Bluegrass Pipeline acquired 40% of land needed for project
“Opponents are getting vocal over a proposed natural gas liquids pipeline that is expected to run through 13 Kentucky counties.
The Bluegrass Pipeline says it has already acquired 40 percent of the land needed to run the pipeline through Kentucky.
The Pekny family lives about a half mile down stream from where the pipeline is planned to cross the Kentucky River.
Deb Pekny is opposed to the project. She says, “I went from being concerned to worried to scared out of my mind, and now that fear is fueled by anger.”
WDRB.com’s Marcus Green and Valerie Chinn sat down with Bill Lawson, a representative of the Williams Company. Williams and Boardwalk Pipeline Partners are planning to build an 1123-mile natural gas liquids pipeline from the Northeastern U.S. to the Gulf Coast. The companies are currently acquiring land and negotiating with farmers and land owners.
When asked what happens when landowners don’t want to give up their property for the project, Lawson says, “There is always opportunities to move to the right or to the left and we’re finding lots of willing land owners to engage in this conversation.””
Chinn, Valerie. WDRB.com 19 November 2013.