by Nelson Bailey | May 23, 2017 | Accidents, Fossil Fuels
BISMARCK, N.D. — The Dakota Access pipeline system leaked more than 100 gallons of oil in North Dakota in two separate incidents in March – the second and third known leaks discovered as crews prepared the disputed $3.8 billion pipeline for operation. Two...
by Nelson Bailey | May 20, 2017 | Accidents, Pipelines
The Rover pipeline is in trouble again, this time for storm water overflows on farm fields along its construction route. In a statement released Friday, Rover Pipeline officials responded to complaints from Ohio farmers regarding overflows that the company said are...
by Nelson Bailey | May 18, 2017 | Accidents, Pipelines
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has curtailed work on a natural-gas pipeline in Ohio after the owner, Energy Transfer Partners, reported 18 leaks and spilled more than 2 million gallons of drilling materials. The pipeline regulator blocked Energy Transfer...
by Nelson Bailey | May 15, 2017 | Accidents, Pipelines
On the morning of April 29, people near Greensburg opened their Facebook pages to a fiery reminder. The app’s “memory” algorithm picked up on the buzz created by images of an orange sky above Salem Township and asked users if they wanted to repost them on the one-year...
by Nelson Bailey | Apr 28, 2017 | Accidents, Health & Safety, Pipelines
In this exclusive video, taken by local activist and resident, Mitch Allen, Sabal Pipeline construction workers are seen excavating over one-thousand feet of pipeline in Wetland 034A (labeled in this FERC map) in Polk County and placing geotextile pipeline weights (or...
by Nelson Bailey | Apr 21, 2017 | Accidents, Pipelines
The Rover pipeline spilled an estimated 2 million gallons of drilling fluid pollutants into wetlands “adjacent to” the Tuscarawas River in Navarre, Ohio, last week, according to a notice of violation filed by the Ohio EPA. Another 50,000 gallons of fluid...
