A few weeks ago, the National Transportation Safety Board issued a preliminary report ripping the Pacific Gas & Electric Co. (PG&E) and citing decades of mismanagement as the probable cause of the massive natural gas explosion that killed eight people and destroyed an entire neighborhood in San Bruno, CA, on Sept. 9, 2010. NTSB Chairperson
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Even as Maine Gov. Paul LePage says he’s looking to expand the use of natural gas in the state, one of Maine’s largest natural gas transmission pipeline operators has been cited for a potentially serious pipeline safety violation by a federal regulatory agency. Specifically, the federal Pipeline Hazards and Materials Safety Administration cited the Portland
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The recently concluded shale gas conference in Denver, Colorado, was a two-day journey deep into the heart of the hydraulic fracturing industry, filled with highly technical presentations on aspects of a business that normally are not meant for public viewing. Organized and presented by Marcus Evans, the “Enhancing Shale Oil & Gas Development Strategies” conference
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Last week, on the one-year anniversary of the San Bruno explosion, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission released it’s draft Environmental Impact Statement on the massive new natural gas pipeline that Spectra Energy proposes to build between New Jersey and New York City. To date, most of the opposition to the project has been coming from
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The shale gas industry has had its collective ass kicked, and kicked hard, by Gasland and others opposed to hydraulic fracturing and needs to redefine its core messages to defuse a burgeoning negative public perception of the controversial drilling technique, the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Colorado Oil & Gas Association (COGA) said
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On the one-year anniversary of the San Bruno natural gas explosion, which killed 8 people and destroyed an entire neighborhood, natural gas leaks and natural gas explosions continue to occur with alarming regularity around the country. A natural gas explosion leveled a Long Island, New York, home around 1 a.m. on the morning of Wednesday,
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Clearly, the members of the Omaha’s Metropolitan Utility District are willing to gamble with the public safety when it comes to natural gas infrastructure. Currently, Omaha’s natural gas infrastructure is updated and maintained by workers from the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 1521. They have an exceptional safety record to date and members must
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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission will probably give preliminary approval today to a massive new natural gas pipeline that would run between New Jersey and New York City. Shortly before 9 a.m. this morning, FERC issued a notice saying that the draft Environmental Impact Statement evaluating the project, to be built by Spectra Energy, has
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So on Wednesday, the National Transportation Safety Board releases its report detailing its investigation into last year’s natural gas explosion in San Bruno. The document is devastating to PG&E, citing the utility for a culture of mismanagement and and an overall lackadaisical approach to pipeline safety issues. And 24 hours after that report came out,
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