To: X-spurt
More than that.
The ranchers in Nebraska have been burned by pipelines before. You don't want a massive spill on your land, and the FedGov coming in and say that the rancher has to deal with it. Or the pumping company pulling out after the leak.
This is right over the biggest aquifer in the US, and the ranchers have a history of getting burned. Honestly, I can't blame them for being paranoid.
8 posted on
02/13/2013 9:49:44 AM PST by
redgolum
("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
To: redgolum
Horse hockey.
By any measure, pipelines are the safest and least environmental damaging way to transport oil, gas or product.
As a Texas landowner who has pipelines across my property, most of the “situations” between rancher/landowners and pipelines are more to do with money.
10 posted on
02/13/2013 11:35:56 AM PST by
X-spurt
(Republic of Texas, Come and Take It!)
To: redgolum
The aquifer is irrelevant. Check with the Nebraska hydrogeologists. This is about political payoffs. If "Nebraska ranchers" got burned in the past, they needed better lawyers not green weenies and mindless obstructionists.
To: redgolum
This is right over the biggest aquifer in the US, and the ranchers have a history of getting burned. The aquifer is not at risk. Oil is, after all, lighter than water.
13 posted on
02/13/2013 7:02:51 PM PST by
okie01
(The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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