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Save The Date!
The Annual Pipeline Safety Trust Conference returns to New Orleans this fall.
Start planning to attend now. November 19-20th, 2015
On-demand conference videos are available
Our 2014 Fall newsletter is available for downloading (pdf, 1.6MB)
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
Summer 2014 issue of our newsletter, Safe Pipelines
The Trust's Summer 2014 Newsletter, Safe Pipelines is 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
NTSB: San Bruno Pipeline Blast An Example Safety Oversight Flaws AP (Jan 27, 2015).
Right of Way: Pipelines wield eminent domain as they forge costly new paths. By Sarah Smith and Sean Sullivan, SNL (Jan 27, 2015).
Ethane pipeline blast creates fireball. By Casey Junkins, The Intelligencer / Wheeling News-Register (Jan 27, 2015).
No deal on Enbridge pipeline insurance. By Mike Ivey, The Capital Times (Jan 27, 2015).
North Dakota pipeline leaked 3 million gallons of brine in oil drilling. By Regina Garcia Cano, Associated Press (Jan 21, 2015).
Ice hinders cleanup of Yellowstone oil pipeline spill. By Zahra Hirji, InsideClimate News (Jan 21, 2015).
Cancer-Causing Agent Detected in Water After Pipeline Spill. By Matthew Brown, Associated Press (Jan 20, 2015).
Pipeline at 'moderate risk' for failure; cleanup begins in Yellowstone River oil spill. By Larry Mayer, Billings Gazette (Jan 19, 2015).
The other pipeline you should worry about. By Dan Kaufman, NY Times (Jan 16, 2015).
Kinder Morgan won't disclose oil pipeline emergency plan. By Jeff Nagel, BC Local News (Jan 16, 2015).
Pipeline officials answer some questions, fuel other concerns. By Pam Wright, The Advocate Messenger News (Jan 16, 2015).
PUC to pressure city on replacing aged gas mains. By Andrew Maykuth, Philadelphia Inquirer (Jan 12, 2015).
Enbridge pipeline expansion, larger than Keystone, drawing some Dane County skeptics. By Steven Verburg, WiscNews (Jan 11, 2015).
Oil pipeline draws passionate debate. By Kirsti Marohn, St. Cloud Times (Jan 9, 2015).
Prospective CPUC head dismisses PG&E concerns, says too much Bay Area focus. By Ted Goldberg, KQED (Dec 30, 2014).
Moab's redneck country is under pressure from fracking. By Nancy Lofholm, The Denver Post (Dec 29, 2014).
Improving Chesco pipeline website, and helping other counties adopt similar protocols. By Michaelle Bond, Philadelphia Inquirer (Dec 29, 2014).
Rural gas gathering pipelines kindle concerns about safety laws. By Mike Wereschagin, TribLive (Dec 27, 2014).
The center seat: Julie Fedorchak looks to long-term needs as she takes over ND PSC chair. By Maxine Herr, Petroleum News Bakken (Dec 26, 2014).
Former administration official 'Keystone will eventually be built'. By Laura Barron-Lopez, The Hill (Dec 22, 2014).
State sides with oil companies in lawsuit by landowner over saltwater spills. By Andrew Brown, Forum News Service (Billings Gazette; Dec 21, 2014).
Pipeline prospects far from certain for 2015. By Lauren Krugel, The Canadian Press (Dec 18, 2014).
'Pinhole leak' in U.P. gas pipeline raises straits fears. By Keith Matheny, Lansing State Journal (Dec 17, 2014).
North American fossil fuel boom raises risks from expanding oil and gas transport network. By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue (Dec 15, 2014).
Dominion opts against route away from schools. By Calvin Trice, NewsLeader (Virginia) (Dec 12, 2014).
Investigation into a 2013 pipeline leak near Wrigley, Northwest Territories uncovers multiple causal factors. By PR Newswire (Dec 4, 2014).
Diluted bitumen study: expert committee holds first meeting. By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue (Dec 2, 2014).
