Pipeline giant Kinder Morgan would very much like to route a pipeline over the aquifer and through the woods, grandmother’s house be damned. Or condemned, as the case may be.
We are talking about KM’s planned Permian Highway Pipeline, a 430-mile-long, 42-inch-diameter natural gas pipeline planned to run through the heart of the Texas Hill Country and over the extraordinarily sensitive Trinity and Edwards Aquifers, the water supply for millions of Texans, including residents of San Antonio.
The Trinity Edwards is not just any old, run-of-the-mill aquifer. It’s a karst aquifer. Spill some natural gas liquids or condensate full of benzene or toluene into it and we’ll never get the poison out.
The Trinity Edwards is not a bowl of water that can be rinsed and cleaned. It’s full of caverns and sinkholes. It’s a limestone sponge riddled with pathways running hither and yon.
Read more from Ashley Waymouth in Austin American-Statesman here.
Opinion: Through grandmother’s house it goes – Kinder Morgan’s pipeline, that is
