The Pilgrim Pipeline is a proposed 178-mile double pipeline from Albany, New York to Linden, New Jersey. It will carry Bakken crude oil southward and refined petroleum products northward. The pipeline will carry 200,000 barrels per day in both directions – a total of 73 million barrels annually – through six counties in New York and five in New Jersey. The total cost of the pipeline construction will likely range between $900 million and $1 billion dollars.
But the Pilgrim Pipeline has raised intense opposition from environmentalists, elected representatives, residents of the communities through which it will run, and the Ramapough Lunaape in New Jersey. Among other things, many are worried about the potentially devastating effects the pipeline could have on environmentally sensitive land and drinking water that millions of people depend on.