As Keystone XL stalls, another pipeline network moves quietly forward. By Shannon Heffernan, WBEZ (Dec 1, 2014).
Energy East pipeline: TransCanada standing down on further work in Quebec. By The Canadian Press (Dec 1, 2014).
The US energy infrastructure: Is is safe? By Gene Lockard, Rigzone (Nov 27, 2014).
Why pipeline critics are important. By CEPA (Nov 26, 2014).
With all eyes on Keystone, another tar sands pipeline just crossed the border. By Zoe Schlanger, Newsweek (Nov 25, 2014).
FERC issues proposed policy statement regarding cost recovery for pipeline modernization. By Debra Ann Palmer, The National Law Review (Nov 24, 2014).
Fix decaying pipelines first for jobs, health and safety. By Joe Conason, TruthDig (Nov 19, 2014).
Pipeline alert from federal regulator is first of its kind. By Elizabeth Douglass, InsideClimate News (Nov 17, 2014).
Landowner rights vs. public need in battle over pipeline route. By Duncan Adams, The Roanoke Times (Nov 9, 2014).
Decrepit PA natural gas utility pipelines years from upgrade. By Mike Wereschagin, TribTotalMedia (Nov 1, 2014).
Exxon fighting to keep public from seeing 900,000 pages of documents in oil spill lawsuit. By Elizabeth Douglass, InsideClimate News (Oct 31, 2014).
PG&E cutting gas pressure on lines with lower-quality parts. By Jaxon Van Derbeken, SFGate (Oct 30, 2014).
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).
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Here is part two of the eminent domain series. Trust board member Jeff Insko (Line 6B Citizens' Blog) is quoted, and this is a picture of his famous pipeline watchdog.
SNL: Right of Way: Along pipeline routes, landowners battle for compensation | SNL
www.snl.com
This is the second article in a two-part series looking at the use of eminent domain in a time of rapid expansion of U.S. natural gas infrastructure. The first article can be found here.
3 days ago
View on FacebookInteresting two part series on Eminent Domain.
"Altogether, the negotiations are stacked against landowners because pipelines hold the power of eminent domain, she emphasized."
SNL: Right of Way: Pipelines wield eminent domain as they forge costly new paths | SNL
www.snl.com
This is the first article in a two-part series on the use of eminent domain in a time of rapid expansion of U.S. natural gas and oil infrastructure. Part two will address landowners' challenges.
3 days ago
View on FacebookBut Samya Lutz of the Pipeline Trust says “the question is not so much whether they (or their subsidiary) have or have not done so: it’s whether local governments have the authority to require it.”
No deal on Enbridge pipeline insurance : Ct
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Enbridge, the top exporter of heavy crude oil from western Canada, is seeking a conditional use permit from Dane County to build a new pumping station near Marshall.
4 days ago
View on Facebook"The Pipeline Safety Trust, based in Bellingham, Wash., has used PHMSA reports to compile incident rates for pipelines carrying hazardous liquids such as crude oil. The group's most recent calculations cover incidents from 2006 through 2013, and found that the average rate was 0.015 incidents per mile of pipeline operated.
Bridger, with 316 miles of pipelines and nine incidents during that period, had an incident rate of 0.028, according to Rebecca Craven, program director for the Pipeline Safety Trust."
Ruptured Yellowstone Oil Pipeline Was Built With Faulty Welding in 1950s
insideclimatenews.org
The aging Poplar Pipeline [3] that spilled oil into the Yellowstone River in Montana on Saturday was built with pipe made using faulty welding techniques, and its owner has had a series of spills on the line. These two factors put the pipeline at a higher risk for problems.
1 week ago
View on FacebookAnother spill in the Yellowstone River...
"When I told Craven I wanted to know more about what reforms had resulted from the 2011 pipeline safety act, she responded that it would be a very short conversation. Not much at all had changed, she said."
www.hcn.org/articles/pipeline-safety-regulation-little-changed-since-last-yellowstone-river-oil-s...
Another Yellowstone River oil spill
www.hcn.org
Pipeline safety regulation hasn't changed much since the last spill.
1 week ago
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