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Pipeline Infrastructure Struggles To Keep Up With Oil And Gas Boom
Stephanie Joyce / WPR/Inside EnergyThe “pig trap” for a pipeline at a tank farm in Guernsey, Wyoming. In the first quarter of 2014, the United States surpassed both Russia and Saudi Arabia as the...
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Half Century Old Pipelines Carry Oil And Gas Load
Thousands of miles of new pipeline are going into the ground across the U.S. to accommodate the current oil and gas boom, Inside Energy’s Stephanie Joyce reports. But as we build new pipeline, we are...
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Leaky Barrels, German U-Boats And 2.6 Million Miles Of Pipe
There’s an invisible network connecting every corner of the United States. Without it, cars wouldn’t start and lights wouldn’t turn on. At 2.6 million miles, if it were stretched out, it would reach...
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As Pipelines Multiply, Pigs Are Paramount
The pipeline tool known as a pig is versatile. In the 1971 James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever, Bond used a pig to blow up a pipeline. In the 1987 Bond film The Living Daylights, defecting Soviet spy...
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Pipeline Across Your Land? Collective Bargaining Helps
There’s a huge, mostly invisible web of pipelines crisscrossing the country that make it possible for our stoves to light and our cars to turn on. Those pipelines run from oil and gas producing regions...
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Communities Fight Gas Industry to Keep Pipelines Off Their Land
Michelle JohnsenIn January, protesters of the Atlantic Sunrise pipeline were arrested in Conestoga, Pennsylvania. Communities are turning to new tactics to keep oil and gas pipelines off their lands....
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Pipeline Building Boom Raises Safety Concerns
Keith Srakocic / APA first responder walks by smoldering wood and a burning retaining wall near a home following a natural gas explosion at a pipeline complex, on Friday, April 29, 2016, in Salem...
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Protesters Say Pipelines Are Dangerous. Are They?
Demonstrators protested all around the country in November, in opposition to a controversial crude oil pipeline, with chants like, “We stand with Standing Rock,” and, “Water is life.” The Standing...
View ArticleNebraska landowners revive fight against Keystone XL
Jeanne Crumly’s introduction to the Keystone XL oil pipeline came seven years ago. That’s when she learned the 36-inch pipe could someday carry up to 830,000 barrels of heavy crude through her land...
View ArticleTimeline: Colorado’s Oil & Gas Explosion Problem
Back-to-back oil and gas explosions and three deaths have Colorado’s Front Range communities on edge. This timeline lays out the many years of events leading up to these accidents. For more on the home...
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