Gas pipeline explosions bring new US safety proposal

Gas pipeline explosions bring new US safety proposal 

By Matthew Brown, The Associated Press (Mar 17, 2016) – “But Carl Weimer with the Bellingham, Washington-based Pipeline Safety Trust said no requirement for automatic shut-off valves was a glaring shortcoming. ‘We saw in San Bruno, when someone has to jump in a truck and drive through rush-hour traffic to manually shut off a valve, how much longer that left that blowtorch to blow into that neighborhood,’ he said.”