Kevin, regarding the 9/11 Patriot Act. We have a rather amusing thing going on here in Ohio with high-pressure gas line easements. The companies have been forced under the Patriots Act to remove from their websites the exact location of their pipelines.
In what seems like an overreach, they have been clearing all trees within twenty-five feet on the pipelines on the grounds that the tree roots could damage the pipeline, and clearing it would make easier for them to monitor the pipeline by flying over. The original easement rights granted did not address the right to clear any kind of growth outside of maintenance.
The funny thing is, they took the exact location off the website, where only a surveyor could plot the location, and replaced it with a clear cut that anyone with an airplane could find.
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