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Local Government Guide to Pipelines now available!
The Trust's newly published Local Government Guide to Pipelines is now available for download (3.4 MB) or in hard copy by request.
Our 2014 Pipeline Safety Trust conference will be held Nov 20-21 at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in the French Quarter of New Orleans, LA
Summer 2014 issue of our newsletter, Safe Pipelines
The Trust's Summer 2014 Newsletter, Safe Pipelines is now available as a pdf download. Click here (1.1MB).
On May 20th the Pipeline Safety Trust Testified to Congress
You can review our testimony here, or view a video of the entire hearing here
Video and PowerPoints from the 2013 conference
Pipeline Safety Beyond Keystone - Expanding the Public Spotlight The 2013 Pipeline Safety Trust Conference was held in New Orleans, LA on November 21-22. To view On Demand video as well as presentation files click here.
Breaking News
Reasons given for banning pipeline. By Tom Relihan, The Recorder (Oct 22, 2014).
Concerns over aging natural gas pipelines. By Natalie Shepherd, Eyewitness News (Oct 15, 2014).
Environmental disasters lurk in energy pipelines. By Keith Matheny, The Detroit Free Press (Oct 12, 2014).
Light penalties the norm for state utilities following fatal accidents. By Sam Kennedy, The Morning Call (Oct 11, 2014).
Embattled PUC president Peevey leaving under fire in December. By Ken Broder, AllGov CA (Oct 10, 2014).
NEB delays Enbridge plan to ship oil through reversed Line 9 pipeline. By Shawn McCarthy, The Globe and Mail (Oct 09 2014).
Federal prosecutors probing PG&E-CPUC emails. By Jaxon Van Derbeken, SFGate (Oct 6, 2014).
Tensions mount between homeowners, ET Rover natural gas pipeline survey crews. By Eric Dresden, MLive (Oct 2, 2014).
Company preparing to submit natural gas pipeline application to FERC. By Robert Hudson, AlexCity Outlook (Oct 1, 2014).
Judge denies PG&E request to remove San Bruno explosion references from federal criminal trial. By George Avalos, San Jose Mercury News (Sept 30, 2014).
Location of natural gas lines, whether leaking, shrouded from public. By Mike Wereschagin, Trib Media (Sept 24, 2014).
Look out below: danger lurks underground from aging gas pipes. By John Kelly, USA Today (Sept 24, 2014). (See also their interactive page with pipeline info by zip code.)
As deaths mount, pipeline safety comes into focus. By Sammy Roth, The Desert Sun (Sept 24, 2014).
GAO Report: Additional actions are needed to improve pipeline safety. GAO (Sept 22, 2014).
PG&E should pay $1.4 billion for San Bruno blast: Judges. By Mark Chediak, Bloomberg (Sept 2, 2014).
Landowners tell proposed LNG export terminal in Coos Bay: 'Keep your pipeline off my property.' By Ted Sickinger, The Oregonian (Aug 28, 2014).
Public to weigh in on state Enbridge spill report. By The Battle Creek Enquirer (Aug 26, 2014).
FERC staff OKs Texas Eastern project for bidirectional capability near Marcellus, Utica. By Sean Sullivan, SNL (Aug 25, 2014).
In the Rockaways, pipeline debate takes a contentious turn. By Peter Moskowitz, AljazeeraAmerica (Aug 20, 2014).
Four Years After Pipeline Explosion, San Bruno Neighborhood Still Rebuilding. CBS San Francisco (Aug 14, 2014).
Prosecutors raise legal stakes for PG&E in San Bruno criminal trial. By George Avalos, Oakland Tribune (Aug 3, 2014).
Houston praised, some others panned for gas pipeline maintenance. By Rhiannon Meyers, Fuel Fix (July 25, 2014).
Pipeline company faced $270K in penalties. Associated Press, The Emporia Gazzett (July 19, 2014).
Belle Fourche Pipeline: Corrosion caused leak that spilled 25,000 gallons of oil in Wyoming. By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press, The Republic (July 18, 2014).
The gas company that says it can take your backyard. By Evan Hill, AljazeeraAmerica (July 16, 2014).
'Bambi taking on Godzilla': A Q&A with nation's top pipeline safety advocate. By Lisa Song, InsideClimate News (June 24, 2014).
C-SPAN cities tour: Bellingham. Remembering the Olympic Pipeline Explosion:
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"There's no problem if you never really look for it."
We think it is sad that citizens have to fund and undertake health studies because government doesn't want to possibly upset the cash cow.
5-State Study Finds Unsafe Levels of Airborne Chemicals Near Oil and Gas Sites
insideclimatenews.org
Dirk DeTurck had a years-old rash that wouldn't go away, his wife's hair came out in chunks and any time they lingered outside their house for more than an hour, splitting headaches set in.
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View on FacebookStill at the PHMSA Technical Committee meeting in DC. FERC just stated that there is "a tsunami of new pipelines" coming at us over the next few years. Everyone wondering if the regulators have the resources necessary to keep up?
1 week ago
View on FacebookOne of the Trust's Board members - Dr. Insko - will be speaking at this event.
If you're in the Kalamazoo area (or want to drive there), we'll be at Western Michigan University Wednesday evening as part of a panel discussing Enbridge and tar sands oil expansion in Michigan and the great lakes region.
2 weeks ago
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Carl Weimer is with the National Pipeline Safety Trust
“So it really depends on how the company has been operating and maintaining it. And that’s a really hard thing to find out.”
Question about condition of Straits of Mackinac pipeline has complicated answer (Part 1)
interlochenpublicradio.org
Listen Listening...
3 weeks ago
View on FacebookThis is an important read of a recurring situation we see around the country where companies undermine the long term trust in their pipelines in their rush to get them in the ground.
grangehallpress.com
There's been a lot of news about ET Rover this week, owing to an unfortunate incident in which their survey crews entered or tried to enter the properties of some landowners without permission, in one case sparking a potentially dangerous confrontation. It's unfortunate that it's come to this, though it was also probably inevitable. ET Rover's ham-handed dealings with landowners have done nothing but fuel the understandable frustration and anger of landowners. [ 1349 more words. ]
4 weeks ago
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