Stop the Pipeline, a citizens' group with members in Otsego, Delaware, and now Schoharie Counties, will meet Thursday at 7pm at the Richmondville Fire House to discuss efforts to halt Constitution Pipeline's plans for a 120-mile natural gas line through the region.
Meanwhile, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has extended the deadline for comments on the proposed project until November 9.
Bob Nied of Richmondville, a member of Stop the Pipreline's Steering Committee, and a director of the Center for Sustainable Rural Communities, said that though Thursday will be the first time Stop the Pipeline has met here, meetings have been going on since last spring in the nearby counties.
Thursday's topics will include an update on where the project and the FERC process stands and what steps Stop the Pipeline needs to take to stop the proposed project, Mr. Nied said.
Though everyone's welcome, Mr. Nied stressed it's not intended as a debate on the pros and cons of the project.
"It's an opportunity to participate in discussion and strategy on the most effective ways to prevent the construction of this unnecessary project, he said.
Stop the Pipeline has a website: StopThePipeline.org.

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FERC's deadline for comments on the proposed project had been last Tuesday, October 9.
Late that day, however, it was extended by another month to Friday, November 9.
In addition, FERC has set an additional scoping session in Otsego County, where Alternate "M" would run near I-88 for Wednesday, October 24, 7-10pm at the Foothills Performing Arts & Civic Center Atrium at 24 Market Street, Oneonta.
Last Wednesday, Delaware County supervisors passed a resolution of support for the "positive economic impacts" of the proposed 120-mile pipeline, 17-3.
The resolution also called for access to the proposed pipeline "to establish distribution lines for the benefit of businesses, residences, and communities."
The pipeline would pass through eight Delaware County towns.
Otsego County has also passed a resolution supporting the project, though the Board of Representatives there favor "M," which would run about 30 miles of the pipeline through that county, should FERC eventually approve it.
The resolution reads, in part, "...the pipeline will produce beneficial short-term and long-term economic benefits resulting from jobs, sales, income and property tax revenue, and from potential future residential, commercial and industrial natural gas service..."
Schoharie County's Board of Supervisors has taken no formal stand on the pipeline.