The Pipeline That Texans Are Freaking Out Over (Nope, Not Keystone)

[douglas9]

Earlier this year a couple of billionaires landed a nearly $770 million contract to run a 143-mile long natural gas pipeline through Texas's pristine Big Bend region. As of May 11, rail shipments of pipe had begun to arrive in Big Bend's Fort Stockton area. This recent progress on the pipeline project is fueling pushback from locals who've been concerned about this project since it was announced in November 2014. Big Bend is one of Texas' last unspoiled wilderness areas and one of few remaining holdouts in a state riddled with energy transmission pipelines and large-scale oil and gas activity. Fearing potential land grabs, increased traffic, and environmental desecration, locals have been mobilizing through town hall meetings and launching activist campaigns to oppose it.


http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/05/texas-pipeline-controversy-trans-pecos

[Human101948]

1. Drill, baby, drill!

Gee, funny how it's only a concern when it's in their pristine back yard!

[Fred Sanders]

2. Project announced in November, construction by May?? Texans, who paid off who? You are being had.

What kind of government in power in Texas treads on you?

Recall Abbott, he is corrupt.