Permian Basin natural gas pipeline could be blocked by lawsuit filed by Sierra Club

The Albuquerque Journal ^ | May 7, 2020 | Adrian Hedden

[CedarDave]

Source article is from Carlsbad Current-Argus newspaper, a USA Today paper so title and link only authorized on Free Republic.

Permian Basin natural gas pipeline could be blocked by lawsuit filed by Sierra Club

[CedarDave]

The article reports that the Sierra Club has filed suit claiming the US Army Corps of Engineers' (ACOE) ignored a court order that could have invalidated permitting allowing the line to be built over bodies of water. The court order came from a federal judge in Montana. The court struck down issuance of Nationwide Permit 12 (NWP12), which “authorized discharges of dredged or fill material” into certain waters as needed by pipeline projects. The Sierra Club says the ACOE did not follow regulations by issuing a permit to Kinder Morgan without conducting necessary environmental reviews.

Also opposing the pipeline route are local towns and counties along the route, and the Texas Railroad Commission (the O&G permitting authority in Texas) has issued a notice of violation because of a previous spill in a nearby county.

[an amused spectator]

Sounds like Obama’s little Resistance saboteur Brian Morris [District Court for the District of Montana]...

[CedarDave]

Sounds like Obama’s little Resistance saboteur Brian Morris [District Court for the District of Montana]...

Yes, that's the one who issued the order.

[CedarDave]

The decision the judge issued related to permitting of the Keystone XL pipeline and the Sierra Club is saying it applies to the Kinder Morgan pipeline also.

[an amused spectator]

We're going to be dealing with this Obama termite for quite a while.

He's only 56 years old.

[marron]

Judge-shopping.

[SanchoP]

“If completed, the Permian Highway Pipeline could devastate communities, clean water, and wildlife along the route, and the Army Corps can’t just ignore these impacts,” said Sierra Club Senior Campaign Representative Roddy Hughes.
“The fact that there’s already been a spill into the local water supply in the early stages of construction makes it more obvious than ever that the Corps must not allow the continuing construction of this dirty fracked gas pipeline without analysis of its environmental impacts and full local public participation in the permitting process.”

Who are these idiots? He's describing a regular oil pipeline.Natural gas doesn't spill it blows out.

[hoosierham]

Most environmental activists ought to be prosecuted under RICO.

[crusty old prospector]

What body of water? The Pecos River?

[CedarDave]

That’s one of them. The article says there are 449 water crossings between the Waha Hub and Katy Texas. Obviously every river, creek, slough and swamp along the route, and in west Texas, likely the dry ones that flow only in response to precipitation.

[henkster]

Most environmental activists are paid by China. Their armies of lawyers and lobbyists don’t get their lavish salaries because grandma sent $10 after seeing a photo of a sad looking polar bear in the Sierra Club ad in Good Housekeeping.

Follow the money.

[henkster]

Oh, one other thing....

After China has finished gutting our economy and bought up all our assets (farmland and mineral rights), watch the money for these groups dry up, and they disappear. The EPA gets repealed or gutted along with it.

[Wonder Warthog]

Aren’t there already pipelines from the Permian to east Texas?? They’ve been producing in that area for a LONG time.

[ronnie raygun]

Sierra club funded by soros

[CedarDave]

Aren’t there already pipelines from the Permian to east Texas?? They’ve been producing in that area for a LONG time.

There are; a very LONG time for some older pipelines. However with all the new production that came on line as a result of directional drilling and fracking (prior to the COVID-19 virus killing the economy), the existing lines are at capacity.

This pipeline is for natural gas, which otherwise would be flared as it is coproduced with the oil from the wells. However flaring is wasteful and under attack by the same eco-wackos as a contributor too global warming (and of course their whole effort is to shut down all types of fossil fuel production).

[Wonder Warthog]

I’m not being sufficiently clear. If there are already pipelines, why is there a regulatory issue at all (assuming that this new line is following the same path as the others).

Hopefully, a higher court will overrule this dork.