In 2014 PennEast quietly moved around northeast Pennsylvania and parts of New Jersey looking for a route for a new 118-mile natural gas pipeline to serve mostly New Jersey. The company eventually settled on a route that originates in Dallas, Pennsylvania, and terminates at the Transco pipeline interconnection outside of Pennington, New Jersey.

All in all, the pipeline will be 118 miles of 36-inch diameter pipe carrying an estimated 1 billion cubic feet of natural gas to the interconnection daily. The pipeline is estimated to cost $1 billion to construct.The pipeline is slated to cut through Carbon County on its path to New Jersey. The route enters the county above Jack Frost Mountain, proceeds across Kidder Township, where it will cross Interstate 80. The pipeline enters Penn Forest Township in the area of Hickory Run State Park and continues south from there down into Northampton County.The project has continued to move forward despite considerable opposition from property owners in the affected counties. On Sept. 24 PennEast filed its formal application before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.According to its website, PennEast hopes to receive approval from FERC in 2016 and begin construction in 2017.