Brian Nearing in the Albany Times-Union reported that Nassau town officials aren't happy with Kinder Morgan, the company trying to put a natural gas pipeline through southern Rensselaer County. Town officials are asking the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to keep open a public comment period set to expire Aug. 31 so they can review a slew of new company documents filed last month. Also, on Aug. 14 town Supervisor David Fleming wrote to District Attorney Joel Abelove about a possible trespassing claim against Kinder Morgan. Fleming said survey workers from Kinder Morgan, reportedly, were on private property last week off Reno Road and had told the owner that the town had authorized their visit. Kinder Morgan wants to build a portion of the 30-inch natural gas Northeast Energy Direct pipeline through southern Rensselaer County. The newly released documents include the site plan for a natural gas compressor station on Clarks Chapel Road, a facilities arrangement plan for the station, and "non-jurisdictional facilities" planned around the state, Fleming reported. Kinder Morgan spokesman Richard Wheatley said the company will, "make sure our land representatives know at all times where they are supposed to be working and where they are not allowed to be." The pipeline is proposed to go through parts of Schodack, Nassau, and Stephentown. The original proposal ran farther south through Columbia County and into the Berkshires of Massachusetts, but moved more than 50 miles of the proposed route farther north after increasing protests there. The pipeline comes from Wright, in Schoharie County, through an existing Kinder Morgan right of way through Knox, Berne, New Scotland, and Bethlehem, then crosses the Hudson River at Schodack, then follows a National Grid power line right-of-way northeast, south of Burden Lake and to near the intersection of routes 43 and 66 at the hamlet of Alps. Then it continues north of Route 43 in Nassau and Stephentown for 14 miles before crossing into Massachusetts at Hancock. Read the full story in the Albany Times-Union.