A gas pipeline in Brooke County, West Virginia exploded into a ball
of flames marking the fourth major mishap at a U.S.
pipeline this month.
No one was hurt in the explosion, but residents reported that they could see a massive fireball shooting hundreds
of feet into the air. An emergency dispatcher reportedly told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
that the flames had melted the siding off one home and damaged at least
one power line. The gas pipeline is owned by Houston, Texas-based
Enterprise Products, L.P
On Jan. 17, a
pipeline owned by Bridger Pipeline LLC in Montana spilled up to 50,000 gallons of crude oil into the Yellowstone River, a spill that left thousands of Montanans without drinkable tap water. Just a few days later, on Jan. 22, it was discovered that 3 million gallons of saltwater drilling waste hadspilled
from a North Dakota pipeline earlier in the month. That spill was
widely deemed the state’s largest contaminant release into the
environment since the North Dakota oil boom began.
- source.://www.mintpressnews.com
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