Starting last year, federal regulators began urging pipeline operators to replace aging systems. Nowhere may that be more critical than in Texas, which is experiencing a major change in how crude oil is flowing up and down the state. Read more at StateImpact Texas.
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Casey Bennett via Texas Tribune on Facebook
All politics aside,,,literally. I worked for a company that was just 'clearing' the brush and trees off the Longhorn Pipeline, and we had more trouble from the conservationists than the land owners. Much less try digging one up to put another down. There has to be some give on the side of the conservationists. The landowners are locked into that specific section of land, and yet the Federal and State conservationists still tell the landowner, and pipe line operators how to conduct their business.