Officials break ground on CNG station

“It’s cleaner.  It’s more fuel efficient.  It’s cost effective and it’s good for mass transit.  It’s good for our area,” CamTran board chairman, Ed Cernic Jr. says.

Cernic is talking about compressed natural gas. Right now CamTran in Cambria County has one compressed natural gas fueled bus, but within the next 12 months they have plans to buy 15 more.  In the next seven years most the fleet will be CNG fueled.

Wednesday morning officials broke ground on what will be Pennsylvania’s first CNG station out of 29 that will be part of the Public Private Partnership project.  It’s an $86 million initiative across the state.  In Cambria County it’s not only going to be CamTran’s site, but a public site too.

“So anybody who has CNG car, truck, any kind of equipment, they can come right here and fuel up.”

Cernic says it wouldn’t be possible if everyone didn’t help to step up to the pump, creating this new millennium state of fueling, so that Johnstown can be an industrial powerhouse again.

Right now CamTran officials say they pay about $2.30 per gallon for diesel.
 
“With CNG we’ll be able to buy for at least a dollar a gallon less.”

Having to use less money for fuel will allow more money for other operations.  Officials hope to build off of this for the future.

“We’re going to also work to get natural gas on the trains because it’s a cleaner way than diesel,” Rep. Bryan Barbin says.

CamTran officials say they expect the CNG fueling station to be ready for the public to use by the end of this year.

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