Spectra Energy refuses to say much about
a compressor station leak in Maine, much like the one in Pennsylvania
in March 2013.
Spectra’s Susan Waller did offer that in a real emergency
everyone would have been evacuated.
Who wants that next to the five compressor stations
Spectra proposes along the Sabal Trail Transmission pipeline
it wants to gouge through Alabama, Georgia, and Florida?
Abigail Curtis wrote for Bangor Daily News 15 January 2014,
‘The most terrifying experience’: Residents question safety in wake of malfunction at Searsmont natural gas pipeline station,
First came the noise late New Year’s Eve at the Searsmont natural
gas pipeline compressor station, so loud that it caused nearby homes
to shake and some residents, frightened by the jet-engine-like roar,
to pack up their cars and flee for the night.
Then came the questions, as some members of the normally quiet rural
community wondered how safe — or dangerous — it is to
live so close to the Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline facility. The
station was shut down for Continue reading “The most terrifying experience”: Spectra blows another compressor station →