In April, Brigham McCown delivered the opening keynote at the 2017 Pipeline Safety Conference in San Antonio, Texas. To read the whole speech, please click here: PSC 2017 As Delieverd
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The federal government ordered a halt to work on a $3.8 billion four-state oil pipeline in the Upper Midwest on Friday, handing a temporary victory to the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and other opponents of the project. The unusual move by three federal agencies immediately followed a federal judge’s ruling denying an injunction sought by …
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A victory for the Standing Rock Sioux and environmentalists came Friday, as the government called for a pause in work on the Dakota Access pipeline. The announcement came shortly after a federal judge had ruled that construction could continue. “We don’t know what the implications are, other than that it’s going to have a huge …
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With the U.S. government siding in favor of Native American protests against a key North Dakota pipeline, local oil producers and shippers are facing the possibility of greater delays in getting a quick route to ship oil to the Gulf of Mexico. On Friday, following ongoing protests from environmentalists and Native American tribes, the U.S. …
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Whether at a crowded airport, in a car without a charger, or at a sporting event, we all know the dreaded feeling of a dead phone and the resulting lack of connectedness. According to a recent report from the Wall Street Journal, that feeling of helplessness may soon be a thing of the past as …
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Originally posted on LA Times. When the Obama administration imposed new safety rules on oil trains last week, the railroad industry said its goal was to have zero accidents in the future. It took only a few days to miss that difficult target. A BNSF train hauling 109 tank cars derailed in rural North Dakota …
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Originally posted on MinnPost. Repercussions from yesterday’s oil train derailment in North Dakota. Don Davis of the Forum News Service reports, “A North Dakota oil train derailment reinforces the fact that Minnesota legislators have a week and a half left in their 2015 session but have not settled on what they would do to improve …
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Originally posted on The Daily Caller. The recent derailment of a BNSF Railway train near a small town in North Dakota has reignited the debate over railcar safety — a debate which has sparked contentious new rules governing oil tank cars. But new regulations for oil tank cars don’t actually solve the problems of train …
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Published on Fuel Fix. During the preceding decade, adoption of renewable technologies experienced rapid growth. This advancement is in response to new technologies, available energy storage, policy changes, and greater investment in renewable sources. Renewables, solar and wind power especially, have far surpassed coal and natural gas in industry growth. According to an article in …
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Featured on Los Angeles Times. Four accidents in the last month involving trains hauling crude oil across North America have sent flames shooting hundreds of feet into the sky, leaving some experts worried that public safety risks have been gravely underestimated. Crude trains have crashed in Illinois, West Virginia and twice in Ontario, Canada, forcing …
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