Project ID for hadoop2 cannot be determined

[chris31417]

I am using an existing GCS account and have set GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS. I have created a gcs bucket and enabled access for it. However I get the following persistent error when running the program on ubuntu 16.04.

./bin/pg2bq -Dconfig.file=configuration.conf
2018-03-14 18:21:01,557 [main] WARN org.apache.hadoop.util.NativeCodeLoader - Unable to load native-hadoop library for your platform... using builtin-java classes where applicable
2018-03-14 18:21:01,675 [main] WARN org.apache.spark.util.Utils - Your hostname, PitStopIdeaPad resolves to a loopback address: 127.0.1.1; using 192.168.1.105 instead (on interface wlp8s0)
2018-03-14 18:21:01,676 [main] WARN org.apache.spark.util.Utils - Set SPARK_LOCAL_IP if you need to bind to another address
2018-03-14 18:21:02,755 [main] INFO com.google.cloud.hadoop.fs.gcs.GoogleHadoopFileSystemBase - GHFS version: 1.6.1-hadoop2
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: A project ID is required for this service but could not be determined from the builder or the environment. Please set a project ID using the builder.