Enbridge pipeline rupture causes explosion in Kentucky

Enbridge pipeline rupture causes explosion in Kentucky 

by Caroline Llanes, Michigan Radio (Aug 2, 2019) – “Carl Weimer is the executive director of the Pipeline Safety Trust. He says Enbridge’s number of incidents per mile of pipeline has gone up over the past five years, particularly in regard to the Texas Eastern pipeline. ‘We have looked at the instant trends for that company, for those natural gas lines, and they have had a number of failures in the past few years. So that’s kind of concerning that their incident rate seems to be increasing,’ says Weimer.  He says that’s not the only thing his group is concerned about. ‘The causes are kind of concerning too, because about 70% of those significant incidents are from things that the pipeline companies say that they ought to be able to control, things like corrosion, bad welds, and bad equipment, and incorrect operation of the pipeline,’ he says.”