The agency approved a compressor station for Dominion Resources in Myersville, Md.

WSJ: NY town of 9/11 workers wages gas pipeline fight

"Of course, nobody wants a compressor station next door, " said Deborah Lain, who raises grass-fed cattle on a hilltop farm built by her forebears in 1785.

WSJ: NY town of 9/11 workers wages gas pipeline fight

That alternate site is in neighboring Deerpark, which passed a resolution opposing the compressor station last year and told the commission the Minisink site would cause less environmental impact.

WSJ: NY town of 9/11 workers wages gas pipeline fight

"It's a disgrace that the government allows this to happen in all these little communities, " said the now-retired Russo, who plans to move if the compressor station goes online.

WSJ: NY town of 9/11 workers wages gas pipeline fight

Company officials believe a tornado hit a compressor station for the Columbia Gulf Transmission company in Hartsville, Tennessee, about 40 miles northeast of Nashville, setting off a spectacular natural gas fire.

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Compressor station opponents in the town of about 4, 400 residents wants the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to reconsider a proposal by the residents to put the industrial facility on a more remote company-owned site that's farther from homes and farms.

WSJ: NY town of 9/11 workers wages gas pipeline fight