On January 18, Anya Litvak of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported Energy Transfer LP, the owner of the company that built and operates the new Revolution natural gas pipeline that exploded in Beaver County in September, is not complying with an order to stabilize the site of the explosion.

The company blames the explosion on a landslide in the area, but so far the company has not been able to show DEP the site is stable enough to run heavy machinery on.

In  October, DEP inspections along the length of the pipeline running through Allegheny, Beaver, Butler and Washington counties in Pennsylvania found unreported landslides, soil flowing into streams and acid mine drainage where the pipeline cut through old reclaimed surface mines on the right-of-way.

On January 10, DEP wrote a letter to Energy Transfer LP saying, according to the Post-Gazette, the company has failed to stabilize the right-of-way and still has not submit acceptable plans for temporary and long-term step it plans to take to prevent damage to the pipeline.

The company did not comment for the article.

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A landslide was blamed as the cause of another explosion of a newly constructed TransCanada natural gas pipeline in West Virginia in July.

NewsClips:

Litvak: DEP Says Energy Transfer LP Not Complying With Order To Stabilized Beaver County Pipeline Explosion Site

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: DEP Says Energy Transfer LP Not Complying With Order To Stabilized Beaver County Pipeline Explosion Site

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[Posted: Jan. 18, 2019]

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