KINDER MORGAN WATCH

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By Tom Beyerlein

Staff Writer

Sunday, September 14, 2008

The Rockies Express Pipeline to the White House

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By Tom Beyerlein
Staff Writer
Sunday, September 14, 2008

It sounded like the roar of a jet engine as the torrent of highly pressurized natural gas rushed out of the ruptured pipeline, stirring up a dust storm that choked the air. Then came a fireball that could be seen from 30 miles away, with temperatures reaching 3,000 degrees. When the blaze finally subsided, one witness said, the work site near Cheyenne, Wyo., looked like the surface of the moon.

Near the burnt husk of a bulldozer lay the charred body of Bobby Ray Owens, his arms raised to his face in a futile defensive posture.

One more felony for Kinder Morgan; Axing endangered species

Stratton Lawrence
Staff Writer- Charleston City Paper

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Kinder Morgan, the ginormous energy transportation company that imports coal into Charleston harbor, was found guilty this week of a felony for knowingly dumping potash off the coast of Portland, Oregon. After covering it up for years, they were charged in April and have now been found guilty.

One year ago this week, an accident ruptured a pipeline in North Burnaby and sent nearly a quarter of a million litres of crude oil spurting over homes and into Burrard Inlet. Below, in the first part of a special report, reporter Brooke Larsen looks at the impact of the spill a year later.

Burnaby Now
Published: Wednesday, July 23, 2008

A year after a massive oil spill wreaked havoc on Inlet Drive, investigators aren't saying what went wrong.

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Are the feds letting a major Port polluter off easy?

http://wweek.com/editorial/3440/11374/

BY JAMES PITKIN | jpitkin at wweek dot com

[August 13th, 2008]

Five years after Houston-based energy giant Kinder Morgan paid a ship captain at the Port of Portland to illegally dump material at sea, a judge is set to fine the company $240,000 for violating environmental rules.

But at a sentencing hearing scheduled Wednesday, Aug. 13, that prosecutors and company officials say should end the long-running case, the original whistleblower plans to tell U.S. District Court Judge Garr King that the government’s deal with Kinder Morgan is a whitewash.

An underground gas line punctured by construction workers spilled more than 19,000 gallons of diesel this afternoon in Indio, shutting down a stretch of Indio Boulevard and Union Pacific Railroad service, fire officials said.
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Indio Boulevard, between Madison and Jefferson streets is expected to be closed, for up to 10 hours for cleanup following the 1 p.m. spill, Indio Police Spokesman Ben Guitron said.

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Bad gasoline stalls Valley motorists
Diesel fuel mix wrongly shipped from tank farm, sold as regular unleaded.

By James Guy / The Fresno Bee
05/09/08

Tainted gasoline sold at Central Valley stations stalled vehicle engines Friday and left some motorists scrambling to find a shop for weekend repairs.

Drivers who purchased unleaded regular from about 16 stations in a 50-mile radius around Fresno ended up with gasoline that was inadvertently mixed with diesel fuel at a tank farm operated by Kinder Morgan at Central and Maple avenues.

PAUL & SUGERMAN, PC.

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This news article seems so appropriate for an Earth Day item. The U.S. Attorney in Oregon announced a major victory in a case against a tenant of our own local port. That’s right. The port, a public body, leases a portion of the Port of Portland to a company called Kinder Morgan.

Kinder Morgan imports and exports stuff. Tons of stuff. Stuff that gets in the river but should go to toxic waste dumps. Stuff that accumlates in piles. Stuff like potassium chloride or potash.

http://www.indeed.com/forum/cmp/Kinder-Morgan