CONROE, Texas – A Montgomery County judge has blocked plans for a natural gas compressor station from being built next door to the family-run furniture store Bartholet Home Furnishings in Conroe.

On Monday, Judge Vincenzo J. Santini granted a temporary injunction in favor of Bartholet.

Court filings show the company Blackfin Pipeline LLC intended to build a massive four-compressor station and a 48-inch pipeline directly behind the Bartholets’ showroom on I-45 South.

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At a hearing, pipeline experts testified the compressors would run at about 100 decibels, as loud as a siren, on a constant basis. Routine “blowdowns,” used to relieve pressure in the line, would crea

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