Topic: American Gas Association
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Energy Voices California urges record $2.5 billion fine for natural gas blast
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. could face a record fine for a deadly 2010 natural gas pipeline explosion in a San Francisco suburb. Officials hope it will help prevent future accidents while some warn that rising natural gas demand is outpacing investment in energy infrastructure.
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Cybersecurity: How US utilities passed up chance to protect their networks
Cybersecurity needs are not hypothetical, as the recent DHS warning of a cyberattack on the US natural gas industry shows. Why then was a post-9/11 initiative to secure US utilities dropped?
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Gas explosion, San Bruno: how authorities will investigate it
The National Transportation Safety Board is the agency responsible for investigating pipeline accidents, and it’s likely to have a long list of questions about the gas explosion, San Bruno, Calif.
09/10/2010 07:40 pm -
Gas-pipe purging linked to seven big explosions since 1997
The cause of the explosion at the Kleen Energy natural-gas plant has yet to be determined. But a federal safety board had recently urged stronger safety codes for the process of gas-pipe purging, which was under way at the plant in Middletown, Conn.
02/08/2010 06:49 pm -
US urged new safety standards days before Middletown explosion
The US Chemical Safety Board, citing seven instances where workers died purging gas lines, released urgent new recommendations just three days before the Middletown explosion in Connecticut Sunday that killed at least five people.
02/08/2010 06:00 pm
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