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U.S. DOT Announces Comprehensive Proposed Rulemaking for the Safe Transportation of Crude Oil, Flammable Materials
July 31, 2014
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation today released the details of its comprehensive rulemaking proposal to improve the safe transportation of large quantities of flammable materials by rail - particularly crude oil and ethanol - in the form of a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) and a companion Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM).
The NPRM proposes enhanced tank car standards, a classification and testing program for mined gases and liquids and new operational requirements for high-hazard flammable trains (HHFT) that include braking controls and speed restrictions. Specifically, within two years, it proposes the phase out of the use of older DOT 111 tank cars for the shipment of packing group I flammable liquids, including most Bakken crude oil, unless the tank cars are retrofitted to comply with new tank car design standards. The ANPRM seeks further information on expanding comprehensive oil spill response planning requirements for shipments of flammable materials. Both the NPRM and ANPRM are available for review here and will be open for 60 days of public comment. Given the urgency of the safety issues addressed in these proposals, PHMSA does not intend to extend the comment period.
API raises bar on oil spill response
WASHINGTON, July 30 (UPI) -- The American Petroleum Institute said its new standard for equipment used in an emergency response to an oil spill resets the bar.
API Director of Standards David Miller said enhanced standards are a necessary part of the industry's efforts to coordinate with regulators on offshore oil and natural gas development.
Consumers Energy Named 'Environmental Champion' Among Energy Providers in Midwest
JACKSON, Mich., July 17, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- An independent national survey has ranked Consumers Energy as the top "environmental champion" among providers of electricity and natural gas in the Midwest.
The new survey results, released by Cogent Reports, a division of Market Strategies International, also rank Consumers Energy as the second-most trusted electric and natural gas provider in the Midwest, and third overall in the country.
Michigan officials tell Enbridge to install more support anchors beneath Great Lakes oil pipes
TRAVERSE CITY, MICH. – Two oil pipelines at the bottom the waterway linking Lakes Huron and Michigan will get additional support structures to help prevent potentially devastating spills, officials said Thursday.
Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette and Dan Wyant, director of the Department of Environmental Quality, said they had put Enbridge Energy Partners LP on notice following the company's acknowledgement it was partly out of compliance with an agreement dating to 1953, when the pipelines were laid in the Straits of Mackinac.
As a condition of an easement granted by the state, Enbridge agreed that support anchors would be placed at least every 75 feet. In a response last month to a lengthy series of questions about the condition of the lines from Schuette and Wyant, the Canadian company acknowledged some sections don't meet the requirement, although the average distance between supports is 54 feet.
Detroiter Truck Stop evacuated for nearby fuel leak
June 24, 2014
WOODHAVEN, Mich. (WJBK) - Crews in Woodhaven are responding to a Hazmat situation that's forced the evacuation of the Detroiter Truck Stop.
Emergency crews in the area tell Fox 2 there is a leak in a tank at the Buckeye Tank Farm.
More than one thousand gallons of gasoline leaked at the plant but the fire chief tells Fox 2's Maurielle Lue Woodhaven residents are not in any danger.
Monday morning, at approximately 11:30, Woodhaven police and fire jumped into action, responding to a call for what officials called a very bad spill at Michigan Fuel located inside the Buckeye Tank Farm.
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