Rural gas gathering pipelines kindle concerns about safety laws.

Rural gas gathering pipelines kindle concerns about safety laws. 

By Mike Wereschagin, TribLive (Dec 27, 2014) – “They’re just as dangerous as the big gas transmission lines’ that feed cities’ distribution networks, said Carl Weimer, executive director of the Pipeline Safety Trust, a Washington state-based nonprofit that advocates for pipeline safety rules…. ‘What we’re starting to see in places like Pennsylvania is, yeah, they’re classified as rural pipelines, but they’re still going past rural houses,’ the Pipeline Safety Trust’s Weimer said. ‘It’s not like Philadelphia or something, but where do you draw the line?’”