A business development manager for the Alpharetta-based Colonial Pipeline Company told a Georgia legislative committee Thursday it continues to consider expansion following two incidents that spilled gas in a rural parts of Alabama.
“Demand for our services exceed supply. We’ve been full for going on 5 years now. We’re constantly looking at ways to expand.” said Don Gardner. “Shippers certainly want us to and we try to.”
Following the spills, and subsequent shutdowns of the pipelines, gas prices jumped around the South. The Colonial estimates its line from Houston to New Jersey deliveries 40 percent of the East Coast’s supply.
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