Secrecy over pipeline is just to benefit developers
“The Pacific Connector pipeline is the chosen route to bring natural gas from the shale oilfields to a not-yet-built natural gas compression plant at Jordan Cove in Coos Bay.
Private pipeline developers have been granted the power of eminent domain to seize over 300 parcels of private property along the 230-mile Pacific Connector route, but developers are refusing to allow property owners along the route to contact each other because of “the threat of terrorism.”
How hard could it be for bad guys to find a 100-foot wide scar on the landscape that extends for 230 miles across nearly the entire state of Oregon?”
McLean, Fergus. Statesman Journal 26 July 2014.