5. Evidence

5.1. Wild Goose

Wild Goose presented five witnesses to explain its proposed condemnation. The Chief Operating Officer of Niska Gas Storage, the parent company of Wild Goose, testified that Wild Goose needs to install a loop pipeline to enable it to reach the 29 Bcf in storage previously authorized by this Commission. Safely locating the loop pipeline and the existing pipeline require adjustments to the existing easement boundaries. The total size of the area subject to the easement will increase by 0.11 acre to accommodate directional boring necessary to place the pipeline under a canal on the property. The principal planner for environmental review of the expansion project before the Commission testified that the Commission environmental review included the specific impact of the pipeline loop on aesthetics, agriculture, air quality, biological resources, cultural resources, geology/soils, hazards/hazardous materials, hydrology, land use and planning, noise, population/housing, public services/socioeconomics, recreation, transportation and traffic, and utilities. The witness explained that the EIR determined that the pipeline loop would not create any impacts that could not be mitigated to a less than significant level, and the Commission certified the EIR in D.02-07-036.

Wild Goose also presented extensive testimony regarding a scrivener's error in the original recorded easement, which has been corrected by order of the Butte County Superior Court, as noted below. This matter has been resolved in the Superior Court and is not an issue before the Commission.

5.2. Roseville Land Development Corporation

Roseville Land presented no witnesses.