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repair and restart the line within a few days.
An unspecifi ed equipment failure at the
Witt booster station near Danville was blamed
for the leak, which was detected during
a routine station check in early January.
Alpharetta, Georgia-based Colonial said the
leak appeared to be contained to the property
but did not say how much had spilled.
The 5,500-mile Colonial Pipeline system,
which was famously shut down after a
ransomware attack in May 2021, supplies
roughly half the fuel consumed on the East
Coast. The total system transports about
885,000 bpd of product a day, while the
line that was shut down for repair in January
carries about 100 million gallons.
The rest of the system continued to operate
normally during the repairs, spokesperson
David Conti said.
Canada's Coastal GasLink
Pipeline Construction
Nears Completion
Pipeline operator TC Energy's Coastal GasLink
pipeline project is more than 80 percent
completed overall, and more than 77 percent
of the construction is fi nished, according to
the company's year-end construction update.
The $11.2 billion pipeline project, which will
feed natural gas to one of the biggest LNG
projects in Canada's history, remains on track
to start up later this year.
First announced in 2018, the 48-inch,
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416-mile pipeline will transport natural gas
to the Shell PLC-led LNG Canada export
facility on the west coast of British Columbia.
The pipeline will be capable of moving
2.1 Bcf/d of natural gas with the potential
for delivery of up to 5 Bcf/d.
" To date, our team has installed nearly
490 km (304 miles) of pipe across the
670-kilometer route, and steady progress is
made each day, " TC Energy said. " This year,
we also safely and successfully completed
9 out of 10 major watercourse crossings. "
More than 6,000 people have worked
along the pipeline route.
Louisiana Lawmakers
Award $357 Million
in Sewer, Water Projects
Louisiana lawmakers approved $356.7 million
for 87 sewer and water upgrades.
Some of the most expensive projects
include fi xes to the Calcasieu Parish water
system ($15 million), the St. Tammany Parish
water ($14.1 million) and sewer ($13.9 million)
systems, and Shongaloo water system in
Webster Parish ($10.4 million).
The projects were selected based on a
scoring system that considered the severity
of the need and durability of the proposed fi x.
Water and sewer systems could also boost
their chances of getting money if they found
additional funding for the work or off ered to
combine their project with others.
The spending comes on top of the $300
million already allocated to sewer and water
fi xes in the prior budget cycle. Gov. John Bel
Edwards and lawmakers decided to devote a
total of $750 million in federal pandemic relief
funding to water and sewer programs. UI
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