ALBANY, N.Y. -- A large group in Albany gathered Tuesday to voice their opposition to a controversial oil pipeline project.

"It's a nightmare that gets deeper and darker," said Anne Stack.

Eleven years ago, Stack and her husband bought land in Delaware County with plans to build a home.

"We lived in Reno, Nevada at the time and we shipped our belongings east and that very same week we got a letter from the pipeline company," she explained.

For the last three years, they've had to postpone building as they fight furiously to keep the proposed Constitution Pipeline from running directly through their yard. The pipeline would go through Schoharie County and end in Albany County.

"It will destroy the value of our land, we can never build there with that, but it also impacts nature, the animals, the birds, and the fish," said Stack.

"About 700,000 trees will be cut down, 277 streams will be crossed, and the water quality will be destroyed," added Roger Downs, the Sierra Club Atlantic Chapter Conservation Director.

The 124-mile pipeline would be used to ship fracked gas from Pennsylvania to other markets. Those in favor of the pipeline say it would be a safe way to transfer natural gas and would provide cheaper energy bills.

"It's absolutely about money and greed. New Yorkers don't need it, this is to bail out frackers in Pennsylvania that need to find a market for their gas," Downs said.

"You think you're an American citizen, you have land that you've worked all your life to get, and some corporate entity can come along and say basically screw you, we want it," said Stack.

The pipeline company has already received approval from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, but they can't move forward without approval from the DEC, which could come any day now. That's why protesters gathered Tuesday in front of the headquarters imploring leaders inside to reject the application.

"People are very angry, but I think people are hopeful that we can actually get a government that represents us. The hundreds of people that came out today fully believe the DEC will do their job and deny this permit," said Downs.

A spokesperson for the DEC says their authority over the project is limited by federal law, but they are continuing to carefully review the plans.