A little karma, maybe?
Fred Messerle and friends will not escape the negative effects of the Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline, it appears.
Pacific Connector determined that both the proposed route and the Modified Blue Ridge 2013 Alternative Route are constructible. The Modified Blue Ridge 2013 Alternative Route would shift portions of the pipeline from land owned by private individuals and timber companies to federal land managed by the Coos Bay District of the BLM. However, a number of landowners
along the Modified Blue Ridge 2013 Alternative Route object to it, believing that the alternative would affect the value of their properties, clear more forest including old growth, and impact wildlife and waterbodies, particularly Daniels Creek.14 We conclude that the proposed route is environmentally preferable, because while temporary and short-term impacts on waterbodies and their associated aquatic resources crossed by the proposed route could be avoided, reduced, or mitigated by certain measures implemented by Pacific Connector, the additional crossings of LSOG forest and NSO and MAMU habitats along the Modified Blue Ridge 2013 Alternative would cause long-term impacts and an irretrievable loss of critical habitat that could not be easily
mitigated. Therefore, the Modified Blue Ridge 2013 Alternative would not offer significant environmental advantages over the proposed route.
