Kinder Morgan announced on Wednesday that it indefinitely suspended its proposed Northeast Energy Direct pipeline, a project that was inspiring resistance in Albany County as well as elsewhere in the seven states it would have crossed to deliver fracked gas from Pennsylvania to New England. The company said current market forces weighed on the decision.

Local governments are taking stands against the Tennessee Gas Pipeline expansion and studying ways that land adjacent to the pipeline may be adversely affected.

_{John F. Dearstyne Jr., New Scotland}

_{Travis Stevens, 31st District, Albany County Legislator}

_{Edie Abrams, New Scotland}

County legislator L. Michael Mackey said this week that Kinder Morgan attorneys he spoke with “agreed with me this may well result in less blasting, and the use of other technology when the pipeline comes through."

After the county and town made resolutions, the company proposing a gas pipeline has agreed to hold a public meeting to answer residents' questions.