The Sabal Trail pipeline doesn't run through The Villages. It also isn't a new project: the map you're looking at is from an old article. Despite years of protests, the pipeline was finished and began carrying natural gas in 2017.
In Sumter County it mostly follows an existing Duke Energy power-line corridor, crossing I-75, State Road 44 and the Florida Turnpike on its way toward Lake County southeast of Center Hill. A 2017 report put The Villages about six miles northeast of where the pipeline crosses I-75, just north of SR 44 near Wildwood. So it passes to the southwest of The Villages, not through it.
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