by Nelson Bailey | Feb 5, 2018 | Accidents, Pipelines
BISMARCK, N.D. — Crestwood Equity Partners has paid a $49,000 fine to the Environmental Protection Agency for a pipeline leak in 2014 that spilled 1 million gallons of produced water on the Fort Berthold Reservation in northwestern North Dakota and contaminated Lake...
by Nelson Bailey | Jan 28, 2018 | Health & Safety, Politics of energy
KIMBERLY PAYNTER / WHYY Mariner East 2 construction site in Edgemont Township, Delaware County. The federal pipeline regulator has issued a notice of probable violation to Sunoco after discovering flawed sections of pipe on a section of the route in Ohio. A section of...
by Nelson Bailey | Jan 25, 2018 | Health & Safety, Pollution - Other Sources
The Atlantic Coast Pipeline is not a “done deal” and the zoning variance Dominion Energy and its partners seek and that would destroy the hard work and dreams of the Ryan Blosser family is not a “done deal” either. The ACP, if built, will...
by Nelson Bailey | Jan 18, 2018 | Accidents, Health & Safety, Pipelines
The Rover pipeline, owned and operated by Energy Transfer Partners, has spilled 150,000 gallons of drilling fluid into wetlands near the Tuscarawas River in Stark County, Ohio. Last April, the pipeline spilled 2 million gallons in the same area. The pipeline, which...
by Nelson Bailey | Jan 17, 2018 | For Landowners, Pipelines
The Mariner East 2 pipeline project can produce a visceral reaction from people in the community — often those concerned about safety and quality of life as evidenced in vocal displays of opposition at municipal meetings and elsewhere. There’s also a contingent who...