Jay Inslee: “colleagues last June in Bellingham, Washington, an oil and gas pipeline exploded and the ensuing fireball killed three…”

“colleagues last June in Bellingham, Washington, an oil and gas pipeline exploded and the ensuing fireball killed three young men; that pipeline company now seeks to reopen that pipeline. It is a 16-inch pipeline that runs right through the heart of East King County in my district without properly testing this line. They seek to reopen this line which suffered not only this failure that killed three people, but suffered a subsequent failure disclosed under water pressure testing. This company seeks to reopen this line without doing that same water pressure testing and exposing my constituents to that risk; that is wrong. This amendment would simply require that company to do what it ought to do as a good neighbor and hydrostatically test this line, a common sense, well-recognized test that will prevent a recurrence of the type of tragedy that we experienced.”