Editor’s Note: Allen Fore, vice president for public affairs for Kinder Morgan, the company planning a natural gas pipeline through the Wimberley Valley, sat down with Managing Editor Anita Miller Thursday. Here’s what he had to say. (It has been edited for length.)
SMDR: Have you been surprised by the reaction?
ALLEN FORE: No. Let me qualify that by saying the interest doesn’t surprise me. It’s not unusual that we get a lot of interest in any of our infrastructure projects, but the, um, in Texas if you look at this in a global perspective, and we work across the country from the northeast to California and we see this regularly, interest in infrastructure development from larger policy interests. What I mean by that, at our open houses we’ve had a lot of activists interested in climate change and other hydrocarbon interests beyond the construction of one pipeline ...We haven’t seen that as much in Texas.
