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I am not a treehugger by any stretch.
I'm hearing a lot of talk lately about officials deciding to cut down a bunch of trees in order to access a pipeline to do maintenance in this area. It sounds like they need to cut the pipeline because they are capping a wellhead further up the line and now the pipeline needs to be rerouted. The officials have appointed experts that say that if the surrounding forest is not completely shaved to ground level then it could interfere with the work and make it take a great deal more time. The experts are also concerned that the pipeline could, if the workers are not careful, could be reason for contamination which would cause even more environmental issue than simply eliminating the obstacles at the get go.
Don't we have better technology and equipment these days that can allow for simple pipeline maintenance without affecting the surrounding environment. I thought I heard about new types of equipment that was better on the environment and did require as much room to operate. Seems like they could just cut a small access road to get to the affected part of the line instead of taking out a lot of the forest. I don't know, maybe they can just plant new trees when all is said and done. Perhaps everything will grow back.
I'm hearing a lot of talk lately about officials deciding to cut down a bunch of trees in order to access a pipeline to do maintenance in this area. It sounds like they need to cut the pipeline because they are capping a wellhead further up the line and now the pipeline needs to be rerouted. The officials have appointed experts that say that if the surrounding forest is not completely shaved to ground level then it could interfere with the work and make it take a great deal more time. The experts are also concerned that the pipeline could, if the workers are not careful, could be reason for contamination which would cause even more environmental issue than simply eliminating the obstacles at the get go.
Don't we have better technology and equipment these days that can allow for simple pipeline maintenance without affecting the surrounding environment. I thought I heard about new types of equipment that was better on the environment and did require as much room to operate. Seems like they could just cut a small access road to get to the affected part of the line instead of taking out a lot of the forest. I don't know, maybe they can just plant new trees when all is said and done. Perhaps everything will grow back.
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