Lafayette council weighs deal with PG&E to remove 200 trees for gas pipe access

The Lafayette City Council on Monday will decide whether to spend $50,000 to hire experts to assess how many trees PG&E needs to cut down to access its own gas lines running through the city.

In 2014, PG&E started the Pipeline Pathways project, which entailed removing trees adjacent to its gas transmission pipelines, so first responders could have easier access to potential problems and crews could have better access to pipelines for inspections.