KINDER MORGAN WATCH

Kinder Morgan assessed $1 million for Port Manatee air pollution

http://tampabay.bizjournals.com/tampabay/stories/2010/02/15/daily32.html

Kinder Morgan Port Manatee Terminal LLC agreed to plead guilty to four violations of the Clean Air Act and pay fines totaling $1 million.

As part of the plea agreement, KMPMT will pay a $750,000 criminal fine and make a $250,000 community service payment to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, according to a release from U.S. Attorney A. Brian Albritton.

1 missing in Houston tug boat accident

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/hotstories/6861837.html

By MOISES MENDOZA Copyright 2010 Houston Chronicle
Feb. 11, 2010, 1:26PM

The Coast Guard and other agencies today are continuing to search for a crew member missing from a tugboat that sank Wednesday night in the Houston Ship Channel.

Two tonnes of explosive still unaccounted for

http://www2.canada.com/northshorenews/news/story.html?id=5676faf8-fcb9-4...

James Weldon, North Shore News
Published: Friday, January 22, 2010

With the Olympics less than a month away, police still don't know the whereabouts of two tonnes of ammonium nitrate that went missing after being shipped through North Vancouver last year.

Massive oil spill case moving forward

http://www.canada.com/burnabynow/news/story.html?id=701a45b9-229f-48d3-b...

The companies involved in the July 2007 pipeline rupture that sprayed crude oil over a North Burnaby neighbourhood are expected to make an appearance in court today.

By Burnaby NowJanuary 13, 2010

The companies involved in the July 2007 pipeline rupture that sprayed crude oil over a North Burnaby neighbourhood are expected to make an appearance in court today.

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Updated: Tue Jan. 19 2010 18:05:17

ctvbc.ca

RCMP officials have intensified their investigation into two tonnes of an explosive chemical compound that went missing, CTV News has learned.

Last month, pipeline and energy storage company Kinder Morgan contacted the RCMP to say that it couldn't account for two one-tonne bags of ammonium nitrate that had been part of a 6,000-bag shipment.

Canwest News Service

Police are not convinced that two tonnes of a powerful explosive that went "missing" two weeks ago are now accounted for.

On Jan. 6, the RCMP said pipeline and energy-storing company Kinder Morgan had reported in late December a discrepancy in the inventory of the powerful explosive from a storage facility in Surrey.

The missing ammonium nitrate consisted of two one-tonne bags from a 6,000- bag shipment.

Shortly after, Kinder Morgan contacted the RCMP again to say it had been due to a "clerical error" and in fact all ammonium nitrate had been accounted for.

http://www.wsoctv.com/news/22262191/detail.html

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Firefighters responded to a major haz-mat situation at a gas tank farm in west Charlotte Sunday night.

Leaking gas caught fire at the Kinder-Morgan facility on Freedom Drive just before midnight.

It took firefighters almost an hour to keep the fire from spreading. They worked with technicians to shut off four gas valves.

No one was hurt and no gas leaked outside the plant. They’re investigating the cause, but the suspect equipment failure.

Tonnes of explosives might still be missing: RCMP

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/01/15/bc-missing-am...

RCMP in B.C. say they are still not convinced that two tonnes of a potential explosive that was believed missing in a rail shipment from Alberta to Vancouver has been accounted for.

The chemical manufacturer Kinder Morgan notified the RCMP on Jan. 6 that it had determined a clerical error was responsible for the apparent loss or theft of two one-tonne bags of ammonium nitrate.

Business as usual for Kinder Morgan. Violate the law and break out the checkbook.

Kinder Morgan fined $6,400, for air violations by the TCEQ (Texas Commission on Environmental Quality) which investigated Kinder Morgans Texas pipeline in Bee county on May 27, for failure to submit a renewal application at least six months before its expiration, obtain authorization to operate the emissions sources at the plant after the permit expired and report permit deviations within 30 days after the end of the deviation reporting period.

Canwest News Servic Published: Wednesday, January 06, 2010

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2413457

Ammonium nitrate of the type shown here has been used by the Taliban in Afghanistan to make explosives Handout photo/Department of National Defence Ammonium nitrate of the type shown here has been used by the Taliban in Afghanistan to make explosives

VANCOUVER - Two tonnes of the powerful explosive ammonium nitrate that were believed missing have now been found, RCMP Sgt. Rob Vermeulen said late Wednesday afternoon.