Noting that Hurricane Sandy was technically not quite a 100-year-storm, engineers and executives at Williams-Transco assured concerned state and federal regulators recently that the natural gas pipeline they propose to run through coastal wetlands and recreation areas near Coney Island faces only a small risk of being damaged by flooding in a similar natural disaster.
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The California Public Utilities Commission yesterday recommended a record $2.25 billion fine be levied against Pacific Gas & Electric for the utility’s role in the massive explosion that killed eight people and destroyed an entire neighborhood in San Bruno, California, two years ago. Ed. Note – If you enjoy the coverage and content you receive
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The company seeking to build a natural gas pipeline through national park land near New York City dismissed safety recommendations from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently, asserting instead that their own plans to build the pipeline to a lesser standard will provide “full protection of the pipeline while minimizing environmental impacts,” according to
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The Transcontinental Gas Pipeline Company, a division of Williams Partners LP, filed an application yesterday with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) seeking permission to build a controversial new natural gas distribution pipeline through national park land to bring additional natural gas supply into New York City. Known as the Rockaway Lateral Line, the proposed
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Even as firefighters struggle to extinguish natural gas-fueled fires above ground in New York City and New Jersey, damage done to the metropolitan area’s underground natural gas distribution system by the recent massive flooding may pose a significant, long-range threat to public safety, according to industry experts and documents obtained by NaturalGasWatch.org. Ed. note –
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A few weeks ago, a group of protesters affiliated with Occupy the Pipeline managed to gain access to the construction site at Gansevoort and the Hudson Parkway, where a massive new natural gas pipeline that will run from New Jersey into lower Manhattan is being laid, and blocked construction of the project for more than
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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission gave tentative approval this morning to a controversial, massive new natural gas pipeline to be built through New Jersey into low Manhattan. From the FERC draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS): We determined that construction and operation of the NJ-NY Project would result in limited adverse environmental impacts. These limited impacts
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In a letter filed today with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the Port Authority of New York/New Jersey laid out a series of concerns the agency said remain unaddressed and could ultimately scuttle the agency’s support for the proposed Spectra Energy natural gas pipeline project. “Should FERC’s ultimate recommendation on final pipeline alignment and certification
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The number of natural gas pipeline incidents — natural gas leaks or natural gas explosions — in New York City shot up dramatically in 2011, increasing by 400 percent compared to the previous year, according to documents obtained by NaturalGasWatch.org. According to records obtained from the Pipeline & Hazardous Material Safety Administration (PHMSA,) the federal
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A study of the drinking water in Wyoming released by the federal Environmental Protection Agency yesterday directly connects hydraulic fracturing — or fracking, as it has come to be known in the parlance of our times — by the natural gas industry to water contamination there. From the EPA’s press release: EPA constructed two deep
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