Old pipelines become new flashpoints for U.S., Canada environmental clashes
by Lauren Gardner, Politico (May 5, 2021) – “About 43 percent of hazardous liquids pipelines in the U.S. are more than 50 years old, and federal decommissioning rules are vague and don’t require much of the operators, said Bill Caram, executive director of the Pipeline Safety Trust, an advocacy group formed after a fatal pipeline explosion in Washington state in 1999.”
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