Natural gas pipeline planned for Norfolk
Posted: Wednesday, June 04, 2008
LINCOLN (AP) -- Norfolk may be getting the natural gas pipeline that developers said the city needed a year ago when plans for a $40 million soybean plant were scrapped.
Norfolk officials on Tuesday announced plans to build a 54-mile natural gas pipeline that would extend from Columbus. Nebraska Resources Company plans to build the pipeline. Aquila has agreed to ship gas through the pipeline to serve customers in Norfolk.
Last summer, an inadequate supply of natural gas caused developers to abandon plans to build a soybean processing plant in Norfolk. They set their sights on South Sioux City instead.
The planned pipeline would be an extension of a new, 140-mile pipeline that Nebraska Resources Company plans to build from Clay Center to Columbus. The total cost of the entire pipeline is expected to be $85 million to $100 million. It could be completed in mid-2010.
The pipeline must still be approved by the state Public Service Commission.
Norfolk officials on Tuesday announced plans to build a 54-mile natural gas pipeline that would extend from Columbus. Nebraska Resources Company plans to build the pipeline. Aquila has agreed to ship gas through the pipeline to serve customers in Norfolk.
Last summer, an inadequate supply of natural gas caused developers to abandon plans to build a soybean processing plant in Norfolk. They set their sights on South Sioux City instead.
The planned pipeline would be an extension of a new, 140-mile pipeline that Nebraska Resources Company plans to build from Clay Center to Columbus. The total cost of the entire pipeline is expected to be $85 million to $100 million. It could be completed in mid-2010.
The pipeline must still be approved by the state Public Service Commission.
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