Smart Pig Blog

Editor’s Note: This blog post is the first in a three-part series. Over the course of the next few weeks, we’ll take a look at each category of natural gas pipeline and explain why it’s important that every pipelin (Read More)

Walking Whatcom Creek 23 Years After the Olympic Pipeline Explosion On Tuesday, we walked Whatcom Creek. Our whole staff together. Carl Weimer narrated as we visited the sites of those tragic events in ’99. We stoo (Read More)

PST’s Data and GIS Analyst James Eager walks us through one state’s pipeline safety track record each month. Click on the “State of Safety” tag at the bottom of the post to see all of James’ (Read More)

When you live in Bellingham you know about the tragic 1999 Olympic pipeline incident. The town hasn’t and will never forget that day. Pipeline Safety Trust Program Manager Amanda McKay sees the reminders on a daily bas (Read More)

PST’s Data and GIS Analyst James Eager walks us through one state’s pipeline safety track record each month. Click on the “State of Safety” tag at the bottom of the post to see all of James’ (Read More)

CO2 Pipelines – Dangerous and Under-Regulated A Flurry of Proposed CO2 Pipelines Threaten the Safety of our Communities The carbon dioxide pipeline buildout is here, and we’re not ready. Pipeline companies (Read More)

PST’s Data and GIS Analyst James Eager walks us through one state’s pipeline safety track record each month. Click on the “State of Safety” tag at the bottom of the post to see all of James’ (Read More)

Breaking the PBF Energy Oil Spill in Chalmette, LA Fourteen days into the job I witnessed the positive impact the Pipeline Safety Trust (PST) imparts on our society. Actually, I didn’t just witness the impact, I helped (Read More)

James Eager has been the Data & GIS analyst at the Pipeline Safety Trust (PST) for a month but it didn’t take him long to become startled by some of the data he’s sifted through.  “So far, the biggest surp (Read More)

Heather witnessed the Bellingham Tragedy. At the time, she lived in Bellingham and worked in Cordata. She saw the explosion from her office window. “Was it a plane crash?” she thought. “What was it?” She wasn’t (Read More)