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Dawson County commissioners Tuesday discussed their options in toughening their pipeline policy and getting an operator to remove a water pipeline that was suppose to be temporary from county right-of-ways.The county allows companies to install temporary water lines to conduct fracking, a process oil companies use to extract gas and petroleum from the earth’s bedrock.Commissioners said the installer, whose company wasn’t named, had been told again and again to remove pipelines along County Road R, 34 and 35. The company not only hasn’t complied, but continued laying more pipelines.Commissioners discussed ways to ensure a similar situation doesn’t happen again.“We need ...

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Lamesa Press-Reporter

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Lamesa, TX 79331
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