Ruby Pipeline: Piecemeal EIS ignores impacts; Denies public a voice

Sierra Club Toiyabe Chapter Report

The proposed Ruby Gas Pipeline would cross spectacular 12 Mile Creek Canyon on the Nevada-Oregon Border.

It would cut up to a 192 foot swath across northern Nevada from Utah to Oregon leaving a permanent scar (and road) over hundreds of miles of prime sage grouse habitat.

No utility corridor or road now exists over the vast majority of the route in Nevada where Ruby wants to go. The draft EIS, which studied only Ruby's selected route in detail, should be redone to study less environmentally damaging routes - including the West Wide Energy Corridors recently identified in a west-wide EIS.

The Sierra Club is not necessarily opposed to building a gas pipeline but wants several alternatives studied in detail including ones which would follow existing road, rail, power and gas utility corridors.