What steps are involved in the process of determining where the pipeline will be located?
The first step is for the company to use maps and aerial photography to identify possible corridors for the pipeline. Next, the company identifies the names and addresses of landowners along the preferred corridor. Once the landowners in a county are known, each landowner will be contacted either in person or will receive a letter from the company introducing the project. The first major part of the process of working with each landowner is for the land rights negotiator to explain the surveys that must be conducted on their property, and to obtain permission to conduct these surveys. Once the initial information is compiled from surveys of the identified properties, further surveys may be necessary if the initial corridor is adjusted. By the end of 2008, Ruby Pipeline intends to have its survey work completed and make its application to the FERC, showing our preferred route and several alternate routes investigated in the process of identifying the preferred route.
