Executives of the railroads, which until then shipped out all Powder River Basin coal, were not enthusiastic. ETSI was a joint venture of Bechtel, Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb, Kansas-Nebraska Natural Gas Co., United Energy Resources and Atlantic Richfield. Frank Odasz, who was ETSI’s chief representative and lobbyist in the Rocky Mountain region for the project, explained Burlington Northern Railroad was initially a minor investor. “I think they did it just to spy on us,” he said.
A copy of law documents from litigation between ETSI and Union Pacific Railroad.
This is a link to the environmental impact study by ETSI in 1981. The coal slurry pipeline project. https://archive.org/details/finalenvironmentim01unit
What happened to ETSI? http://www.wrlj.com/about-us-2/history/
Find out here: http://www.wrlj.com/ They just transport water!
Energy Transfer Partners, L.P wants to take up what ETSI left behind; the fight to run pipelines through land that does not belong to them. http://www.energytransfer.com/ownership_overview.aspx