Huge fires in Lawrence MA area

[snoopy7548]

I sincerely hope Columbia Gas is sued into oblivion and all upper-management goes straight to jail for manslaughter. Off with their heads. They were involved in previous gas explosions...

https://www.boston25news.com/news/2...ey-had-previous-explosion-incidents/833644444

 

[interchange]

This is some kind of major equipment failure by the gas provider. The delivery pressure at the home meters/ pressure regulators must be way too high, causing some of the pressure regulators to fail. When that happens more failure occurs in the whole household system.

The random distribution of the fires confirms that-

https://twitter.com/MassStatePolice/status/1040366227678486528/photo/1

Yeah...I am no expert in this kind of thing, but I have enough engineering background to know that this is very much preventable with structural solutions. Maybe I'll be proven wrong, but I can't see this being physically possible without gross negligence somewhere.

 

[MomentsofSanity]

I sincerely hope Columbia Gas is sued into oblivion and all upper-management goes straight to jail for manslaughter. Off with their heads. They were involved in previous gas explosions...

https://www.boston25news.com/news/2...ey-had-previous-explosion-incidents/833644444

Hey now. Corporations aren't people. They can't go to jail.....

 

[Jhhnn]

Yeah...I am no expert in this kind of thing, but I have enough engineering background to know that this is very much preventable with structural solutions. Maybe I'll be proven wrong, but I can't see this being physically possible without gross negligence somewhere.

It's really impossible to say at this point. Human error may well have been involved but that doesn't necessarily mean gross negligence. Some sort of equipment failure seems likely. Industry experience & standards render most of the equipment pretty much dummy proof. They've been at this for a very long while & try to engineer in safety at every level. All things considered the industry record is quite good.

Nobody wants this kind of thing & they'll do their best to avoid it.

 

[cytg111]

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/04/...ne-cyberattack.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur

The Russians are coming! The Russians are coming!

FOUND THE RUSSIAN ACTOR!

 

[Fanatical Meat]

The Governor just put Eversource in charge of the repair work. He pretty much said Columbia Gas is incompetent and cannot be trusted.

No link heard it on the radio.

 

[Thump553]

The Governor just put Eversource in charge of the repair work. He pretty much said Columbia Gas is incompetent and cannot be trusted.

No link heard it on the radio.

As an Eversource customer I see that that as a pretty damning swipe at Columbia Gas.

 

[ch33zw1z]

And the verdict is in

Columbia Gas to Be Sold, Pay $53M Fine for 2018 Merrimack Valley Gas Explosions

Columbia Gas, the utility behind the deadly 2018 Merrimack Valley gas explosions, will pay a $53 million fine and be sold by its parent company, NiSource, after agreeing to plead guilty in connection with the disaster, authorities announced Wednesday. U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling said in a press...

www.nbcboston.com

Pay 53m fines, and sell the mass division to another vendor, GTFO of our state.

 

[dawp]

And the verdict is in

Columbia Gas to Be Sold, Pay $53M Fine for 2018 Merrimack Valley Gas Explosions

Columbia Gas, the utility behind the deadly 2018 Merrimack Valley gas explosions, will pay a $53 million fine and be sold by its parent company, NiSource, after agreeing to plead guilty in connection with the disaster, authorities announced Wednesday. U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling said in a press...

www.nbcboston.com

Pay 53m fines, and sell the mass division to another vendor, GTFO of our state.

surprised they admitted fault, pleading guilty is unusual in corporate malfeasance,

 

[ch33zw1z]

surprised they admitted fault, pleading guilty is unusual in corporate malfeasance,

Guess they didn't shred paperwork and purge emails fast enough.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

*****I think I heard the State Prosecutor's were looking at jail time for some board members and executive.
kind of funny how one comes to a quick settlement once jail time is put on the table.

 

[hal2kilo]

Purely anecdotal, but I have a buddy who works for Puget Sound Energy. They used to just be an electric power company, but they bought the largest gas supplier company several years back. Says gas technology is in the stone age as far a monitoring for problems compared to electric power. Won't have it in his house. I told him he sounded like my grandmother (gas to her was coal gas and she wouldn't have natural gas in the house either).