CLINT, Texas -- Wednesday night a state-mandated public meeting was held to discuss the 28-mile proposed gasoline pipeline that would connect U.S. and Mexico. It was standing room only at the meeting Wednesday night. Most of the people there said the gas line in their back yards poses a danger to their land and water.

Jim Ivey’s family owns a pecan farm off of Alemeda in Clint. Their farm falls along the 28-mile stretch the pipeline will be if the U.S state department approves the permit. Ivey told KFOX the pipeline is a move in the wrong direction. “You are not going to be able to build anything commercial on top of the pipelines. The damage is of a permanent nature,” he said. But Ivey thinks the damage does not end on his farm he said if anything were to happen to the pipes carrying the gas, it could contaminate water supplies to the entire region. Darryn Tollefson the vice president of PMI, the company that wants to bring in the pipes, did not want to talk to us on camera. Off camera he said water contamination is not an issue, citing environmental studies the PMI conducted. Ivey thinks those studies were skewed, saying, “They didn’t take any pictures of the subdivision or anything like that. They tried to make it as much in their favor as they could get.” He went on to say, “When you have a pipeline that is 28 miles long and it goes right out by your front door and you are sitting in your home, it is with you 24 hours. ”Ivey told KOFX he has tried to approach PMI with alternatives areas for the pipeline but they were not willing to listen. The U.S. State Department will have a decision on whether or not to grant PMI the permit by July.