pipeline spills

The city does not pull any of their drinking water out of the reservoir, it all comes from wells. And we had some concerns about the last time we had a spill with the drinking water that was a concern. It wasn't a concern then and it's not a concern now," said Albany Sewer System Superintendent Jeff Hughes.

Saskatchewan prosecutors are “wrapping up” the probe to determine whether Husky Energy Inc. will face charges following the 2016 pipeline spill in the North Saskatchewan River, according to the province's environment minister. The provincial government turned its report on the 225,000-litre spill over to ...

WASHINGTON—Marathon Pipe Line, a unit of Marathon Petroleum Corp. (NYSE: MPC), has agreed to pay $335,000 in federal, state and civil penalties to resolve Clean Water Act violations stemming from a 2016 spill in the Wabash River, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said on March 22.

Today is the third day of clean-up efforts in Posey County after a diesel fuel spill in Big Creek. A Marathon spokesperson says they have found the source of the leak on a pipeline that dumped 42,000 gallons of fuel into the creek. He says recovery efforts are ongoing. Local environmental groups say those ...

Forty-two thousand gallons of diesel spilled from a Marathon Petroleum Corporation pipeline into Big Creek in Posey Creek, Indiana before the leak was ... In 2016, Undark reported that there had been more than 1,300 crude oil spills from pipelines in the U.S. since 2010, averaging one every other day.

... put forward Senate Bill 163 in the wake of November's 210,000-gallon crude oil leak from TransCanada's Keystone Pipeline – South Dakota's largest Keystone oil spill to date – three miles southeast of Amherst. SB 163 failed in committee, as did two other 2018 measures seeking to regulate pipelines.

Roughly 1,000 barrels or 42,000 gallons of diesel have spilled from a Marathon Petroleum pipeline in southwest Indiana, and is currently affecting Big Creek near Solitude, Ind. The agencies on scene were working Wednesday to determine a more precise measure, according to on-scene coordinator Kevin ...

However, the technical analysis prepared by the tribe charges that current remote-detection systems "cannot detect leaks that are less than 2 percent of the full pipeline flow rate." That sort of leak, assuming a pipeline production rate of 600,000 bbs (barrels of oil) per day, could amount to 12,000 bbs/day of ...

The tribe also questioned the company's worst-case spill estimate and faulted Energy Transfer Partners for failing to provide a detailed emergency ... The leak detection system used by Energy Transfer Partners can't detect leaks that are less than 2 percent of the full pipeline flow rate, according to the report ...

The North Dakota Department of Health is responding to a pipeline leak that spilled about 200 barrels, or 8,400 gallons, of produced water in Divide County. USG Bakken Midstream, an affiliate of NextEra Energy Resources, reported the spill that was discovered Sunday about 3 miles north of Fortuna in far ...