In receipt of a local congresswoman’s letter with 14 specific suggestions related to natural gas pipeline safety, California regulators sat through a four-hour public hearing Tuesday night listening to residents recall in terrifying detail their experiences last Sept. 9 when a Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) gas transmission pipeline erupted in an explosion and fire that killed eight people and devastated a quiet residential neighborhood in San Bruno, CA, south of San Francisco.
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Capitol Hill Joins in Aftershocks of PG&E Pipeline Blast
While a California congresswoman from the San Bruno, CA, area was proposing legislation addressing safety and transparency for natural gas transmission pipelines, U.S. senators representing the state last Tuesday speculated that the natural gas pipeline explosion last month would have been far less of a disaster if the Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) line had automatic shutoff valves.
October 4, 2010