I once had a pipeline project held up by a town that would not grant right of way. This was an expansion project, so we had an existing ROW, but we needed a Variance for construction.

They said no to any concessions we were willing to make, so I cooked up a plan that was presented to them whereby we would build a tank at one end of town and a tank at the other and truck the additional oil across the city. This would involve 18,000 tanker truck trips a day. Or they could let us expand a line that had been in service for over 50 years.

There was no doubt we could come up with the trucks and tankers, so they granted us our Variance. This was about 20 years ago and so far there has not been any problem with the line where it goes through their city.

They were presented with a choice and they chose the lesser of two evils. I wonder if Lucas is just doing the same?