The government used to force pipeline companies to hold excess inventories of gas, either through long-term contracts with producers or their own underground reserves.

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The protocols that have generally been established by Admiral Allen are if you believe that what are considered gale force winds, so winds in excess of 39 miles an hour, are likely at the site, that preparations should begin 120 hours prior to that event in terms of moving that equipment out of the area.

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Few would immediately associate Britain's most westerly police force, Devon and Cornwall, with an excess of either crime or controversy.

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Rather than try to win a judgment in excess of a small firm's liability insurance policy (and potentially force it to liquidate assets, which complicates payment), plaintiffs in many states can sue all along the company's supply chain to sweeten the spoils.

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