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March 2, 2011

Would valves have saved lives after pipeline blast?

By JOAN LOWY
Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Officials for a California gas company involved in a deadly pipeline accident last September acknowledged Tuesday that four years before the accident they rejected installing valves that could have automatically shut off or remotely controlled the flow of gas.

Pacific Gas and Electric Company employees were questioned at a National Transportation Safety Board hearing about a company 2006 memo that said installing the valves would have “little or no effect on increasing human safety or protecting properties.”


 
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