PG&E on Monday is beginning to pressure test more than a mile of a gas transmission pipeline in Mountain View, a utility spokesman said.The section of pipeline that will be tested is 24 inches in diameter and runs between Shoreline Golf Links at 2940 N. Shoreline Blvd. and Crittendon Middle School at 1701 Rock St., PG&E spokesman Brian Swanson said.
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Nearly eight months after 38 homes were scorched off the San Bruno map, city officials have started the Crestmoor neighborhood’s home-rebuilding program by issuing the first permit. Last week, longtime resident Bob Hensel became the first person to receive a rebuilding permit from the city following the Sept. 9 PG&E natural-gas pipeline explosion that killed eight people and destroyed dozens of homes.
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The disdain fairly drips from the city of San Bruno’s response to PG&E’s request to make assumptions about the safety of its system, rather than test every natural-gas pipeline.“Eight people are now dead, many are severely injured and a neighborhood has been destroyed partly based on the fact that [PG&E’s] ‘assumptions’ were wrong,” the response reads.
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PG&E officials plan to join Rep. Jackie Speier, D-San Mateo, for a Town Hall meeting Wednesday in San Bruno to discuss long-term recovery efforts in the neighborhood where a gas pipeline exploded eight months ago.
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PG&E has quietly installed two remotely controlled shut-off valves for its natural-gas transmission lines at two stations in San Bruno, utility officials told The San Francisco Examiner.
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San Bruno residents will have a chance to tell regulators how California’s gas pipeline rules should be changed to prevent tragedies like the deadly explosion that rocked their town last September.
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Mayor Jim Ruane and Assemblyman Jerry Hill will join Glenview neighborhood residents for the opening of the San Bruno Resource and Recovery Center to serve those affected by the gas pipeline explosion on Sep. 9, 2010.The American Red Cross created the center, located at 458 San Mateo Ave. in downtown San Bruno, to provide ongoing and long-term support for the community, agency officials said.
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State regulators are threatening PG&E with fines of $1 million a day or more for what one official describes as an “inexcusable” refusal to come forward with information about its pipeline.
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Crews will immediately begin rigorously testing or replacing dozens of miles of pipeline under San Francisco and Peninsula towns because PG&E lacks documentation to prove it is safe.
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More than 250 miles of high-pressure gas pipelines throughout California will immediately be tested or replaced because PG&E lacks documentation to prove they are safe.On Sept. 9, a gas pipeline owned by Pacific Gas and Electric exploded in San Bruno, killing 8 people, injuring dozens more, and destroying much of a neighborhood in the San Francisco suburb.
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