KINDER MORGAN WATCH

http://bluegrasspolitics.bloginky.com/2010/08/24/conway-discloses-paymen...

By Halimah Abdullah - habdullah@mcclatchydc.com

WASHINGTON — Since 2009, Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Jack Conway has accepted $263,500 in stock distribution payments from Kinder Morgan Energy, a Texas-based pipeline company that transports natural gas and petroleum products.

Kinder Morgan terminal had bad meter
Six stations got gasoline with too much ethanol

http://azstarnet.com/business/local/article_c2f4c296-eb8f-5238-b007-9545...

Tony Davis Arizona Daily Star | Posted: Saturday, July 24, 2010 12:00 am

A malfunctioning meter at a south-side gasoline storage terminal caused excessive ethanol to be delivered to five gasoline stations in Tucson and one in Bisbee in late June and early July, state regulators said.

http://tampabay.bizjournals.com/tampabay/stories/2010/06/21/daily20.html
A Tampa federal judge fined Kinder Morgan Port Manatee Terminal LLC $1 million for violating the Clean Air Act.

The company also was put on probation for two years and must adhere to an environmental compliance plan as part of a plea agreement, a release said.

Kinder Morgan was accused of failing to control particulate matter pollutants generated when granular material was loaded and unloaded at its port facility for several years.

New York Post

By JOSH KOSMAN and MARK DeCAMBRE

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/kinder_ly_raise_my_stake_xOAAOlZZm...

While private equity firms are rushing to take public every company they can -- like Nielsen and Toys "R" Us -- a $20 billion pipeline company, perhaps this era's most successful buyout, is being restrained from an IPO by owners squabbling over a $176 million piece of the company, sources said.

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9F4CK800.html
SFPP LP, a subsidiary of Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP, said on Friday that it will pay $205 million to settle rate challenges with 11 shippers.
If approved, the settlement would resolve 31 dockets involving 11 of the 12 shippers that had brought cases before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the company said.

The company said it expects FERC approval by the third quarter.

CSP Daily News, March 19, 2010

Regular Sold as Premium at 17 Ariz. Mobil Stations
Kinder Morgan notified state officials; fines, if any, not determined yet

http://www.cspnet.com/ME2/Audiences/dirmod.asp?sid=&nm=&type=Publishing&...

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.