The PUC decided that pressurized carbon dioxide is a toxic or corrosive gas, therefore subject to the PUC’s existing regulatory authority.
Attorney Hudson Kingston, representing Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, also testified that legislators “were saying that the commission should be regulating things that can kill people or things that can leak acid into waterways, and in both respects, these pipelines meet that definition as well.”
Representatives from Summit and Navigator argued that the PUC did not have regulatory authority.
