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Some Climate-Change-Minded People In Somerville Pushing For Repairing — Not Replacing — Natural Gas Pipes

Some Climate-Change-Minded People In Somerville Pushing For Repairing — Not Replacing — Natural Gas Pipes

Some Somerville residents and city officials want utility companies to stop replacing natural gas pipes and repair them instead, in hopes of eventually getting rid of them altogether. The Somerville Public Utilities and Public Works Committee, a subcommittee of the Somerville City Council, heard a presentation this week from an anti-climate-change activist, who argued for encouraging what he called "non-gas-pipeline alternatives" (at 11:30 of the video of the meeting).

Some Somerville residents and city officials want utility companies to stop replacing natural gas pipes and repair them instead, in hopes of eventually getting rid of them altogether. The Somerville Public Utilities and Public Works Committee, a subcommittee of the Somerville City Council, heard a presentation this week from an anti-climate-change activist, who argued for encouraging what he called "non-gas-pipeline alternatives" (at 11:30 of the video of the meeting).…