Connecticut grants contested hearing on Brookfield gas compressor expansion before air permits issue, groups report
State environmental regulators have granted a trial-type hearing on air permits for two new gas turbines at the Iroquois pipeline's Brookfield station, according to Save the Sound; no date is set.
Pipeline and power developers seeking Connecticut air permits near homes face a longer path to a decision when opponents plead specific legal violations. On October 1, 2026, Save the Sound announced that the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (“DEEP”) had granted a public adjudicatory hearing on New Source Review permits, the state preconstruction air permits under Conn. Gen. Stat. § 22a-174, for two new and two modified compressor turbines at the Iroquois Gas Transmission System, L.P. station at 78 High Meadow Road, Brookfield (In re Iroquois Gas Transmission System LP, Brookfield, DEEP Office of Adjudications Case No. 2026-00020).
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 22a-174; Conn. Gen. Stat. § 22a-5e; In re Iroquois Gas Transmission System LP, Brookfield, Case No. 2026-00020 (Conn. DEEP Off. of Adjudications) (hearing reported granted Oct. 1, 2026)