"Trust me bro, this pipeline won't leak or explode. Please, bro, just one more pipeline. One more pipeline and we'll be great again I promise"
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Transport and pipeline Maintenance is the reason natural gas often ends up being worse for the environment than coal and oil. Sure methane burns much cleaners but if every container transporting methane leaks billions of cubic meters leak every year it kinda loses its edge.
Every damn time. Is it really that hard to keep up maintenance. For fucks sake.
The problem is, there is no way to know when or where a leak will start. So maintenance just means looking for existing problems and fixing them. But it is often too late by then.
I mean, there are scanners and sonar and Time domain reflectometers that, if backed by intelligent and empowered staff, can prevent those things from happening.
That being said, the people that are in charge of these are penny-pinching skin-flint scumbags, therefore they will not spend the money needed to make sure it's safe.
Which is why we were protesting it in the first place, because we knew this shit would happen.