Sentences with phrase «of pipeline failure»
«Corrosion is one of the top causes of pipeline failures, and we're committed to investing in innovative technologies that will strengthen our nation's pipeline system well into the future.»
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The failure of the green agenda so far has had the unintended consequence of focusing opposition on the pipelines.
Opinion: The Kinder Morgan pipeline battle doesn't represent a failure of democracy, federalism, or the rule of law — it's the system doing what it's meant to do
«The takeaway from it is that even though the technology is getting better and pipeline companies are spending a lot more money on inspecting pipelines, there's been an uptick in failures over the last decade,» said Carl Weimer, executive director of the Pipeline Safety Trust, a Bellingham, Washington - based watchdog group.
The mounting failures of various TransCanada pipelines do not surprise Evan Vokes, former TransCanada materials engineer - turned - whistleblower.
Sakhalin 1 (Far East LNG): Rosneft's failure to gain third - party access to the Trans - sakhalin pipeline, owned by Gazprom, to move gas to the liquefaction facility and the impact of sanctions on Rosneft's relationship with ExxonMobil means that a decision on the $ 15 billion Far Eastern LNG plant (5 mtpa) will probably be delayed by at least two years.
What investor, looking at the train - wreck failure of recent pipeline regulatory processes in Canada, would put their dollars down on Canada when only a few hundred kilometres to the south there are vastly more profitable (and vastly more predictable) investment opportunities.
Jean blames Alberta's lack of pipelines on Notley's «failure to aggressively advocate for critical pipeline projects» thereby threatening «Alberta's long - term economic prosperity.»
Given the failure of the pipeline for conventional antibiotics, scientists have been looking at the bacteria - killing potential of other classes of compounds.
We aim to evaluate as many potential applications of our technology as possible in the early, more affordable phases of our candidate - generating pipeline in order to better manage risk and the costs of failure.
Awarded annually, the grants are used to strengthen a state's efforts in addressing pipeline failures attributed to activities such as excavation damage, one of the leading causes of pipeline accidents resulting in fatality or injury.
Awarded annually, the grants are used to strengthen efforts in addressing pipeline failures attributed to activities such as excavation damage, one of the leading causes of pipeline accidents resulting in fatality or injury.
There are three major causes of significant pipeline failures resulting in oil spills or gas explosion: damage from digging; corrosion; and failure of the pipe material, welds, or equipment.
Secretary LaHood was joined by the U.S. Department of Transportation's Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administrator Cynthia Quarterman, Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey, Congressman Charlie Dent and other federal, state and local officials to unveil the Department's new pipeline safety action plan in Allentown, where a devastating natural gas pipeline failure killed five people and leveled homes and businesses on February 9.
In this rulemaking action, PHMSA is amending the pipeline safety regulations to improve protection of the public, property, and the environment by closing regulatory gaps where appropriate, and ensure that operators increase the detection and remediation of unsafe conditions and mitigate the adverse effects of hazardous liquid pipeline failures.
Among the violations alleged are the operator's failure to meet record - keeping requirements and ensure the integrity of above - ground breakout tanks, failing to inspect and maintain cathodic protection systems used to control corrosion, and a failure to correctly determine maximum operating pressure for multiple pipeline systems.
The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) proposed civil penalties totaling $ 202,900 and issued a Notice of Probable Violation and a Proposed Compliance Order to National Fuel Gas Supply Corporation after concluding its investigation into the March 6, 2015 natural gas pipeline failure at the operator's Beech Hill Compressor Station near Wellsville, New York.
Providing a «pipeline» for the dirtiest of fossil fuels opens a valve which essentially assures failure.....
According to experts in the failure of oil and gas pipelines, there are a handful of factors that can contribute to a pipeline rupture, like the one on Exxon Mobil's Pegasus pipeline that spilled toxic diluted bitumen or dilbit from the Canadian tar sands into a Mayflower, Arkansas lake and subdivision.
According to experts in the failure of oil and gas pipelines, there are a handful of factors that can contribute to a pipeline rupture, like the one in Mayflower, Arkansas.
-LSB-...] focuses on the growth of fossil fuel production in America under Obama and the President's waffling on the Keystone XL pipeline as his biggest climate failures.
A new report from Oil Change International concludes the U.S. is currently building unneeded fracked - gas pipelines as a result of FERC's regulatory failures, including its failure to police self - dealing.
Who cares about 8 % unemployment, the flatlined economy, abandoning Americans to die in Bengahzi, Joe Biden's buffonery, fast & furious, national debt, USA credit downgrade, trillion dollar annual budget deficits, deliberate sabotage of the coal industry, ACORN, failed foreign policy (Iran with nuclear weapons, bowing to China, stiffing U.K and Israel, etc) abysmal people judgement (Biden again, plus H. Clinton, T, Geithner; K. Sebelius; E. Holder, etc), stopping the pipeline for Canadian oil, blocking drilling in US land, secret «kill lists», ObamaCare, attacking religious liberty, you didn't build that, unseemly chest - pounding over bin Laden (GM is dying but bin Laden is coming back to life), 20 years of Jeremiah Wright, failure of crony capitalism deals with Solyndra - NextEra — Ener1 — Solar Trust etc., over 100 rounds of golf in 1st 3 yrs, choom, the Chevy Volt, insisting the Ft Hood massacre was «workplace violence», secret college transcripts, «clearly the Boston police acted stupidly», disregard of the Simpson - Bowles budget recommendations (after commissioning their work), and lots more irrelevant stuff.
But officials from Pertamina, the Indonesian state oil company, have come forward to say the spill was caused by the failure of a pipeline beneath the bay.
If anyone has more definitive information on this pipeline, or the precise location of the failure, please share!
Whether or not global warming is entirely or largely due to human use of carbon for fuel, the reduction of the dependence on carbon makes sense for reducing asthma in children; reducing black lung disease; reducing the production of coal ashes, residues, and effluents; reducing the impact of carbon greenhouse gasses; reducing pipeline failures; reducing coal and oil surface transport accidents; reducing pipeline - related warfare; and reducing air pollution.
However, many prominent environmental activists are also quick to cite the «failures» of Obama's first term, including, in their estimation, the collapse of the 2009 cap - and - trade bill in the U.S. Senate and the ongoing review (instead of cancellation) of the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada.
More damning evidence against Enbridge over the Michigan pipeline failure back in 2010, that spilled tar sands oil in the Kalamazoo river: The Detroit Free Press reports that the chair of the National Transportation Safety Board says Enbridge knew about the very problem that led to the spill five years beforehand and did nothing about it.
Successfully represented an oil and gas pipeline construction company in obtaining the abatement of Internal Revenue Service penalties of $ 1.05 M relating to the client's failure to pay employment taxes.
Coldwater argued that the failure to consider the «west - alternative» to the new pipeline route was an error of both the NEB and Cabinet.
Look for the failure of the Trudeau Liberals to obtain consent from all the 133 Indigenous nations affected by pipeline expansion (40 have signalled support) to be decisive in however many court battles it takes for B.C. Indigenous Nations to stop the Trans Mountain project.
Senior public servants warned the Trudeau government in 2016 of concerns that its consultations with First Nations on the Trans Mountain expansion pipeline were «moving fast» — comparing the process to mistakes that led to the failure of another west coast pipeline, says a newly - released internal email.