NaturalGasWatch.org may have taken some time off for the holiday, but natural gas leaks and natural gas explosions certainly didn’t, so let’s get right to it. A natural gas pipeline exploded in Estill County, Kentucky on Monday, Jan. 2, near the the town of Irvine, Kentucky, forcing the evacuation of 35 families who lived in
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A couple of weeks ago, “Gasland” producer Josh Fox was kind enough to sit down with NaturalGasWatch.org for a wide-ranging conversation about energy, geopolitics, “Gasland II” and a bunch of other cool stuff. The original intent was to simply transcribe the recorded conversation and roll it out here in easily digestible 400-500 word chunks —
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Maybe it’s because they’re overwhelmed; maybe it’s because the information doesn’t exist. Maybe it’s because it was never filed, or it was misfiled or maybe it’s because it’s really not a high priority right now — but for whatever reason, the vast majority of public regulatory agencies charged with overseeing pipeline safety at the state
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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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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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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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Citing budget guts that have forced a drawdown in personnel, the head of Jersey City’s firefighters union said recently that first responders would be overwhelmed and unable to handle a disaster in the event of a failure of the proposed Spectra natural gas pipeline there. “Due to the economic recession and budget cuts we are
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Spectra Energy, the company seeking permission to construct a massive, new natural gas pipeline that would run between New York City and New Jersey, has been cited by federal regulators for 17 inadequacies in its pipeline safety operations and procedures. According to a June 13 Notice of Amendment from the PHMSA to Spectra, the federal
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