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We are now posting video and presentation slides from our recent Pipeline Safety Trust conference held in New Orleans. You can find these at this link.
Winter 2016 newsletter available
Featuring articles on Dilbit and Keystone XL. Download your copy now.
Many Comments Submitted on Hazardous Liquid Pipeline Safety Rulemaking.
Comments were due January 8 to the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration. See links on our page about Opportunities for Comment and Participation.
Pipeline Safety Trust Executive Director honored at the White House as a Champion of Change!
Carl Weimer, the Trust Executive Director, was recognized on Tuesday, Oct 13 at the White House as one of 11 individuals from across the country as “White House Transportation Champions of Change.”
2015 Public Transparency Review of State Pipeline Safety Agencies & PHMSA
The annual Public Transparency Review of State Pipeline Safety Agencies & PHMSA is now live on our website. Check it out.
On July 14th the Trust Testified to Congress
You can review all testimony here, or view a video of the entire hearing here
Local Government Guide to Pipelines
The Pipeline Safety Trust has a Local Government Guide to Pipelines available on our Pipeline Information for Local Government page
Breaking News
To see news that has rolled off of our home page click here
PG&E loses ruling in San Bruno explosion trial by George Avalos, The Mercury News (November 17, 2016)
WV Supreme Court sides with Landowners on unauthorized Pipeline Surveys by Ken Ward, Charleston Gazette Mail (November 15, 2016)
Army Corps Halts Dakota Access Pipeline, Pending Review By Phil McKenna, Inside Climate News (November 15, 2016)
Damning Testimony in PG&E’s Fatal Explosion Trial By Nicholas Iovino, Courthouse News Service (July 21st, 2016)
Head of NTSB’s San Bruno Probe Says PG&E Secretly Interviewed Witness By Jaxon Van Derbeken, NBCbayarea.com (July 20th, 2016)
NTSB investigator testifies he believes PG&E misled him ktvu.com (July 20th, 2016)
What’s next for oil pipeline under Great Lakes? By Angelica A. Morrison, WBFO 88.7 (July 20th, 2016)
Enbridge’s Kalamazoo Spill Saga Ends in $177 Million Settlement By David Hasemyer, Inside Climate News (July 20th, 2016)
Exxon fights U.S. post-spill policy, seeks abidance delay By Debra Hale-Shelton, Arkansas Online (July 20th, 2016)
Corrosion found on another pipeline near site of April blast By Anya Litvak, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (July 20th, 2016)
Republican platform calls for reviving the Keystone XL Canadian oil pipeline By Alexander Panetta, National Observer (July 19th, 2016)
Plains All American Pipeline Faces Criminal Charges in Refugio Oil Spill By Giana Magnoli, Noozhawk Managing Editor (May 17, 2016)
Officials vow VA will protect watershed if pipeline goes ahead By Jeff Day, Bay Journal, (May 16, 2016)
Feds sued over Straits oil pipeline Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press (May 16, 2016)
Natural Gas Explosion Triggers Fire, Leaves 1 Injured Man And 2 Damaged Houses, Affects US Gas Markets By Elaine C, Scienceworld Report (May 2, 2016)
Some Prosecution Witnesses Get Immunity in PG&E San Bruno Blast Trial By George Avalos, The Mercury News (April 27th, 2016)
Michigan Receives Seven Proposals to Conduct Analyses os Straits of Mackinac Pipelines By Amelia Zak, Michigan Radio (April 26, 2016)
Opponents Hope They Can Stop a Third Pipeline By Karen DeWitt, WXXI News (April 25, 2016)
Enbridge: Straits of Mackinac pipeline spill study ‘unrealistic’ By Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press (April 1, 2016)
Delaware Riverkeeper sues FERC over Leidy pipeline By Bob Downing, Ohio.com (March 11, 2016).
Feds reject Jordan Cove LNG terminal By Ted Sickinger, The Oregonian (March 11, 2016).
It Just Got a Lot Harder for SoCalGas to Reopen Aliso Canyon. By Gene Maddaus, LA Weekly (March 9, 2016).
Enbridge pipeline plan in northern Wisconsin prompts concerns. By Lee Bergquist of the Journal Sentinel (March 6, 2016).
Industry dominates lobbying of pipeline, hazmat agency. By Rachel Leven, Bloomberg (Feb 8, 2016).
New federal gas storage regulations likely to mimic industry’s guidelines. By Phil McKenna, InsideClimate News (Feb 8, 2016).
Pipeline leak statistics should give pause to pipeline supporters. By Ron Whittington, Athens Banner-Herald (Jan 3, 2016).
