Spectra Energy, the company that is currently constructing a large, high-pressure natural gas transmission pipeline between New Jersey and lower Manhattan, allegedly put off critical repairs and maintenance to its natural gas transmission system in Pennsylvania for more than four years, from July 2008 to August 2012, even though the company’s own testing indicated a
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A few weeks ago, a group of protesters affiliated with Occupy the Pipeline managed to gain access to the construction site at Gansevoort and the Hudson Parkway, where a massive new natural gas pipeline that will run from New Jersey into lower Manhattan is being laid, and blocked construction of the project for more than
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Williams Partners L.P., the owner/operator of the natural gas compressor station that exploded yesterday in northeastern Pennsylvania has a history of serious natural gas pipeline safety violations, according to records obtained by NaturalGasWatch.org. The federal Pipeline and Hazardous Material Safety Administration (PHMSA) issued a Corrective Action Order to Williams Partners on Dec. 6, 2011, in
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The Spectra Energy company could build a controversial natural gas pipeline through the heart of one of the world’s busiest transportation hubs regardless of the New York-New Jersey Port Authority’s concerns about public safety and other matters, an agency official said this morning. Kenneth Swann, a New York-New Jersey Port Authority Deputy Program Director who
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In a letter filed today with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the Port Authority of New York/New Jersey laid out a series of concerns the agency said remain unaddressed and could ultimately scuttle the agency’s support for the proposed Spectra Energy natural gas pipeline project. “Should FERC’s ultimate recommendation on final pipeline alignment and certification
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A study of the drinking water in Wyoming released by the federal Environmental Protection Agency yesterday directly connects hydraulic fracturing — or fracking, as it has come to be known in the parlance of our times — by the natural gas industry to water contamination there. From the EPA’s press release: EPA constructed two deep
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When it comes to the federal government, it sometimes seems as if the right hand doesn’t know what the left is doing. A case in point: the massive new natural gas pipeline that Spectra Energy has proposed to build through New Jersey and under the Hudson River, into lower Manhattan, where it would bring shale
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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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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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