By naturalgaswatch.org staff. A rundown of the leaks and explosions that made headlines around the country during the past week. The Latest: A few minutes after 2 a.m. this morning, a natural gas line in Illinois exploded in rural Scott County, forcing 100 people to evacuate the rural area, according to a report from television
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Chesapeake Energy, the owners and operators of the fracking well that exploded yesterday in Pennsylvania, have stopped all fracking operations in the company’s Eastern Division until they can figure out why the well exploded. Thousands of gallons of toxic fracking fluid were dispersed into the surrounding area as a result of the explosion, flowing over
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From the Saw-This-One-Coming-From-A-Mile-Away File: Pacific Gas & Electric executives have pretty much told the members of the California Public Utilities Commission to go screw themselves after the agency asked the utility to produce a complete set of records pertaining to the 1,800 miles of natural gas pipeline that snakes throughout the state. The San Francisco
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By naturalgaswatch.org staff State and local legislators in at least two states are looking to natural gas utilities to take care of their aging natural gas infrastructures that are plagued with leaks, spewing volatile methane gas into the atmosphere unchecked, doing serious damage to the environment and posing a major threat to public safety as
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At 11:56 a.m. this morning, Chesapeake Energy posted this statement to the company’s Facebook page — skip down to the bottom of the statement to get to the good part: they have no idea what caused the explosion, but there’s no danger to the public. So, the question is, then, which Chesapeake exec is going
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From the cruel irony department: on the one year anniversary of the most notorious natural gas explosion in American history — the BP Deepwater Horizon event that killed 11 workers and spilled God knows how much oil into the Gulf of Mexico along with millions of gallons of “dispersant” meant to spur the cleanup effort
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More than seven months after a massive natural gas explosion killed eight people and destroyed an entire neighborhood in San Bruno, CA, regulators are still going after PG&E to hold the utility accountable. In connection with a recent rate case decision, PG&E will have to file twice yearly safety reports with the California Public Utilities
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According to a story in today’s Wall Street Journal, two more major California natural gas utilities can’t provide state regulators with key safety records because they can’t seem to find them. You can read the whole story here. According to the story: Following the San Bruno accident and urgent recommendations by the National Transportation Safety
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By naturalgaswatch.org staff In restating his support for fracking because he evidently felt the need to defend himself from the “avalanche of angry e-mails and comments, most of them complaining that I had ignored the environmental dangers of drilling for gas, particularly the use of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a technique that involves shooting water
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Democracy For America, the grassroots Democratic PAC founded by former Vermont Gov. and Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean has come out strong against “fracking” — the process of drilling for natural gas by injecting millions of gallons of toxic chemicals deep underground to break up shale rock formations and release natural gas deposits trapped
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