From the PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW:
Pipeline safety and regulation will be the top priority for Republican legislators in Harrisburg as they push for new shale drilling laws this fall, two party leaders said on Thursday.
The issue is “ripe for resolution” because bills putting the state Public Utility Commission in charge of safety oversight have passed the House and Senate, said Sen. Dominic Pileggi, R-Delaware County, the majority leader…
The problem is that thousands of miles of gathering lines are being laid all across the state to connect new shale gas wells to the existing pipeline network, but it isn’t clear who has jurisdiction to inspect them. After several deadly gas pipeline explosions rocked the nation and eastern Pennsylvania, the governor’s Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission in July recommended that the PUC receive oversight powers for intrastate gathering lines…
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