ApocaDocs: Sinkhole terrain will challenge pipeline developers

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Posted Wed Oct 2 2013: from Louisville Courier-Journal:


	Sinkhole terrain will challenge pipeline developers http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1380724675 Even as landowners and officials battle the merits of the planned Bluegrass Pipeline, experts say that Kentucky's sinkhole and cavern-riddled geology poses major construction and operational challenges to its developers. One geologist said the potential problems are so significant that they need to be fully evaluated before any dirt gets turned on the plan to run about 150 miles of new 24-inch diameter pipeline through Kentucky. The pipeline would carry natural gas liquids from Pennsylvania to the Gulf Coast.

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'Doc Jim says:

Those sinkholes could easily become stinkholes.