ome Counties tting on oil
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)W MANY people in
impshire, Surrey and Kent will ver know that oil flows only -ee feet beneath them? ercising a "skill akin to ilking a slack wire in a gale," Hugh Popham says in Esso lgazine, Esso is building a 72le pipeline from the lightfully named Cuckoo's rner, near Alton, to Purfleet, Gatwick.
Cuckoors Corner it forms a iction with the line from ovley to Heathrow airport and pur will run into Gatwick port. Including the National 1st and Nature Conservancy uncil, 250 landowners and .3upiers have had to be intified and satisfied in an .ircise in supreme tact.
"he company's principle is "to pect the past, placate the isent and preserve for the Lire". When the long, thin scar by the pipeline has healed, only evidence of its stence will be a series of cmspicuous marker posts.