Enbridge has closed a pipeline in Illinois after a car crashed into the pipline in a Chicago suburb, killing two people and setting off a fire that burned for about three hours. The pipeline leaked for about six hours. The Chicago Tribune reported that a car crashed through a fence in New Lennox, Illinois, a Chicago […]
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US NTSB to pipeline companies: Call 911 in an emergency
June 29, 2011
It sounds obvious. In an emergency (in most of North America) dial 911. Only according a US National Transportation Safety Board Report dated June 8 and released today, Pacific Gas and Electric didn't call 911 in California at the time of a major pipeline breach and fire on Sept. 9, 2010, in San Bruno, California […]