Girard leaders review pipeline agreement

Girard leaders review pipeline agreement

Girard leaders review pipeline agreement

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City council will review an agreement for a Halcon pipeline to transmit natural gas through part of city property around its two lakes.

Halcon is drilling into the Utica Shale in northern Trumbull County and western Pennsylvania.

The 14-mile-long line would transmit gas from Halcon’s well fields there through property west of the lower lake to a fuel depot near rail lines in Lordstown.

The proposal includes a 40-foot easement on city property. The city was to be paid $132,000 for the easement.

In November, council authorized the city’s mayor, law director and safety-services director to negotiate the agreement.

Law director Brian Kren said Monday after council’s meeting that more money was negotiated, and Halcon will now pay the city $150,500.

He said the city’s representatives negotiated more protections for the city in what was Halcon’s standard pipeline agreement.

Included in those protections are more comprehensive insurance, a company contact person, notification when Halcon maintains the property and the city’s right to salvage timber from trees the company cuts down.

Council will review the agreement, which will have a second reading at its next meeting March 24.

Council could vote on it at that time or move it to a third reading, Kren said.

“Once this agreement is entered into, it will be forever,” said Kren, urging council members to “read it thoroughly.”