increase font size Fuel pipeline shutdown unlikely to affect Maine Maine and New England do not depend on the Colonial Pipeline, a major East Coast source of gasoline and other fuels that shut down last week after a cyber attack but restarted Wednesday. Share Maine and Northern New England are unlikely to feel any shocks from the several-day shutdown of a major East Coast gasoline pipeline after a cyber attack last week. The pipeline began resuming operations Wednesday. The Colonial Pipeline connects refineries on the Gulf Coast to markets in the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic coast, from Texas to New Jersey. It was partially shut down last Friday, after a cyberattack blamed on a criminal group threatened the company’s systems.