Shell spokesman Joe Minnitte said Monday that a 4.5-mile pipeline will soon be constructed that will feed natural gas to the Shell Chemicals ethane cracker plant in Potter Township where it will be used to fuel gas turbines to generate power from a cogeneration power plant on the Shell site.

National Fuel Gas Supply Corp. is going to be building that pipeline.

The project is expected to break ground later this month or in early February, and the new pipeline should be in service by July.

In the permit approval, DEP said the pipeline project will include 80.5 acres of earth disturbance as well as impacts to 770 linear feet of streams.