Michigan’s aging gas pipelines raise safety concerns 

Michigan’s aging gas pipelines raise safety concerns 

By Mike Martindale, The Detroit News (Dec 14, 2017) – “Weimer said pipeline operators have a duty to ‘continuously evaluate the risk of their pipelines and then maintain the pipeline in ways that mitigate that risk. Older pipelines have heightened risks for time-dependent issues such as corrosion, and also because they were installed before better materials and technologies were in place for things such as the latest high-carbon steel pipe, epoxy coatings and high-tech inline inspections, etc.,’ he said.”