In the petroleum industry regulations are to be ignored and pay offs for deaths is part of the profit margin.

In the case of this pipeline, it probably should not have been built, no different than the Keystone (click here). Not all land is the same and many times the land is protecting a very valuable water source, UNDERGROUND, where it is less likely to evaporate due to the climate crisis. But, to protect people and water, the land has to be protected first!

February 26, 2020
By Anya Litvak

The same steep (click here) and loamy hillside that tumbled in a landslide causing a natural gas pipeline to burst open and ignite in Beaver County on Sept. 10 has proven difficult to stabilize, even temporarily....

The U.S. Department of Justice (click here) has launched a criminal investigation into the 2018 natural gas pipeline explosion in Beaver County, adding to a growing list of state and federal probes into Energy Transfer’s pipeline projects in Pennsylvania.

The investigation has been going on since at least November, according to a disclosure in the Texas-based pipeline company’s financial filings. Energy Transfer said the U.S. attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania “issued a federal grand jury subpoena for documents relevant to the incident,” which is also being examined by the Pennsylvania attorney general’s office.

“The scope of these investigations is not further known at this time,” Energy Transfer wrote in its annual report earlier this month.

Energy Transfer disclosed Attorney General Josh Shapiro’s investigation into the Revolution pipeline’s failure in a financial filing in August 2019....

I don't make the statement about a petroleum's bottom line out of hubris or fiction, the FACTS, both with the petroleum industry (continually subsidized by the US Congress) and the coal mining industry (continually regulated by the government) adding regulatory fines and lawsuits of ill health and deaths as an operating expense.

Let's get this right. These companies don't care about their customers. They dispatch for complaints, BUT, WHEN IT COMES TO THE IMPORTANT LIFE SAVING STUFF LIKE COMPLIANCE WITH REGULATIONS, THEY DON'T CARE.\

Both of these companies are in violation and liability.

February 26, 2020

The 2018 Columbia (click here) Gas disaster in the Merrimack Valley displaced thousands of people and damaged homes such as this one on Jefferson Street in Lawrence.

Boston - The United States Attorney's Office (click here) has announced federal charges against Columbia Gas of Massachusetts, following the deadly gas explosions in the Merrimack Valley in 2018. The company has "agreed to plead guilty to violating the Pipeline Safety Act."

The FBI's Boston Office said the charges come after a joint investigation by the FBI and the U.S. Department of Transportation Office of the Inspector General. The U.S. Attorney's Office held a press conference at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Moakley Federal Courthouse in Boston.

Officials said Columbia Gas is "criminally" and "financially accountable" for the 2018 explosions in the Merrimack Valley, which took the life of 18-year-old Leonel Rondon, and damaged dozens of homes and buildings.

"Under the terms of the plea agreement filed in court today, first Columbia Gas will pay a $53 million fine... by far the largest criminal fine ever imposed by the Pipeline Safety Act," said U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling. "Until Columbia Gas is sold, an independent monitor... will monitor the company's activities... and report to the government on a monthly basis."

Columbia Gas is also to be sold by its parent company NiSource Inc., which will have to stop doing business in the state, and Columbia Gas will be on probation for three years....