KALAMA — Officials at a Washington cemetery say they’ll challenge a federal decision approving a natural gas pipeline that could encroach on the cemetery.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved the 3.1-mile pipeline earlier this month. Williams Co.-backed Northwest Pipeline would build the pipeline to supply gas to a proposed methanol plant at the Port of Kalama.
FERC’s environmental review concluded that the construction could cut into a section of the parking lot at Mount Pleasant Cemetery but would have no long-term effects.
The three-person cemetery commission recently voted to hire a lawyer to appeal the FERC decision.
