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Home›News›Construction company fined for near-gas pipeline dig

Construction company fined for near-gas pipeline dig

By San Williams
June 28, 2023
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A construction company has been fined after it ignored safety requirements to avoid digging within three metres of a gas transmission pipeline in Frankston South.

Scott Civil Construction was found guilty and fined $1,700 under the Gas Safety Act 1997 in the Frankston Magistrates’ Court on Thursday, 22 June after an Energy Safe Victoria investigation resulted in a prosecution against a construction company.

“The integrity of our gas pipeline network needs to be protected for the safety of the community and the gas supply,” Energy Safe chief executive officer Leanne Hughson says.

“It’s disappointing and concerning this company chose to ignore clear advice about excavating around the gas pipeline network.”

The construction company had been excavating and installing NBN cabling at a property near the Moorooduc Highway in September 2020 without a permit and carried out the works despite receiving a direction from Before You Dig Australia that a permit needed to be issued by the gas company before the work started.

A pipeline patroller saw the work being carried out and reported the activity to Energy Safe Victoria. No contact was made with the pipeline.

Transmission pipelines carry gas at high pressure to the gas supply network. They are patrolled by gas companies and operators to ensure unauthorised work does not occur. Making contact and damaging a gas transmission pipeline poses serious safety risks to the community and the gas network. Consequences range from compromising the community’s gas supply to gas leaks and in worse-case scenarios, explosions.

A gas company that owns or operates a gas transmission pipeline must authorise excavating or boring or opening any ground within three metres of a transmission pipeline.

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