Weymouth: Emergency Shutdown at Compressor Station One Day Before Scheduled Start

WATD Radio

After recently receiving final approval by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, or FERC, Enbridge was scheduled to put the Weymouth Compressor Station into service Thursday, but on Wednesday there was an emergency shutdown, due to what they called a blowout.

Congressman Steve Lynch says he was told that it was a large enough accumulation of natural gas inside the facility, that it was a threat to the facility itself.

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