Better protection needed for national infrastructure, pipeline inquiry told

Better protection needed for national infrastructure, pipeline inquiry told
Gavin Evans
By Gavin Evans June 4 (BusinessDesk) - The lack of sanctions for people damaging national infrastructure and covering it up needs to be addressed, Refining NZ chief executive Mike Fuge says. The company operates the Marsden Point oil refinery and its contractors use a combination of walking inspections, drive-bys, helicopter fly-overs and inspections by fixed-wing aircraft to monitor potential threats – from land movements, excavation and construction - to its fuel pipeline to Auckland. Fuge told an inquiry into the pipeline failure in...

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