Pipeline accidents, spills down 17% – report 

Pipeline accidents, spills down 17% – report 

by Mike Soraghan, E&E News (May 14, 2020) – “But a pipeline safety group says the industry’s report doesn’t tell the whole story. Bill Caram, deputy director of the Pipeline Safety Trust, a Bellingham, Wash., advocacy organization, said the industry groups are measuring improvement from a year that had a lot of accidents to paint a happier picture. ‘Let’s not celebrate a reduction from an unusually awful period of pipeline safety to one that remains unacceptable,’ Caram said. Measured against 2010, he said, the ‘trend line’ points upward for both total incidents and incidents harming people and the environment.”