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West Roxbury pipeline to open, despite protests

More than a dozen clergy members were arrested on May 25, 2016, at the the pipeline construction site on Grove Street. John Tlumacki / Globe Staff / File

By The Boston Globe

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A Houston energy company plans to start transmitting gas through a pipeline in densely populated West Roxbury on Thursday, despite two years of protests by neighbors and the continued objections of city officials concerned about public safety.

The news outraged neighbors who fear the pipeline could explode because it travels near an open quarry where dynamite is regularly detonated.

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