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Gas company crosses the line into West Roxbury
By adamg on Sat, 10/03/2015 - 2:14pm
Workers for Algonquin Gas Transmission were busy today digging a trench up Washington Street just past the Dedham line so they can lay down a high-pressure natural-gas pipeline that will end at a new transfer station at Grove and Centre Streets, across from the West Roxbury quarry.
A judge dismissed the city's challenges to the pipeline three weeks ago. At a rally last weekend, residents vowed civil disobedience to stop the pipeline.
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Wall Street Journal Article
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The Gas Company has gone to far!
Forget about the people of West Roxbury from the picture above it appears they haven't hired police details which means they will be shut down by Monday.
No, they had details
You can't see them in the photo, but they were there - Boston cops on the Boston side and Dedham cops on the Dedham side (remember when they they paved the Dedham side of Washington a few years back and it was one of the first road projects in the state with civilian flaggers?)
Pipeline Continues to Temple Street
It doesn't end at the Transfer Station - it continues at a lower, high pressure, 1/2 of the 740psi to Temple Street where it will tie in to the National Grid. The pipe doubles in size from 16 to 24 inches
It sickens me to see them ripping up my streets....
.... knowing they are creating a pipeline of such high-pressure (750psi) that if - God Forbid, but certainly conceivable - some sort of unforeseen human error occurred, such as one of the 150 Mack trucks, filled to the brim with Quarry stone, lost control while it was entering or leaving and crashed into Spectra's proposed above-ground Metering and Regulating station....experts have testified that a blast zone of 30 blocks radius could be created.
Truly horrible to even imagine. As citizens of this country, who supposedly live in a democracy, represented by our elected officials who have said they are against this, we SHOULD NOT HAVE TO.