MERCER TWP — A natural gas company known to “mine” for Bitcoin at several of its Pennsylvania locations has proposed connecting two wells near Shields and Harmony roads.

In a meeting earlier this month, Big Dog Energy asked Mercer Township supervisor Richard Stuchal and secretary Lori Giesel for a pipeline that would run south from Shields Road, parallel with Harmony Road.

The pipeline, if approved, would require a right-of-way that runs partly through Mercer Township and likely near a strip mine on the southeast of the intersection of Shields and Harmony roads.

Big Dog Energy owns both well pads. One is near Shields Road, and the other is about 1.3 miles to south of the other site, near Harmony Road and Route 108, Stuchal said.