He added British Gas was working to improve their procedures, including working more closely with Transco and making more efforts to contact customers.
But many of the 3 million customers of this solid New England outfit might be surprised to know that this utility is a subsidiary of U.K.-based National Grid Transco.
Gerald Draper and his colleagues at the University of Oxford, and John Swanson of National Grid Transco, a power-transmission company, have looked at the distribution of childhood cancer along the power lines of the national electricity grid in England and Wales.
Lord Carloway pointed out that evidence in the case showed Transco was aware by 1988 that within a decade of being laid ductile iron mains could corrode in adverse soil conditions and the problem had been highlighted by fatal blasts at Warrington and Ilkeston.
Like National Grid Transco (nyse: NGG - news - people ), the 10 other companies listed below are headquartered outside the U.S. but generate at least 15% of their revenues on our shores, which means that they are likely to benefit when the U.S. economy gets back on track.