Pilgrim Pipeline

[2] Pilgrim Pipelines Holdings, LLC, a company founded in 2014 by Koch Industries alumni,[3] planned to run two side-by-side pipelines[4] which would carry products like gasoline, kerosene, aviation fuel and home heating oil northbound—and highly flammable Bakken formation crude oil southbound—between Albany, New York and the Bayway Refinery on the Arthur Kill tidal estuary in Linden, New Jersey.

[7] The project was initially supported by lobbyists connected with Republican NJ Governor Chris Christie.

Others fear possible destruction of wetlands, toxic air emissions and soil erosion due to construction.

Local residents have expressed outrage over the expected drop in property values for homes near the pipeline.

[20] The proposed route closely tracked the New York State Thruway, running parallel to, and west of, the Hudson River.

[21] As of 2017, the corporation planned to run the fossil fuel pipeline through 28 New York municipalities in six counties: The company expects its pipeline to cross 29 municipalities throughout five New Jersey counties: In protest of the Pilgrim Pipeline on their lands and in solidarity with Standing Rock and other clean water movements, members of the Ramapough Mountain Indians founded the Split Rock Sweetwater protest encampment[22] on their lands in Mahwah, New Jersey in 2016 near the New York border.