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People who work with pipelines understand that the pipeline goes through other people’s backyards.  The ‘people’ working with pipelines could be engineers, technicians, lawyers, construction workers, administrative staff, and so on.

And by other people’s backyard, that means the public.  The ‘innocent bystander’: they don’t do a hazard analysis or risk assessment before stepping out their front door to walk the dog.

We have a deep ethical requirement to consider public safety in our work.  The goal every day is that ‘nothing happens’. The pipelines are safe and are basically invisible to the public.  And they should stay that way.