Sierra Club urges Sayreville to oppose NESE pipeline and compressor station; speaker requests council resolution

Taylor McFarland, conservation program manager for the Sierra Club New Jersey chapter, asked the borough to consider passing a resolution opposing the Northeast Supply Enhancement (NESE) pipeline and compressor station project. The project would site a compressor station in Franklin and run a new pipeline under Old Bridge, Sayreville and South Amboy to Long Island, McFarland said, and she said New Jersey would not receive the gas.

McFarland said the pipeline and compressor station would risk reversing decades of water‑quality improvements in Raritan Bay and could harm a regional economy that she said generated more than $50 billion in tourism in 2024. She noted that a number of neighboring municipalities — Old Bridge, Middletown, Rumson, Keyport, and others — had already passed resolutions opposing the project and asked Sayreville to add its voice.

McFarland said she would re‑send model resolutions to the borough clerk and requested that the council place an anti‑NESE resolution on a future agenda for consideration. The council did not take immediate action at the meeting.