Utility Dive: The Vermont pipeline in question is significantly different from the system in Massachusetts, but one issue ties them together: whether a licensed professional engineer approved the plans.
Massachusetts allows an exemption from requirements that a professional engineer approve public utility work — though the National Transportation Safety Board recommended eliminating the exemption when it investigated the Columbia Gas disaster. While Vermont has no such exemption, the lawyer for opponents of the Vermont Gas line says the utility did not have the proper approval.
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