Over 3,000 Leaks Found in Study of Boston's Natural Gas Pipelines
The
city’s aging natural-gas pipeline system is to blame, according to a
new study by researchers at Boston and Duke Universities. Their findings
appear this week in the journal Environmental Pollution.The new study
comes in the wake of devastating fires fueled by natural gas during
Hurricane Sandy. Potential damage to gas pipeline pressure regulators,
caused by flooding in Hurricane Sandy, has raised ongoing safety
concerns in New York and New Jersey. “While our study was not intended
to assess explosion risks, we came across…Read more...http://oilprice.com/Energy/Natural-Gas/Over-3000-Leaks-Found-in-Study-of-Bostons-Natural-Gas-Pipelines.html
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