"People didn't think there was another side to putting in pipelines".
Getting Russian oil to America's West Coast from terminals on the Pacific Ocean in the Russian Far East -- the shortest route -- will require spending billions to put in pipelines from western Siberian oilfields and to develop the rich Magadan and Chukotka shelves in the extreme Northeast.
Botsford says, "That amount just reflects the potential damages to the land by putting in a pipeline, but does not include the value to Enbridge to acquire the rights, nor the costs of cleaning up a spill or leak".
"Drilling for new oil, or putting in natural gas pipelines, is not how we are going to get energy security," said Melanie Duchin, a member of Greenpeace.
"All crude oils have to meet the same criteria when put in a pipeline, which protects the pipeline and communities along its route".
John O'Grady, communications manager for Northern Gas Networks, who took part in the discussions with Hockney, said: "His concern was that, because we are putting in this massive new gas pipeline, the environment could have been affected detrimentally.
But as developers have "discovered" the seaside casino haven over the last few years, more than 1,500 new housing units have been put in the pipeline.
You can hear the crazy American music as the stories whir by, interrupting one another and tangling together: In West Virginia, one hundred workers hired to put in a pipeline go on strike.
It's only once you add it in to the things we heard about in June and the things Mr [Alistair] Darling had already put in the pipeline for next year that it becomes progressive.
"It's only once you add it in to the things we heard about in June and the things Mr Darling had already put in the pipeline for next year that it becomes progressive".
