Posted on 01/25/2016 10:15:38 AM PST by thackney
Seriously, why don’t we all just shelter in place because, you know, some critter somewhere could get injured. And, aren’t we all adding to the carbon footprint anyway by working, or living? So let’s just shut it all down — all of it.
I am so sick of tired of being tired of this crap. Environmentalists need to go to hell...an be done with it
Freegards
LEX
No surprise there.
Must protect the salamanders and squirrels .. From any and all “assumed” and “projected” possible potential dangers.
Environmentalists are just useful idiots. Turn the land over to the states.
And this is why the Feds shouldn’t own these lands.
Why not use existing electrical transmission rights of way? There are already enough of those cutting through the forests and over mountains in WV and western VA.
Need to shut off the gas to region they can heat their homes with wind and solar.
Why not using existing rights of way, following electric transmission lines or along highways?
We prefer to co-locate with existing rights of way where possible, but oftentimes it is not feasible. For example, electric transmission lines can traverse steep terrain in ways pipelines cannot. In addition, there often is not enough room along highway rights of way or there are other restrictions.
Cow Knob Salamander
Cheat Mountain Salamander
Cheat Mountain train wreck. They had one trainwreck and don't want a pipeline wreck
You would think that WV would readily endorse the pipeline as a means of exporting their natural gas. Especially given the decline of coal. Good for their economy but I am sure the NIMBY's (not in my back yard) will fight tooth and nail to support the Forest Service's position.
I’d be willing to bet that many of these Forest Service employees enjoy heat from natural gas, in their homes and offices...and that travels through a pipeline.
Oh, what irony.
Of course they do.
If we are blessed with a shillary or burnie loss these USFS people should be let go and the rest sent packing back to tending Smokey the Bear.
Ben Luckett, staff attorney at Appalachian Mountain Advocates, said the proposed 125-foot-wide construction right of way and 75-foot-wide permanent right of way for the pipeline would result in clear-cutting through the national forests, “causing dramatic forest fragmentation through some of the most high-quality forest habitat in our region.”
Bullspit. It creates habitat.
Game Trails
Electric power rights-of-way, depending on the voltage of the overhead lines, the cross-connections, and the height of the power lines (lowest point) can generate difficult underground voltages (corrosion and static voltages both) in pipelines that are parallel to the power lines.
Even if you “absolutely have to cross” the pipeline easement with the high voltage easement, you get construction problems, the galvanic corrosion and induced static charges, a nd the “parallel path” hills problem during construction.
Best to keep them separate. Or cross perpendicular to the other line.
Pipelines are built in HV Right-of-Ways.
Voltage mitigation is an expense, but not a major expense.
I call them fields of fire and ambush lanes but whatever.
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