FERC: Atlantic Coast pipeline must consider alternate routes. By Robert Walton, UtilityDIVE (Dec 14, 2015).
TransCanada failed to operate Keystone safely, US regulator alleges. By Mike De Souza, National Observer (Dec 11, 2015).
Unique hazards of tar sands oil spills confirmed by National Academies of Sciences. By Zahra Hirji, InsideClimate News (Dec 9, 2015).
Inside the fight to shut down Line 5. By Lee DeVito, Detroit MetroTimes (Dec 9, 2015).
Spills of Diluted Bitumen from Pipelines: A Comparative Study of Environmental Fate, Effects, and Response is now posted on the National Academies Press website and is available for free download (Dec 8, 2015).
NYers fear gas pipeline near nuclear reactor could spell disaster. By Aaron Cantu, Aljazeera America (Dec 3, 2015).
Pipeline safety plans miss the leak. By Elana Schor and Andrew Restuccia, Politico (Oct 28, 2015).
USDOT, White House to honor transportation “champions of change” for innovation. By Chris Hill, Equipment World (Oct 12, 2015). [See the Trust press release on this topic here.]
Explosion at natural gas facility in Gibson kills 3 workers, seriously injures 2 others. By Danielle Maddox, The New Orleans Advocate (Oct 8, 2015).
Exxon is fined $2.6M for spill. By Debra Hale-Shelton, Northwest AR Democrat-Gazette (Oct 2, 205).
PST Press Release on PHMSA Hazardous Liquid Proposed Rule released Thursday, October 1, 2015.
Feds want tougher rules for oil pipelines after spills. By Matthew Brown, AP (Oct 1, 2015).
Two years after Tioga, N.D., spill, dirty pile still dwarfs clean pile. By Amy Dalrymple, Grand Forks Herald (Sept 28, 2015).
Pennsylvania community experiences pipeline proliferation. By Duncan Adams, The Roanoke Times (Sept 13, 2015).
As US rushes to build gas lines, failure rate of new pipes has spiked. By Sarah Smith, SNL (Sept 9, 2015).
We’re still waiting for confirmation on the health of Line 5 in the Straits of Mackinac. By Mark Brush, MI Radio (Sept 2, 2015).
Dueling studies dispute need for more pipelines in New England. By William Opalka, RTO Insider (Aug 31, 2015).
Cleanup underway after 26,000 gallon Alberta pipeline spill. By Nicolas Torres, Petro Global News (Aug 23, 2015).
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“There have been some safety improvements that have reduced the number of fatalities and injuries but, overall, the trend line has started to go back the wrong direction,” said Carl Weimer, Executive Director of the Pipeline Safety Trust.
Protesters Say Pipelines Are Dangerous. Are They?
kunc.org
Demonstrators protested all around the country this week, in opposition to a controversial crude oil pipeline, with chants like, “We stand with Standing
1 week ago ·
Want your voice heard on pipeline safety? Applications for this new advisory committee are due November 28th.
2 weeks ago ·
From Executive Director Carl Weimer: "The main thing that people should be worried about is how well the company has been operating and maintaining and testing the pipeline."
Colonial Pipeline Part Of Aging U.S. Gas Infrastructure
news.wabe.org
The Colonial Pipeline, which has been shut down for the second time this fall, is one of a number of aging pipelines in the U.S. Parts of it are now 50
4 weeks ago ·
There have been 135 excavation accidents involving pipelines carrying hazardous liquids, such as gasoline or crude oil, over the last 10 years, according to Carl Weimer, executive director of the Pipeline Safety Trust, an industry watchdog group. That’s roughly one a month.
But there has only been one fatality from such an accident in the last ten years, when a Georgia man was killed when a pipeline carrying liquid propane ruptured in 2010.
“Fatalities are fortunately pretty rare,” said Weimer. “But things do go terribly wrong sometimes.”
How often do pipelines blow up?
myfox8.com
Accidents like the one Monday that shut down the Colonial pipeline are not terribly rare. But it is rare for such accidents to cause a fatality. Monday's blast occurred when a construction crew in Shelby County, Alabama, hit the pipeline with a trackhoe. The explosion killed one worker, injured five...
4 weeks ago ·
PST Executive Director Carl Weimer makes a case for the oil/gas industry working to address climate change at our conference in New Orleans last week:
"I really believe that the oil and gas industry has the resources, the technical ability and the organization to fix all of these things more rapidly than anyone else," Weimer said. "The question is: Do you want to?"
1 month ago ·