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Show Opposition to pipeline grows much more thorough study should be made. Too often we get the feeling feel-ing that more concern is given to the forest lands than to the individual indi-vidual citizens." Carlin Jacobson, councilman of North Salt Lake, said he would like to get his hands on the guy who planned the pipeline route "18 feet from my daughter's bedroom window." Jacobson added that some residents resi-dents of North Salt Lake are "prepared "pre-pared to do anything" to prevent construction of the pipeline near their homes. "We're very concerned about the proposed pipeline," said Jack Balling, public works director for Bountiful. "Much of Bountiful's an earthquake along the Wasatch Front were raised by Renec Coon, chairman of a citizens committee protesting the project. Officials of the Wyoming California Cali-fornia Pipeline Co. (WyCal) were also at the hearing to explain their proposal to build the pipeline. WyCal is only one of several companies com-panies bidding for the project. The Kern River Gas Transmission Co. and the Mojave Pipeline Co. have also expressed their interest to FERC. If Mojave wins the bid, they will not build a pipeline through Utah. Instead, they will go through Arizona and New Mexico to transport gas from Louisiana and Texas to California. The WyCal proposal would take "He would like to get his hands on the guy who planned the pipeline route 18 feet from my daughter's bedroom window" By BRIAN STUART Davis County officials and residents resi-dents voiced concerns over the route planned for a natural gas pipeline through parts of Mueller Park, North Salt Lake City and Holbrook, Millcreek and North Canyons at a recent Federal Energy Ener-gy Regulatory Commission (FERC) hearing. These concerns include possible danger to residents, resi-dents, development, restrictions and harm to the aesthetics value of the canyons. The hearing, held in the State Office Building, drew forth several critics of the "Wasatch Variation" route. This route was planned after U.S. Forest Service officials protested pro-tested the original eastern route through Summit County and Uinta National Forest. The pipeline would traverse 336 miles through Utah to transport 400 million cubic feet of natural gas per day from Evanston, Wyo. down past St. George. One of the critics was Mike Lowe, geologist for Davis County. He said the 30-inch pipeline "would affect slope stability. It would pass over inactive landslides and existing landslides." "We feel the pipeline hasn't met environmental standards in Davis County," he added. The mayor of North Salt Lake, Jake Simmons, said the pipeline would interfere with a planned school site, a four-lane highway, a recently built water tank and the planned residential growth of his city. "We could double in size if we develop in that area," he said. Later he added "Overall, I think this would be good for the state but there are some areas in which a system. Both companies are subsidiaries sub-sidiaries of The Coastal Corporation, Corpora-tion, a Houston-based energy company com-pany with total assets of $7.6 billion. bil-lion. According to Wayne K. Tiller, manager of public affairs for CIG, this company can build a pipeline that will withstand "just about anything any-thing nature can dish out." Tiller said that CIG has built and currently operates 6,000 miles of pipeline. "We had one incident where a high-pressure line ruptured that I remember in the last 25 years," he said. "It was under control in one or two hours; repaired and forgotten. forgot-ten. That was near Denver." Tiller added that if CIG is pushed to accept the Wasatch Variation, the company will "build a line to the satisfaction of residents and in a manner that will be safe." The Wasatch Variation is so called cal-led because it is an alternate route proposed by the Kern River Gas Transmission Co. According to Garth Heaton, energy coordinator for the six Utah National Forests, the original route did not meet environmental standards stan-dards and violated the forest plan for the Uintas. "It would be very difficult to maintain the pipeline there because of landslides," he said. Heaton added that the slides in the Uinta forest were deep-seated and massive, while slides in the canyons ca-nyons above Bountiful and North Salt Lake arc shallow and not massive. mas-sive. "It would be easier to take care of the erosion problems on the Wasatch Variation than in the Uintas," Uin-tas," he said. water comes from streams the Wasatch Alternate Pipeline will cross. The pipeline should be placed on ridges, not in the delicate valleys." I Balling added that another flood or slide, like the ones in 1983 and ',84, can "occur in these canyons where they propose to build the 'pipeline." Dave Brown of the Utah Chapter of the Sierra Club said the pipeline would hurt the beauty of the canyons, ca-nyons, impact Bountiful's developed de-veloped and planned watersheds jand encourage increased off-road ivchiclc use along the corridor re-hcrved re-hcrved for the pipeline. I Fears of a pipeline rupture due to one year to build the $665 million Utah portion of a 1 ,000 mile pipeline pipe-line that will transport gas from southern Wyoming to oil recovery projects near Bakersficld, Calif. The gas will be used to produce steam that will be forced into oil wells to increase output. According to Ethan Gilman, WyCal Engineering vice president, some of the project's benefits are: a $226 million investment in Utah, stimulation of gas exploration in Utah, possible access to gas for those near the pipeline and a reduced re-duced dependence on foreign oil. If WyCal wins the bid, the Colorado Col-orado IntenUtcOu Co. (CIG) will construct and ofmto tlat WyCal |