Appeal filed contesting Georgia’s rejection of pipeline plan

Pipeline builder Kinder Morgan recently appealed Georgia’s decision to kill the Palmetto Pipeline, which would pass through the state as it runs from South Carolina to Florida.

The Texas-based infrastructure company claims the Georgia Department of Transportation wrongly denied last month a permit needed to build the 210-mile-long gas, diesel and ethanol pipeline through east Georgia. DOT Commissioner Russell McMurry ruled that Kinder Morgan hadn’t demonstrated that the pipeline met a public need.

“The evidence suggests an overall downward trend in fuel consumption and the idea that the pipeline is needed to create current and future increased demands is simply not supported,” McMurry wrote.