by Nelson Bailey | Jan 10, 2018 | Accidents, Pipelines
Representatives from Energy Transfer Partners, the company behind the controversial Dakota Access pipeline, traveled to Cambridge, Iowa, in October to present a series of $20,000 checks to emergency management departments in six counties. The money was, in part, an...
by Nelson Bailey | Jan 7, 2018 | Economic Impacts, Pollution - Other Sources
Ryan and Joy Blosser and their two children are at risk of being robbed of their livelihood and their domestic tranquility at the point of a pen. I do not know the Blossers personally, but I was moved by their presentation at the Augusta County Board of Zoning Appeals...
by Nelson Bailey | Jan 3, 2018 | Health & Safety, Pipelines, Regulatory Permit Process
Segments of assembled pipe are lined up along a cleared section of woods where a pipeline for shale gas is under construction on July 8, 2017 in Jackson Township, Butler County, Pa (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic) Pennsylvania environmental officials have ordered Sunoco to...
by Nelson Bailey | Jan 3, 2018 | Accidents, Health & Safety, Pipelines
You may recall that, last November, our old friend the Keystone XL pipeline, the continent-spanning death funnel and longtime conservative fetish object, sprang a particularly ill-timed leak, drowning a field on the border between the two Dakotas with 210,000 gallons...
by Nelson Bailey | Jan 2, 2018 | Accidents, Fracking, Politics of energy
ShareGoogle+Email A contractor for natural gas pipeline company Kinder Morgan improperly dumped thousands of gallons in Agawam, Massachusetts. MASSLIVE / MASSLIVE.COM Originally published on December 30, 2017 4:47 pm A contractor for a natural gas pipeline company...
