Natural Gas Line Ruptures in Landslide, Public at Risk

by Duane Nichols on July 3, 2017

Gas production and burning has long term effects on Earth -- Methane leakage and carbon dioxide!

Gas line ruptured at Finleyville Airport south of Pittsburgh

From an Article by Scott Beveredge, Washington PA Observer-Reporter, June 30, 2017

FINLEYVILLE – A landslide ruptured a natural gas pipeline Thursday night at Finleyville Airport, a utility that serves customers as far away as Burgettstown and Beaver County.

Peoples Gas was able to detour natural gas from other service areas to continue serving most of its customers in the region until repairs were completed and the 12-inch line was re-pressurized about 7 a.m. Friday, company spokesman Barry Kukovich said.

“They got in there and could hear the ground moving in the darkness,” Kukovich said. “A large section of earth slid laterally. It’s a major gas line.”

Service was temporarily disrupted to about 40 houses in the Stonebridge Drive area off Route 88, close to the airport on Airport Road in Union Township, he said.

A Union Electric Steel operation in the region also was asked to curtail its natural gas draw while the repairs were being made, Kukovich said. There were no reports of disruption of traffic to and from the privately owned airport. It was not immediately known what caused the landslide.

The rupture was reported at 10:30 p.m. Thursday. Township Supervisor Larry Spahr said the rupture happened at the end of the airport runway.

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Anti-Pipeline Hikers Celebrate End of Route with Church Service

From WVIR (NBC), News 29, Charlottesville, Virginia, July 2, 2017

BUCKINGHAM COUNTY, Va. (WVIR) – Anti-pipeline walkers of “Walk the Line” in Buckingham County, Virginia, show up in church.

Sunday, anti-pipeline hikers reached the end of the line on their two-week trek following the path of the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline across the Shenandoah Valley and central Virginia.

The hikers celebrated the completion of their travels by joining supporters for a special Sunday service at Union Hill Baptist Church in Buckingham County.

>>> Kirk A Bowers, PE, Virginia Chapter, Sierra Club,

Pipelines Program Coordinator, 106 George Rogers Road,

Charlottesville, VA 22911

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