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Susquehanna Borough Council was called to order at 7:09 p.m. on Tuesday, November 15. Present were council members Sue Crawford, John Hendrickson, Bill Perry, Joe Varsik, Allen Wolf and Deborah Zayas, as well as Mayor Mike Matis; absent, Dave Scales. Following the pledge of allegiance council members approved the meeting’s agenda, as well as the minutes for the borough council meeting of October 18 and committee meeting of November 1.

Mayor Matis read correspondence from the Hometown Days Committee of Susquehanna Community Development Association (SCDA) announcing it had set the date for the Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony for Friday, December 9 at 7 p.m., at the tree in Shop’s Plaza, refreshments to follow at the Fire Department. SCDA requested council’s approval for their plans to decorate the light poles on Main Street with wreaths and lights on November 30 or December 1, weather permitting. Council unanimously approved the request.

With a series of meetings around the county sponsored by Peoples Neighborhood Bank and Powell Law of Scranton, a group called the Susquehanna Pipeland Coalition is organizing landowners in advance of the construction of a new natural gas pipeline by Bluestone Gathering.

Bluestone, created in the summer of 2010, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of DTE Energy of Detroit, Michigan and its affiliate, DTE Pipeline. DTE has over 500 miles of pipelines in Michigan; Bluestone is its first venture outside of that state. Bluestone has offices in Deposit, NY, and in Great Bend, PA, where the local contact is Mike Armiak. Bluestone will be competing with Laser Northeast Gathering, which is already laying pipe to connect to the Millenium Pipeline in New York State. (Laser Northeast was created in 2005 and was acquired in 2010 by Delphi Midstream Partners headquartered in New York City.) Bluestone’s parent, DTE Energy, owns about 26% of the Millenium Pipeline company. Bluestone has contracts with Southwestern Energy to carry natural gas to both the Millenium and Tennessee pipelines and expects to deal with all gas producers in its service area.

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