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“It’s cheaper to build in rural areas — they don’t have to worry about added regulations when they do that,” Weimer said. “But if there’s a pipe next to your house that blows up, you’re gonna be just as dead as someone in a populated area.”
A 600-mile pipeline could soon slice across Appalachia. I met the people in its way.
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Energy companies say the Atlantic Coast Pipeline will benefit the communiti...1 week ago ·
Please listen to this powerful address by the former chair of the National Transportation Safety Board regarding moving pipeline safety forward.
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Thursday is the start of this year's Pipeline Safety Trust conference. We will be streaming live many of the presentations which you can watch at pstrust.org/no2019live. There is a link to the agenda there too. All the sessions in the Queen Anne Ballroom will be available live.
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The risks for Americans are rising, especially along Colorado’s Front Range and other areas where communities are expanding onto once-rural land, said Carl Weimer, director of the Pipeline Safety Trust.
“We’re playing roulette as a nation right now,” Weimer said. “We’re relying on an industry that is trying to make a fast buck to do the right things. It works for some operators. For others, it does not.”
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Colorado leaders promised back in 2017 that they’d do all they could to m...2 months ago ·
"During the five-year effort to pry open the box of secrecy surrounding the Pegasus spill, the Trust's Rebecca Craven encountered multiple denials for records by PHMSA, coordination between the federal agency and Exxon on whether certain records should be released, and unsatisfactory explanations for the secrecy.
The public should know what happens in enforcement hearings and what information is exchanged between PHMSA and the pipeline operator, along with legal arguments being made by the operators and PHMSA's attorneys, Craven said.
"Without access to the hearings and documents, the public can't know why the agency may dismiss certain violations or lower penalties or what safety information the operator may have provided," she said."
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6 Years After Exxon's Oil Pipeline Burst in an Arkansas Town, a Final Accounting
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In sealed depositions, Mayflower residents describe illnesses, property dam...2 months ago ·