the nearly 120-mile PennEast pipeline which, if approved, will run from Dallas Township to Mercer County, New Jersey.

The pipeline will carry natural gas that results from the fracking operations north of Kidder.The compressor site is an approximately 74-acre, undeveloped site near Interstate 80 and will include three natural gas turbine-driven units.The supervisors unanimously approved the final land development plan with expected conditions, including a final certification from FERC, and is the last approval in the local process."This approval is another step forward for PennEast and part of a thorough, multi-year process involving nearly two dozen regulatory agencies," said Pat Kornick, project spokesperson.Final federal approval from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is expected in the coming weeks.