Company seeks OK to build 130-mile oil pipeline
WINDOW ROCK
If right-of-ways are granted by federal, state, private and tribal landowners to Saddle Butte LLC, construction of a 130-mile oil pipeline would begin this summer.
Called the Pinion Pipeline Project, it would transport approximately 15,000 barrels of oil per day from the proposed Lybrook Terminal facility in Rio Arriba County, N.M., to a point along the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway, according to the Bureau of Land Management’s Farmington field office.
The proposed pipeline project would cross BLM, private, state of New Mexico and Navajo lands.
Specifically on Navajo, the proposal would impact the chapters of Counselor, Nageezi, Ojo Encino, and Torreon.
To learn more about this project, the public is encouraged to attend a scoping meeting today at 5 p.m. at the Lybrook Elementary School in Lybrook, N.M.
Highway 264,
I-40, WB @ Winslow