Tonight a representative from the company proposing to build a natural gas pipeline across eastern Pennsylvania was supposed to be at the Towamensing Township Supervisors’ meeting to answer questions from concerned residents. Late yesterday we received an email that the representative would not be attending the meeting. This is the second time the company has cancelled. Supposedly a meeting in Palmerton next month will answer all our questions.
My thought is that the pipeline company is hoping that with enough cancellations people will give up. It is also easier for residents to attend their own township meeting than to go to one in Palmerton., so the number of angry people will be reduced. The pipeline is not going through Palmerton.
Since there was no meeting tonight, I will share the questions I was planning to ask. I had them all printed out on a two-page statement I was prepared to distribute.
1. Is the landowner responsible for keeping the right-of-way above the pipeline clear of trees and vegetation, or does the company do that?
2. What is the circumference of the pipeline?
3. Will the gas in the pipeline be refined? Is it true that unrefined gas, straight from the wellhead, is more likely to explode?
4. Who maintains liability if the pipeline explodes?
5. Can UGI transfer responsibility or sell the pipeline to another company? What happens if the company goes bankrupt? If either of those contingencies occur, of what value are the company’s assurances?
6. Will our homeowner’s insurance increase as a result of the pipeline?
No comments:
Post a Comment