Hunters Sharing the Harvest Receives Grant from PennEast Pipeline Co.

New equipment and training for first responders, as well as agricultural education and food assistance, represent a few of the efforts PennEast Pipeline Company LLC (PennEast) is proud to support through its most recent Community Connector Grant awards.

Announced today, PennEast has awarded 17 Community Connector Grants totaling $85,000. Since its 2014 inception, the PennEast Community Connector Grant Program has invested $325,000 in Pennsylvania and New Jersey communities.

“PennEast is proud to help support community organizations where we live and work – across the Garden and Keystone states,” said Peter Terranova, chair of the PennEast board of managers. “Whether donating time or funds, PennEast is committed to being a good neighbor. Supporting our first responders, as well as community and environmental organizations, is a priority.”

“On behalf of the board and volunteers, we are grateful to be selected as a PennEast Pipeline Community Connector Grant recipient,” said John Plowman, executive director of Hunters Sharing the Harvest. “PennEast’s $5,000 grant will provide approximately 20,000 meals and helps us continue our 25-year commitment to assisting people throughout Pennsylvania.”

The PennEast Community Connector Grants are awarded to not-for-profit organizations on the basis of need, fulfillment of program guidelines and proximity to the proposed PennEast Pipeline in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

PennEast’s Community Connector Grant Program provides grants of up to $5,000 to:

• Support first responders and emergency management;
• Improve community safety;
• Conserve important local habitat;
• Enhance open space, recreational areas and wildlife habitat;
• Preserve community culture and heritage; and
• Support environmental and/or energy education programs.

Representing a nearly $1 billion investment, this 118-mile, primarily 36-inch, underground pipeline will reduce energy costs and support thousands of jobs with clean-burning, American energy.  The PennEast Pipeline will originate in Dallas, Luzerne County, in northeastern Pennsylvania, and terminate at Transco’s pipeline interconnection near Pennington, Mercer County, New Jersey.