by Kate Shunney
Maryland’s Board of Public Works voted on Wednesday, January 2 not to grant an easement across the Western Maryland Rail Trail to Columbia Gas/TransCanada for an 8-inch natural gas pipeline.
The gas company has received state environmental approval and federal energy commission certificates to go ahead with the 3.4-mile, $25 million pipeline project, but still had to secure several other approvals in order to proceed.
Western Maryland Rail Trail at Berm and…
