Not Wanting to Walk the Line, Iroquois Seeks Change on Pipeline ROW Inspections

摘要

Vowing to keep eyes wide open all the time, as Johnny Cash wrote in the lyrics for “I Walk the Line,” Iroquois Gas Transmission L.P. asked FERC to end its requirement to annually walk the pipeline right of way (ROW). The commitment to annually walk the pipeline route is nearly 30 years old and has been superseded by other inspection methods and technologies that provide similar information cheaper and with less planning, Iroquois said. Physically walking the 414-mile ROW from the U.S.-Canada border in Waddington, New York, down New York state, through western Connecticut and ending at New York City is time consuming and needs to start this winter if it is to be carried out.