Tennessee Gas, Contractor Resolve Violation - iBerkshires.com
BOSTON — Tennessee Gas and contractor Henkels & McCoy resolved claims of wetland and clean water violations during a pipeline expansion project in Sandisfield and Otis state forest. Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company LLC (Tennessee Gas) and its contractor, Henkels & McCoy (Henkels), Inc. have agreed to pay a total of $300,000 in penalties and payments to the Massachusetts Natural Resource Damages Trust to settle allegations that they violated environmental protection laws when their workers damaged a vernal pool and other protected wetland resources areas, degraded water quality in a cold water fishery, and discharged 15,000 gallons of contaminated pipeline test water directly onto the ground during construction of a natural gas pipeline through Sandisfield and Otis State Forest in 2017. "Tennessee Gas repeatedly assured the state and Sandisfield residents that water quality and wetlands would be protected during pipeline construction, but they failed to make that happen,...