By Mark De Bono
Posted Wed Nov 11, 2009 12:00pm AEDT
Worksafe and Government authorities are investigating two serious gas leaks at the Longford gas plant in eastern Victoria over the weekend.
Huge flames lit up the night sky around the Gippsland town of Sale, on Friday night as excess gas was diverted from the disabled gas plant to the burn-off flares.
Esso says a pipe failed in a compressor area, releasing the high pressure gas.
The affected section of the plant was shut down, triggering another leak later the same night.
The plant's emergency reponse plan was activated, but no outside emergency service crews were called in.
A plant operator suffered minor injuries when he fell during the incident.
The plant was the site of a huge explosion and gas fire in 1998 that shut down the State's gas supplies for two weeks and triggered years of legal action.
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