11.   While the pipeline has yet to receive final U.S. approval, Willms said he was so confident that he plans to place orders for pipe by yearend.

12.   Without them, pipelines have to be shut down manually.

13.   But the Turkish pipeline would have to pass through the treacherous geopolitical terrain of Armenia, Georgia or Iran.

14.   Georgia has ports on the Black Sea, but any pipeline would have to cross through or near Abkhazia.

15.   However the Turkish pipeline would have to pass through Armenia, Georgia or Iran.

16.   If the archeological discoveries are put on the national list of monuments, the pipeline will have to go a different way altogether, Wiadomosci said.

17.   The local Sierra Club chairman, John Kaminsky, believes the pipeline will have no discernible effect on lake conditions.

18.   The pipeline has an estimated capacity of about a million barrels a day.

19.   They are not comforted by state officials and oil companies that say the roads and pipelines will have a minimal effect.

20.   To get to Turkey, the pipeline would have to pass through Armenia, Georgia or Iran.