Our town has been invaded

[Texas Ranger]

By pipeliner's.  The Keystone Pipeline runs north south through the eastern part of our county.  We will  have about 45 miles of it, 100 foot wide.

What does this mean for a small east Texas community?  About a years worth of boosted income for the area.  Every RV place is running to full, several new ones started due to the promise of the pipeline. 

I had income generated from some of my clients and the crossing of their property. 

The feds and environmentals opposed this project, as did I.  I still do, but, it will benefit a lot of folks and create jobs here, at least for a while.

[Dodgy Loner]

It's amazing what a difference a project like that can make to a small community. When I was a county agent, I had a fellow agent in east Georgia whose county had a pipeline come through. The tax revenues were almost doubled that year, during a time when most counties were having trouble balancing a budget due to the recession.

[Kansas]

Having a high pressure gas line that was here when I bought the farm sitting 150 yards, from my house, all I can say is I wish it wasn't there. I will never see a dime of income off of it. I realize you have to run a pipeline somewhere. Still.  I had to change the location of where I put my lake in because of it, and it definitely cost me money. There is a downside as a landowner to having a pipeline on your place. I assume that pipeline you refer to is the one from Cushing.

[bama20a]

I drive an over the road truck,out of Birmingham, Al.
80% of my loads out of Birmingham is pipe,(They are alot of pipe yards here.)
I've been hauling it all over the Country,Places that afew years back was unheard of.
Sure makes me wonder what our Gov- is up to :D,

[Wudman]

I manage a number of tracts that are traversed by natural gas pipelines.  Any crossing is always coordinated with the pipe line owner and we are usually required to build the crossing up a couple of feet and cross on drag line mats.  I never paid a lot of mind to working in the neighborhood of these lines until an explosion occurred on one near Appomattox, VA a few years back.  A 48" diameter 800 PSI line makes a pretty good mess when it goes off.  I went through there a few days after the explosion.  Two houses close to the line (a few hundred yards) were burned to the ground.  There were rocks and dirt on roofs a half mile from the line and vinyl siding melted off homes 1000 feet away.  The explosion happened on a Sunday morning and everyone in the immediate area was at church.  There were no injuries, but it certainly got my attention.

Wudman

[clww]

I remember that on the news.