For years, Peoples Gas has been working to replace old and outdated pipes across Chicago.
While costs have gone up and deadlines have been pushed back in the time since, the project remains far from completion.Earlier this year, the Illinois Commerce Commission, or ICC, ordered an investigation of Peoples Gas. Now, brand new testimony is revealing concerns about costs and safety associated with the “System Modernization Program," or SMP. It began in 2011 to replace the city’s aging iron gas pipes.
The purpose is to prevent a disaster, such as the 1992 Peoples Gas line explosion that killed four people in Chicago's River West neighborhood. Yet 13 years after the ICC ordered the project, work is far from over. Abe Scarr is a program director of the Illinois Public Interest Research Group, or PIRG. The group is one of the entities the ICC assigned to assess the gas line replacement project. PIRG filed testimony of its findings last week, and Scarr spoke with NBC 5 Responds about the findings.
“My biggest concern is that PGL’s SMP has not resulted in the prioritization of safety and, thus, does not lead to the most practical, cost-effective, and expedient retirement of unsafe leak prone pipe.”has been needed for safety, reliability, and to protect the environment. Leaks are being eliminated.
We’re always looking for ways to do this critical work as efficiently as possible, and we’ve provided state regulators with potential alternatives to consider, including looking at new ways to prioritize and target infrastructure at greatest risk, and prioritizing work in parts of the city most economically vulnerable.”“The position of the ICC’s Safety Staff reflects their ongoing support for continuing the critical work of removing rapidly corroding pipes that date as far back as the 1800’s.
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