Plans in works for Michigan natural gas pipeline

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DETROIT (AP) — Plans are in the works for a new natural gas
transmission pipeline that could pass through Michigan on its way to
Ontario, Canada, raising concerns among some residents whose properties
have already been dug up for an ongoing oil pipeline project.
Company
spokeswoman Vicki Granado said the natural gas project by ET Rover
Pipeline, a subsidiary of Energy Transfer Partners, is in a pre-filing
process. Another application is due to the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission in January.
"As currently contemplated, the project
will be a 42-inch pipeline with a design capacity up to 3.25 billion
cubic feet per day," Granado said.
ET Rover Pipeline projects that
the project will create more than 5,000 temporary construction jobs and
30 to 40 additional permanent jobs. About 150 miles of the pipeline
would be in Michigan, passing through Washtenaw, Livingston, Oakland,
Macomb and St. Clair counties.
The proposed gas pipeline would
partially track the route of the major oil pipeline that’s being
replaced by Canadian company Enbridge across Michigan’s Lower Peninsula,
the Detroit Free Press reported (http://on.freep.com/1r2J1Ke ).
Jeffrey
Insko, an Oakland County resident, has an online blog for property
owners to share experiences and information about the Enbridge project.
If the gas project is approved, backhoes, bulldozers and work crews
could return to some of the same areas along the oil pipeline’s route to
Sarnia, Ontario.
"To think of having their lives disrupted and
their property torn up again when it hasn’t even been fully restored is a
demoralizing prospect," Insko said.
Granado said "many factors
are carefully analyzed when designing a pipeline route, including
environmental issues and community impact.
"The company works very
hard to be a good neighbor/partner in the communities in which it does
business, and our work in Michigan will be no different," she said.

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