TER General Board
Back in '94, a natural gas pipline exploded in central NJ...I was working late night less than a mile away...the explosion killed seventeen people in a garden appt. complex, and injured many more...from my vantage point (?!?), a flash of light, then what felt like a truck colliding with my building. When I went outside with a co-worker, a pillar of fire reached into the sky...like something out of a Cecil B. DeMille epic.. 
LE blocked off the entrance/exits to the GSP for more than three hours, ubtil the gas co. turned off the valves that fed the fire....
Years later, when a gas company proposed building a similar pipeline near two local schools, I attended the meeting, and told a local commissioner what I had seen. I was invited onto the stage, and told them what had happened years earlier. Our local Congressman, already against the prososal, thanked me in person for stating my position, and used his position to scuttle the project. Even though I am a Libertarian, and usually oppose the Dem party, in this case, they were right! I have voted for this Congressman in every election since is then...
Just my three pennies. Local gas prices will not go up as a result of this. Of more importance...peak oil global production has been reached...not a good thing...
CD