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Ga. House considers easing pipeline restrictions
By GREG BLUE STEIN
Associated Press Writer
ATLANTA - House law
makers could soon consider
a proposal that would clear
the way for oil companies
to seize private property to
build petroleum pipelines,
despite objections from crit
ics who worry it tramples
property rights.
The measure, which
cleared the Senate earlier
this month, would roll back a
series of hurdles imposed in
1995 for new pipelines built
near current lines. A version
of the bill unveiled Tuesday
in the House Judiciary
Committee also includes
a provision that sponsors
said would ban any pipeline
expansion south of Atlanta.
The proposal is designed
for Colonial Pipeline, which
hopes to beef up a 46-mile
stretch to Powder Springs
but fears the restrictions
would bog down the process.
The $1 billion project can’t
move forward unless the
state law is changed, said
Sam Whitehead, a lobbyist
with the company.
Critics argue that the oil
crisis is being exaggerated
by oil companies and that
the bill could be expanded in
the future to give other utili
ties, like natural gas compa
nies, the same freedoms.
They also expressed con
cern over language that
could allow the oil compa
nies to seize property even
further from existing routes
to avoid historic sites, envi
ronmentally sensitive land
or densely developed areas.
“If pipeline folks can devi
ate, I think property own
ers can argue they shouldn’t
deviate,” said state Rep. Ed
Lindsey, R-Atlanta.
The additional steps
were required by a 1995
law passed at the urging
of south Georgia landown
ers who feared a pipeline
would be built to the Florida
line. The hurdles include
requirements that utilities
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get an environmental cer
tificate from state transit
officials and hold a hearing
to prove a public need for
the project. Since then, util
ity companies say, no new
petroleum pipeline has been
built in Georgia. That’s also
prompted some opponents of
the measure to wonder why
lawmakers would consider
changing a process that’s
never been used before.
“Under Georgia law, you
have everything you would
need to do this now,” said
state Rep. Mack Crawford,
R-Concord. “Except for the
timeframe.”
The measure, sponsored by
Sen. Ross Tolleson, awaits a
vote by the House Judiciary
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they had broken the dead
bolt.
She said she was with her
brother - the owner at the
time - at the hospital in
Macon, at the time of inci
dent. He has since died and
she now owns the proper
ty and has spent $7,200 to
clean it up.
She said a former tenant
of her brother’s left the cats
in the second apartment; she
had only learned of them the
previous day and was work
ing to place them.
“The conditions of the sec
ond apartment were appall
ing,” said Parks-Mathern.
“No food, no water - officers
had to have air packs to
enter,” because of the ani
mal waste everywhere.
Parks-Mathern said the
conditions of McAnally’s
home “were better, cleaner.
There was food and water.”
McAnally, a volunteer with
HARPS for seven years, said
the 45 cats in her residence
were hers, not HARPS. She
also said she was trying to
adopt them out. She claimed
all had been to the vet in
the past year and those that
were sick were on medica
tion.
Of the 133 cats found, 112
were euthanized that night,
Parks-Mathern said. All the
cats put down were sick, she
said. “They were advised the
sick ones would be put to
sleep.”
McAnally countered that
only 10 were sick. “Ten little
cats with sniffles - being
medicated. It’s a good thing
they don’t put people in the
gas chamber for the sniffles,
especially this time of year.”
McAnally was allowed to
keep four of the cats, Parks-
Mathern said, with the
understanding that one cat
would go to her daughter
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at another residence. Five
were taken to the animal
shelter and later adopted
by a Persian rescue group
in Atlanta, and another 11
went to Southwood Animal
Hospital for potential place
ment, she said.
McAnally said HARPS vol
unteers were on scene and
offered to take the animals
or to have a veterinarian
come out from Southwood
and humanely euthanize
them.
Parks-Mathern said the
incident occurred Friday
night. The offer from HARPS
for Southwood to do it was
for the following Monday.
The animals were put down
in the Warner Robins Animal
Shelter gas chamber, which
the city has been operating
prior to a 1990 law change
banning the use. Those that
had been in use prior to the
change were grandfathered
in and are still permitted to
operate. A recent injunction
in Fulton County Superior
Court on the use of the gas
chambers does not apply
to those grandfathered in,
Parks-Mathern said.
Two dead cats, not includ
ed in the 133, were also
found in the vicinity of the
property. Parks-Mathern
said one dead cat was found
inside the vacant apartment
and another was found the
next day in a park across the
street.
She said Wednesday’s
hearing is just preliminary
or plea hearing. If McAnally
pleads not guilty then a
trial will be scheduled in
Municipal Court.
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their bereavement. ‘’Mr
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