Fourth shutdown at the compressor station

Yup, Campers, yet another shut down. This time with no explanation other than "force majeure."

WBUR covered this story, you can read more here — Weymouth Compressor Shuts Down Again — For Fourth Time In Less Than A Year

Excerpt: “The Weymouth Natural Gas Compressor Station is shut down for the fourth time since it began operating last year.

A spokesperson for Enbridge, the company that owns and operates the compressor, said in a statement that the company is "performing maintenance work" and anticipates "safely returning the compressor station to service shortly." He said the maintenance work was "on a piece of equipment which helps reduce compressor unit emissions", but he did not say whether it was planned in advance.

On Thursday night, Enbridge posted a notice that the compressor station had "experienced an outage" and in a separate notice declared a "force majeure." Loosely translated as an "act of God," a force majeure usually means the shutdown occurred for reasons out of the company's control.

"It is standard practice to declare a Force Majeure when a compressor station becomes unavailable for service," the spokesperson said in an email. "In this case, we identified maintenance work to be performed and notified our customers that the Weymouth Compressor Station would be unavailable while the work was performed."

However, Katy Eiseman, a lawyer and president of the advocacy group The Pipe Line Awareness Network for the Northeast says "routine maintenance is not what I think of as a justifiable reason to claim force majeure," though she says she'd have to review Enbridge's customer contracts to be sure.” (WBUR)