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PG&E had received OK to repair pipeline near San Bruno, but work was never done

PG&E had received OK to repair pipeline near San Bruno, but work was never done

State regulators in 2007 gave Pacific Gas and Electric Co. the go-ahead to spend $5 million of ratepayer money to replace a 62-year-old section of the same pipeline that exploded last week in San Bruno.

 

San Bruno fire drives push to require automatic shutoff valves for pipelines

State and congressional lawmakers moved Tuesday to impose new requirements for automatic or remote-controlled shutoff valves on pipelines after last week's San Bruno natural gas conflagration raged for nearly two hours before the fuel supply could be ...

 

Aging gas pipe at risk of explosion nationwide

Aging gas pipe at risk of explosion nationwide

The tragic explosion of a gas pipeline in a San Francisco suburb has shed light on a problem usually kept underground: Communities have expanded over pipes built decades earlier when no one lived there.

 

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