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PG&E Executive Resigns in Wake of Calif. Pipeline Blast

SAN FRANCISCO -- Pacific Gas & Electric Corp.'s top executive is stepping down with a $35 million retirement package following a "challenging year" that included a gas pipeline explosion in a San Francisco suburb that killed eight and destroyed 38 homes, the company announced Thursday. Chairman, chief executive and...

Could a Pipeline Explode in Your Community?

The apparent gas line explosion in Allentown, Pa., that killed five people is certain to refocus attention to the 2 million miles of natural gas pipelines that lie under neighborhoods and subdivisions from coast to coast. The Allentown explosion came three weeks after a gas main explosion in Philadelphia killed one person...

Explosion Rocks Egypt Gas Terminal

EL-ARISH, Egypt - An explosion went off in a gas terminal in Egypt's northern Sinai Peninsula on Saturday, setting off a massive fire that was contained by shutting off the flow of gas to neighboring Jordan and Egypt, officials and witnesses said. An Egyptian gas company official said the fire was caused by a gas leak....

Thieves Set Off Mexico Pipeline Blast: Could It Happen in US?

In the wake of an oil pipeline explosion in Mexico that killed 28 people and sent hundreds fleeing their homes after thieves tried to siphon crude oil, oil safety experts said a similar disaster is unlikely but could nevertheless happen in the United States. They said that if thieves were determined to steal oil from a...

Mexican City Devastated by Pipeline Blast; 28 Die

SAN MARTIN TEXMELUCAN, Mexico -- A massive oil pipeline explosion lay waste to parts of a central Mexican city Sunday, incinerating people, cars, houses and trees as gushing crude turned streets into flaming rivers. At least 28 people were killed, 13 of them children, in a disaster authorities blamed on oil thieves. The...

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THE HUFFINGTON POST

Proposed North Dakota Pipeline May Be Scrapped

A Colorado company says its proposed $650 million pipeline that would move 150,000 barrels of North Dakota crude daily to a hub in Minnesota is at risk of being scrapped.

THE HUFFINGTON POST - LOCAL

CO Supreme Court Rules Against Pipeline Company

The Colorado Supreme Court has ruled that a Wyoming pipeline company has no right to condemn property in Colorado for a high-pressure petroleum pipeline to a Commerce City refinery that homeowners complained would be too dangerous.

THE HUFFINGTON POST - BUSINESS

Feds Release MI Oil Spill Investigation Documents

MARSHALL, Mich. Federal officials have released photographs and 5,000 pages of documents related to the pipeline rupture in southwestern Michigan that polluted the Kalamazoo River and a tributary creek nearly two years ago.

THE HUFFINGTON POST - BUSINESS

Nebraska Hearings On Keystone Pipeline Route Draw Big Crowd

ALBION, Neb. Nebraska's hearings on the new proposed route for TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline from Canada are drawing big crowds.

THE HUFFINGTON POST

Northern Gateway Oil Pipeline: Canada's Government Looks To Silence Enbridge Opposition

Some opponents of the proposed C$5.5 billion ($5.5 billion) Northern Gateway oil pipeline to Canada's Pacific Coast may not get a chance to be heard as scheduled by the regulatory panel looking at the plan because of federal government moves to streamline the country's environmental review process.

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05/31/12 Pipeline project starts in Bethel Park Source: Pittsburgh Business Times - Pittsburgh PA Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania Inc. has embarked on a $2.1 million project to improve its pipeline system in Bethel Park. The utility is planning to replace 12,500 feet of steel pipe with new plastic pipe in the following areas: Pickwick Drive, Graeser Avenue, Spartan Drive, Cambridge Road, Church Road, Milford Drive, Wyncote Road, Strathmore Lane, Santa Barbara Drive and Bethel Church Road. The work should be done by Nov. 30.
05/31/12 Transco Pipeline announces open season for Dalton... Source: PennWell Publishing Williams Partners L.P. (NYSE: WPZ ) announced today that it is initiating a non-binding open season from May 30 to June 28, 2012, for an expansion of its Transco interstate pipeline to provide incremental firm natural gas transportation capacity to markets in northern Georgia and Alabama by 2016.
05/31/12 Nebraska high court won't take up pipeline case Source: The Joplin Globe - Joplin MO The Nebraska Supreme Court has refused to hear a direct challenge to the state's new pipeline siting law.
05/31/12 Enbridge sinks millions into ad campaign Source: Prince George Citizen Enbridge is spending nearly $5 million on an ad campaign in support of its Northern Gateway pipeline project.
05/31/12 Proposed North Dakota Pipeline May Be Scrapped Source: The Huffington Post A Colorado company says its proposed $650 million pipeline that would move 150,000 barrels of North Dakota crude daily to a hub in Minnesota is at risk of being scrapped.