GasWest pipeline on N6

Carawaystick

There's a gas pipeline being built under the hard shoulder of the N6 between Loughrea and Craughwell, BGN's website is out of date
http://www.bordgais.ie/networks/index.jsp?1nID=102&2nID=105&pID=369&nID=627

Thing is a new Gas powered Electric power station was built in Tynagh a few km away from Loughrea a while ago.
Why didn't they build the pipeline to Loughrea then?

Why do they build the pipeline under roads?
I know there's plenty of other pipelines going cross country through fields elsewhere in the country.

Delta Kilo

I don't think the gas pipeline and the power station are related so why would they have been built at the same time? This is for home heating. Just like water, it is along roads so people can tap into it, it is easy to access it for maintenance, no farmers have to get compensation, more cost effective and easier basically.

Carawaystick

There's a new pipeline built recently from Mayo to Galway, a(nother) pipeline had to be laid to the power station in Tynagh. The station was only built there cos it's a polluted wasteland.
Surely the line from Tynagh to the main Mayo pipeline'd be nearer to Loughrea, than Craughwell?

Where the new pipeline is being laid is in the sticks, There's only about 40 houses along the route. It's a gas main though, it needs to supply a whole town with gas.

I'd imagine there's a rule allowing Bord Gáis to lay a pipeline over private property like the ESB can run a powerline over your land with no recourse to the landowner.

L1011

A gas pipeline dug under your property is a lot more damaging and intrusive than power lines going over, so I doubt they can just force one through.

The road its being laid under should be detrunked within months so its not like it'll be majorly disruptive to access it. Not sure why they couldn't have done it AFTER the M6 opened though.

Carawaystick

MYOB wrote: »

A gas pipeline dug under your property is a lot more damaging and intrusive than power lines going over, so I doubt they can just force one through.

The road its being laid under should be detrunked within months so its not like it'll be majorly disruptive to access it. Not sure why they couldn't have done it AFTER the M6 opened though.

Or laid the pipeline under the new Loughrea Link road and the M6?

L1011

Repair access to one under a motorway would be extremely, exceptionally, unprecedentedly disruptive.