From PHILLY.COM:
Houses trembled a half mile away when a natural gas explosion rattled a compressor station near Springville, a hotbed of Marcellus Shale development in northern Pennsylvania…
The PUC shut down its examination last week after determining the station was in a rural area – and thus outside its regulatory reach….
An Inquirer series last year found that this gap [in regulations], coupled with a slow response from Pennsylvania, meant that hundreds of miles of high-pressure pipelines had been built with no safety oversight. Up to 25,000 miles could be built, experts say…
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