Profits to distribute to officers and shareholders.  No other value.  It is built into the corporate concept and the legal structure.  Makes no difference how it affects other people, sickness, poverty, death (mostly over seas) decline of the nation that provides the law that governs it, the world catching on fire, nothing.

Providing cheaper goods is often cited as the benefit, but it is only the method.  They will switch to other products, add other lines to get more of an increase in profits.

The fines you mentioned in your article.. $100,000 and $50,000, this is peanuts to the big Pipeline Gas/Oil Companies, it’s all figured in their cost,  when the construction budget was established. 
 
What is needed is a life time fine for violation of Environmental Issues, as long as the pipeline is in place, they pay the State a fee…..unlike a Fixed Bond only during the construction phase.   The only thing these corporations understand is big $$$$$$…you gotta hit their profit center and make it hurt !!!
 
Your pipeline will be just like the Keystone XL Pipeline, it will eventually be constructed, big Corporate Lawyers will wait you out, let the local media news die down, then they will slip in and before you even know it….the pipeline will be in the process of being completed.

Sad to say but …..All the bitching will not stop your pipeline….It will be built !!!
 
I’ve got a cross country multiple pipeline 1/2 mile behind my house, I did not like it either..but it’s now there.
 
Once Obama is out of office…the Keystone will once again be in the news and it will be approved.
 
Gary Ogden, Smithfield, Ohio