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Friday, November 23, 2012

Over 3,000 Leaks Found in Study of Boston's Natural Gas Pipelines

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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