FERC should further study

“As if the proposed Constitution Pipeline were not controversial enough, given environmental concerns, the issue of eminent domain and suspicions about the ultimate use of the 122-mile project, recently the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has gotten involved.

While backers of the $750 million project insist that the pipeline would not harm the environment, we only have to look at the recent major oil spill in Arkansas to realize that accidents do happen. We have also been uncomfortable with the concept of using eminent domain on a private rather than public project.”

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Nisgra Gazette 11 April 2013.