Two residents told the Somerset County Board of Commissioners on July 22 that the board should formally oppose the Northeast Supply Enhancement project (NSE) and the proposed Compressor Station CS206, which they said would be sited in Franklin Township.

Linda Powell of Franklin Township told the board the county should support the New Jersey Climate Superfund Act and consider the NSE project a public-risk priority. Powell said the project would bring a compressor station and undersea and onshore pipeline segments and raised concerns about public-health impacts from emissions and about the project operator's safety record. She told commissioners the permit for air emissions was originally issued in 2017 and said new emissions standards published in 2018 may require updated permit review.

Carol Keane, a nearby property owner who said her land borders the proposed CS206 site, asked commissioners to resume the county's prior opposition. Keane described the site context, including its proximity to an active Trap Rock quarry, two farms, an active Superfund site and neighborhoods within roughly a mile of the proposed compressor station. "I'm asking the board to please once again pass a resolution in opposition to it," Keane said, citing concerns about air, noise and water pollution and the potential for methane emissions from the station and pipelines.

Both speakers asked the board to act on their concerns. Commissioners did not vote or introduce a resolution during the July 22 work session; the public comment period ended with the board closing the public portion. Earlier in the meeting, the director noted outreach and meetings with federal and state legislators on other topics, and residents referenced existing state permitting pathways at the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.

The speakers supplied written materials to the board and requested the county help coordinate municipal-level opposition and to communicate health and safety concerns to state and federal regulators.