Easements being sought for Bluegrass Pipeline

“In the roughly two months before state legislators reconvene to consider bills that could block the Bluegrass Pipeline, the companies involved in the project are nailing down easements – and opponents are meticulously trying to track their progress.

Pipeline agents have reportedly offered six-figure payments to some landowners along the proposed route through Kentucky. That route enters the state from Ohio through Bracken County and then crosses 12 other counties.

Penny Greathouse said she got a call Tuesday with a $350,000 offer to bury the 2-foot-diameter pipeline through her hundreds of acres in Franklin County.”

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Quinn, Ryan. Cincinnati News 31 October 2013.