{"id":2544,"date":"2016-10-16T18:05:44","date_gmt":"2016-10-16T22:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/?p=2544"},"modified":"2016-10-16T18:07:53","modified_gmt":"2016-10-16T22:07:53","slug":"bob-ford-on-the-new-sheetz-mountaineer-gas-and-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/?p=2544","title":{"rendered":"Bob Ford on Sheetz Mountaineer Gas and Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Morgan County Commissioner Bob Ford says that there will be a public outcry over the proposed gas pipeline coming under the C&amp;O Canal west of Hancock, Maryland.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dAzW5ooPy7U\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ford said that \u201cit took an act of Congress to build the C&amp;O Canal.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThat\u2019s a national historic park,\u201d Ford said. \u201cIt\u2019s not just a national park. It\u2019s a national historic park.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As for the prospects of the proposed gas pipeline, \u201cI\u2019ll believe it when I see it,\u201d Ford said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Columbia Gas is proposing a pipeline that will come under the C&amp;O Canal and the Potomac River and deliver fracked gas from Pennsylvania to a West Virginia pipeline proposed by Mountaineer Gas that will cut through Berkeley Springs and head east to customers in Martinsburg.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI know U.S. Silica tried feverishly a couple of times to get a pipeline,\u201d Ford told This Week in Morgan County with Russell Mokhiber. \u201cHad they had the ability to get that pipeline, we could have had Corning Glass here, we could have had other companies here. What they wanted to make &#8212; the cookware and pottery &#8212; required a lot of sand, but also a lot of gas. U.S. Silica was never successful in getting that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What stopped them from getting it?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe hurdles that they had to cross are horrendous,\u201d Ford said. \u201cThey have to get under the historic park. Don\u2019t take that park land lightly. It\u2019s almost like sacred ground. There will be public outcry. It will be unbelieveable.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI\u2019ll sit back and see what happens. Getting under the river is not a big deal. Do they have the ability to drill under the river and the canal to make this happen? Certainly we have the ability. The technology is there. It\u2019s just the will to go through a national historic park.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ford said that he is concerned that when the new Sheetz goes in at the corner of Rt. 13 and US 522, that the old Sheetz at the corner of Rt. 9 and US 522 will be boarded up. Ford said that he has been in contact with the real estate agent for Sheetz and is discussing possible alternatives for that site.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ford is one of the few Republican office holders in the eastern panhandle who is actively campaigning for Donald Trump for President. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ford said that the polling showing Trump losing ground is wrong and predicted that Trump will win the election \u201cin a landslide.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morgan County Commissioner Bob Ford says that there will be a public outcry over the proposed gas pipeline coming under the C&amp;O Canal west of Hancock, Maryland. 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