The company that owns and operates the natural gas pipeline that exploded in West Virginia on Tuesday has a lengthy record of pipeline safety violations and federal enforcement actions, including several recent incidents in West Virginia, according to documents obtained by NaturalGasWatch.org. Ed. note – If you enjoy the coverage and content provided by NaturalGasWatch.org,
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If you’ve ever tried to track data about pipeline safety, you’ve probably come to the conclusion that meaningful information is often elusive, buried deep within a federal website that’s difficult to use and seemingly constructed for insiders. ProPublica, the independent, non-profit news agency that has earned a reputation as one of the nation’s primary sources
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The National Transportation Safety Board, the agency charged with investigating natural gas pipeline explosions, released some videos explaining the circumstances surrounding the notorious San Bruno blast, which killed eight and destroyed an entire neighborhood in the San Francisco suburb in September 2010. If you’ve got some time, they’re worth watching.

When all else fails, baffle ‘em with bullshit. That seems to be the gas company motto, no matter where you live. For example, in Brooklyn, New York, where about 1,100 households lost their natural gas service on Tuesday, April 17, after a 12-inch natural gas line suffered “water intrusion” after a nearby, high-pressure water line
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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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The National Transportation Safety Board tore into the Pacific Gas & Electric Co. (PG&E) yesterday, 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 Deborah Hersman also called out the California
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The California Public Utilities Commission has issued its final report on the massive natural gas explosion that killed 8 people and destroyed 38 homes in San Bruno, CA, last September, concluding that the tragedy was the result of multiple failings among the management at  Pacific Gas & Electric. The report concludes that the pipeline rupture
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New York City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer has an op-ed in today’s New York Daily News, in which he really goes out on a limb — he’s definitely against natural gas pipeline explosions. To protect, the public, he says, state, federal and local agencies all have to work together, which is why he’s proposed legislation
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By naturalgaswatch.org staff Badly corroded or cracked natural gas pipelines contributed to at least two natural gas explosions in Massachusetts in the last five years and may have contributed to as many as six more, according to a report released by the state’s Department of Public Utilities The Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities issued the
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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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