Company planning to build gas pipeline through coastal Georgia
“A 360-mile pipeline carrying gasoline, diesel and ethanol could stretch across the length of Coastal Georgia by 2017, connecting an existing pipeline running through South Carolina to Jacksonville.
Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, the third largest energy company in North America, has been sending notices to property owners along the proposed path for its Palmetto Pipeline Project telling them to familiarize themselves with Georgia’s laws on eminent domain.
Some of those property owners have expressed concern to Satilla Riverkeeper Ashby Nix about what the notices may mean for their property and about what the environmental impacts of a gasoline pipeline might be.
Nix learned about the project when Coastal Georgia residents began receiving their notices.
The company announced this past November that it has enough commitments from shippers to proceed with building the $1 billion Palmetto Pipeline to run from the Plantation Pipeline in Belton, S.C., through the Augusta area and south through areas that include Glynn and Camden counties.
Buried approximately 4 feet deep, the pipeline would be between 16 and 20 inches in diameter.
“Contract terms will range from five to 10 years per shipper, and the project remains on track for an in-service date of July 2017, pending regulatory approvals,” according to an announcement by the company.
Once completed, the pipeline would carry as much as 167,000 barrels per day along the 360-mile route and would serve as an expansion of the Plantation Pipeline, of which Kinder Morgan owns 51 percent.”
Hall, Michael. The Brunswick News 2 March 2015.