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 | Feb 1, 2018 | Accidents, Fossil Fuels
Noble County, OH — First responders were on the scene of a pipeline explosion and fire in Noble County early Wednesday morning. Officials say the incident happened around 2:30 a.m. about 3 miles north of Summerfield along State Route 513. The pipeline has been...
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 22, 2018 | Health & Safety, Natural Gas
Five people were missing Monday after an explosion at an Oklahoma drilling rig sent plumes of black smoke into the sky, emergency officials said. The drilling rig in Quinton, about 100 miles southeast of Tulsa, exploded just before 9 a.m. while about two dozen people...
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...
