Texas landowners fight Kinder Morgan's $2B pipeline proposal

[douglas9]

FREDERICKSBURG, Texas (AP) — Landowners in Texas Hill Country are scrambling to figure out how to reroute or stop a $2 billion natural gas pipeline proposed by a Houston-based company.

Kinder Morgan is surveying the Permian Highway Pipeline's possible route running 430 miles (692 kilometers) from the Permian Basin oil and gas field in West Texas to a location near Katy, a Houston suburb. But property owners in Hill Country are looking into their rights and the company's ability to utilize eminent domain, the San Antonio Express-News reported.

Allen Fore, a Kinder Morgan spokesman, said the company will work with landowners to make route adjustments. Kinder Morgan owns or runs 26,000 miles (41,840 kilometers) of pipelines throughout Texas.

The company has already contacted the owners of nearly all the 1,070 properties across the 16 counties that the pipeline would cut through, Fore said.

If the company receives all needed permits and approvals, it hopes to begin construction this fall and be in service by late 2020.

https://www.chron.com/news/texas/article/Texas-landowners-fight-Kinder-Morgan-s-2B-13514523.php

[TexasTowelie]

1. If it has to happen (which most likely will be the case),

then I hope that they can at least avoid the more scenic areas of the Hill Country. I don't see much that can be done to block the pipeline with the Republicans in control of almost everything in the state, including the counties that the pipeline would traverse.

[LakeSuperiorView]

2. Run it through a highway easment. Already government property, already mostly cleared land,

already mostly level. Some disruptions to traffic as they go through interchanges, but no court battles...