Sentences with phrase «pipeline incidents»

The Cuomo administration is too reliant on gas - line operators to self - report mishaps or incidents, and as a result, the state DPS was not properly notified of six gas - related pipeline incidents in 2015 alone, the audit found.

Although excavation and pipeline damage is the foremost cause of pipeline incidents, it is also the most preventable.

The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) estimates that about one in seven pipeline incidents nationally is caused by internal corrosion.

Excavation damage is the leading cause of serious pipeline incidents and has led to injuries, environmental damage, and even death.

Several other cities have also recently experienced pipeline incidents, including the environmentally devastating rupture in Marshall, MI, and the deadly San Bruno, CA, explosion which highlighted the need for pipeline operators to accelerate the repair, rehabilitation, and replacement of their highest risk lines.

The public forum will address several recent pipeline incidents that revealed firefighters and other emergency responders in some communities may not have the information they need to adequately prepare to respond to significant natural gas and hazardous liquid pipeline emergencies.

This time - lapse video shows pipeline incidents from 1986 to 2013, relying on publicly available data from the federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration.

«PHMSA tracks the root causes of pipeline incidents, and in no case does PHMSA show that diluted bitumen was the cause of any accident,» said a spokesman from the Association of Oil Pipe Lines.

«The pipeline incident in Saskatchewan in Saskatchewan was one where the ground shifted and it caused the pipeline to fail, so I'd be surprised if there was any ground shifting involved in this one,» Peabody said.

In the last 20 years, there almost 200 pipeline incidents, which killed 23 people, injured 123 others and caused $ 77 million in property.

Given the 3 major spills and the over 600 pipeline incidents that hit Alberta's aging pipeline network every year the groups thought an independent review was a good way to get answers to Alberta's pipeline problems.