If the number of recent, deadly natural gas explosions that have occurred in this country is any indication, there are big problems underground, and some local officials in Fairhope, Alabama are concerned enough that they raised the topic publicly at a recent public meeting. Here’s a link to a very short video of that discussion;
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You know it’s bad when natural gas pipelines are exploding so routinely that federal investigators can’t keep up with all of them — but that’s exactly what’s happening in the United States right now. The chairperson of the National Transportation Safety Board, Deborah Hersman, told the Associated Press that “it’s been a particularly bad year
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With natural gas leaks and explosions occurring with disturbing regularity, more of the mainstream media is beginning to take notice and ask questions. In Pennsylvania, for example, WGAL-TV8 ran a story about inspecting that state’s natural gas pipelines. It’s a decent piece, but doesn’t really do much more than take the natural gas company’s word
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Newly released audio and visual recording from the natural gas explosion that leveled a Detroit furniture store on Dec. 29, 2010, killing two of the stores employees, reveals the awesome power of the blast and the chaos that followed. You can see the footage and hear the recordings here.

It was a big weekend for natural gas explosions and leaks in North America, with so many incidents happening all over the place it was hard to keep up with them all – but we did our best. First, there was a great editorial on Friday in The Post, out of Bridegport, CT, called, “We’ll
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By naturalgaswatch.org staff Once upon a time, natural gas – encouraged by pie-in-the-sky marketing and Astroturf campaigns run by the natural gas industry, was viewed as the “green” fuel of choice. No longer. Environmentalists, it seems, have woken up to the fact that there’s a tremendous carbon cost associated with getting that fuel out of
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On Wednesday night last week, a massive natural gas explosion destroyed an entire city block in Allentown, PA, and killed five people. Officials looking into the nature of the blast have attributed aging cast iron pipes as one likely cause, according to a story in the Allentown Morning Call. The story states that, “Not including
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As the damage from natural gas explosions around the country continues to mount, an Ohio newspaper weighs in with a call for greater regulation of an industry that seems to be out of control. Read the editorial here.

Consumer confidence in the safety of natural gas is slipping after a series of high-profile, deadly explosions, said federal regulators, who urged state utility inspectors to “step up our game,” according to a recent story in Platts, a trade journal that tracks the energy industry. According to the Platts story, Rhode Island Public Utility Commissioner
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According to a story published this morning on New York City’s NBC website, the Big Apple natural gas infrastructure is plagued by an astonishing amount of leaks — nearly 2,500 of them last year alone. We’re no mathematicians, but a quick, back-of-the-envelope calculation shows that that figure breaks down to about seven leaks a day!
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