Williams Plans to Double Natural Gas Volume in Lewis County Pipeline (KELA Radio, Centralia, WA)

(CHEHALIS) – The proposed liquefied natural gas terminal in Oregon has a Lewis County connection.  The Williams Company wants to build a new natural gas line from Sumas to Woodland.  A company spokeswoman says they’d mostly work inside their existing right-of-way.  That means the existing 30-inch pipeline would get a bigger brother, a 36-inch pipeline. That’s an extra 750 million cubic feet of natural gas a day or a 50-percent increase. The pipeline isn’t expected to be operational  until 2018.  An open house is planned August 17 at the Veteran’s Memorial Museum in Chehalis at 6 p.m.