Fort Worth homeowner gets final-offer letter on gas pipeline

FORT WORTH — A natural gas company has given at least one east-side resident until Monday to sign off on a pipeline beneath her front yard or face condemnation. The company, Chesapeake Energy’s Texas Midstream Gas Services, sent the "final offer" letter to Jerry Horton, who has organized a few holdout homeowners against the pipeline. It wasn’t clear whether other landowners got the same letter; Texas Midstream officials indicated, however, that they had sent more than one letter. Horton, a critic of Texas Midstream and Chesapeake, said, "I want everyone to know what they’re doing." Texas Midstream wants to run a 16-inch pipeline to a natural gas well that is planned on the western edge of the Tandy Hills Nature Center, just south of Interstate 30. The route would require easements, or right of way, beneath the front yards of... [read full story]