Island Energy has pleaded not guilty to a health-and-safety offence relating to an explosion at a home on Mont Pinel last year.
Managing director Darryl Goddard appeared in the Magistrate’s Court on Thursday morning to enter the plea.
Crown Advocate Paul Lee, prosecuting, said that Island Energy was accused of failing to properly disconnect old gas pipes, allowing gas to build up inside the property and create the conditions for the explosion.
Advocate Mike Preston, defending, said the company denies failing to carry out operations that exposed people to risk, and maintains that its actions were not the cause of the incident at Elizabeth Villas on Wednesday 26 June 2024.
Assistant Magistrate Adam Clarke, presiding, decided that the case was too serious to be heard by the Magistrate’s Court and referred it to the Royal Court.
Island Energy will next appear in court on 6 February.