Columbia Gas sentenced for Merrimack Valley explosions

This first appeared on MassLive.com.

Columbia Gas of Massachusetts was sentenced Tuesday in connection with the gas explosions in the Merrimack Valley region that killed one person, injured many others and damaged homes and businesses.

The gas company was ordered to pay a criminal fine of just over $53 million — representing twice the amount of what it earned in profits between 2015 and 2018 from a pipeline infrastructure program called the Gas System Enhancement Plan, the U.S. Attorney’s Office…

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