Dear Friends and Fossil Advocates:
My concerns focus on three areas:
1. Pipeline Safety
2. Terror Targets
3. Alternative Solution

1. If one takes a look at the US DOT database for the reporting and collection of pipeline breaks, whether by accident, construction, metal erosion, metal fatigue, and corrosion of fittings, valves and bolts, one comes away with a sense that a study using fault tree analysis is in order for determining the likelihood of a catastrophic uncontrolled event.
2. Injecting a high-explosives target into the heavily populated New England area is inconsistent with national security strategy when alternatives are available to mitigate the risk to the general population from potential terror targeting not secured inside a secure containment building.
3. With the latest thrust to extract natural gas from the farmlands of Pennsylvania, upstate New York, eastern Ohio and West Virginia using Hydraulic fracturing, a method which uses high-pressure water, or gel to induce fractures in surrounding rock known as the “Marcellus Shale” formation and supported by an infrastructure of pipe systems to bring the gas to high population markets.

This assumes of course that all environmental, clean water and pollution mitigation requirements will be met and enforced. A solution our vested interests and local businesses may not endorse however.

Cheers,
Wernerlll