Kinder Morgan is seeking an injunction to allow it to begin construction of a natural gas pipeline that would pass through southern Berkshire County on its way to Connecticut.

This pipeline spur would run alongside an existing one, partly through state-owned conservation land in Sandisfield. State law says that would require Kinder Morgan to get two-thirds approval of the legislature.

In court documents, the company says federal approval, received last week, should override the state law. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, or FERC, agrees with the Kinder Morgan.

State Representative Smitty Pignatelli is clearly frustrated.

“Sandisfield and a lot of us have been ‘FERCed,'” Pignatelli says. “And that’s just how I feel. Total disregard from FERC, total disrespect from Kinder Morgan. And someone needs to hold their feet to the fire and hold them accountable.”

The case is scheduled to be heard in Berkshire Superior Court March 30th.

Pignatelli says the outcome of this suit could impact a separate project from Kinder Morgan, its pipeline proposal through northern Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire.