HUDSON COUNTY -- Residents came out Tuesday to learn about a natural gas pipeline a Texas company wants to run through the city – as well as through Bayonne and near southern Hoboken.

Spectra Energy Corp., based in Houston, Tex., held an “informational meeting” at Public School 9 on Mercer Street.

The meeting was to inform people about a 16-mile pipeline that would allow natural gas to flow from its existing metering and regulating station in Staten Island, N.Y. through Hudson County and into Manhattan.

Several local officials and residents are opposed to the project.

Two upcoming informational meetings on the pipeline are scheduled in Bayonne: Monday, March 15, from 6 - 8 p.m., at CWV Post 1612, 18 West 23rd St., Bayonne; and Wednesday, March 17, 6 - 8 p.m., at Trinity Church (Trinity Parish in Bergen Point), 141 Broadway, Bayonne.

To find out what happened at Tuesday's meeting and what local activists and officials plan to do, read this weekend's Jersey City Reporter or Hoboken Reporter.