Day: December 17, 2018

Months After Massachusetts Gas Explosions, Normalcy Far Off Philip Marcelo | The Tribune Some Massachusetts homeowners and small businesses are still struggling to return to normalcy after September’s dramatic gas pipeline explosions, even as the utility responsible says the vast majority of customers have heat and hot water again. Columbia Gas said this week that …

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Michigan Utilities Target Aging Natural Gas Distribution Lines for Upgrades Andy Balaskovitz | Energy News In Michigan’s two largest cities, 35 miles of natural gas distribution lines were installed before Theodore Roosevelt was president. Thousands of additional miles of these decades-old bare steel and cast iron gas distribution networks are in need of upgrades, state …

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Woman Dies in NC Mountains After Oxygen Cut off in Power Outage WNCT Clean-up from this weekend’s winter storm has been nonstop in Western North Carolina. At Polk County High School on Monday, the volunteers with American Red Cross were moving people who were staying at the shelter inside the high school over to the …

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Rebecca Yerger Memory Lane: A near Disaster in the 1950s Rebecca Yerger | Napa Valley Register The utility services of Napa received their fair share of local media coverage in the 1950s newspapers. Some of these mid-20th century reports detailed positive advancements in the local infrastructure, but other local news accounts detailed sensational stories about …

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Regulators Accuse California Utility PG&E of Falsifying Records on Natural Gas Pipelines KSBY Regulators on Friday accused one of California’s largest utilities of falsifying safety documents for natural gas pipelines for years following its criminal conviction and multimillion-dollar fine for a pipeline explosion that killed eight people near San Francisco. The California Public Utilities Commission …

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Enbridge to Remove Existing Line 3 from Tribal Lands If New Pipeline Is Built Joe Bowen | Duluth News Tribune An aging oil pipeline is set to be removed from tribal lands east of Bemidji. Enbridge Inc. agreed with Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe leaders to remove the company’s existing Line 3 oil pipeline from …

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20 Years Ago: Gas Explosion in St. Cloud Killed Four, Led to Safety Changes Kirsti Marohn | MPR News On a sunny Friday morning on Dec. 11, 1998, a construction crew was installing fiber-optic cable near the Stearns County courthouse in downtown St. Cloud when they struck a natural gas line, triggering a leak. About …

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Internet Outage Stretches into Day 2 Mark Noack | Mountain View Voice If the internet is the lifeblood of Mountain View, then the city is in bad shape. Much of Mountain View is facing the second day of a citywide internet outage affecting Comcast customers. The outage, which started on Sunday afternoon, Dec. 9, is …

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‘Gas Leak’ Brings Utility to Millville for Drill Joseph P. Smith | Vineland Daily Journal A natural gas leak that could have affected 4,000 homes here was sorted out in under an hour Tuesday morning with no harm and no worry because the “leak” was just a drill. South Jersey Gas staged and led the …

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