Kinder Morgan’s Georgia-to-Florida pipeline project suffers more setbacks

In Georgia, a Fulton County court superior judge refused to overturn the state’s transportation commissioner’s decision to deny Kinder Morgan’s desire to use eminent domain as a way to force unwilling sellers to turn over their land for a proposed $1 billion pipeline from Georgia to Florida that would transport 7 million gallons of gasoline, diesel and ethanol a day. The state’s House of Representatives approved a bill the same day imposing a moratorium on the project until July 2017 when new oversight procedures for the project could be written.