DENVER (AP) – Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper said Wednesday the state should have comprehensive maps of oil and gas pipelines to help prevent a repeat of a fatal house explosion blamed on an old, severed gas line.
Hickenlooper said that may require a new law, and the Legislature is unlikely to pass one this year because the session is almost over.
“But I don’t think it’s unreasonable for that to be public information,” he said.
Hickenlooper spoke a day after investigators announced that an April 17 explosion that killed two people was caused by odorless, unrefined gas leaking from the severed underground pipeline.
The line was believed to be abandoned but was still connected to a gas well with a valve turned to the open position, investigators said.