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 [...]

KMP Acquires Pipelines from Knight
HOUSTON, Aug 28, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P. (NYSE:KMP) today announced it has acquired two pipeline systems from Knight Inc., the private entity which owns the general partner of KMP. The purchase includes Knight’s one-third interest in the Express-Platte crude oil pipeline systems that run from Alberta [...]

(News Messenger - August 27, 2008) by Sandra Cason

No one hurt in explosion: Investigation continues into cause of pipeline failure
An investigation continues into a gas pipeline explosion that occurred shortly after 4 p.m. Tuesday near the intersection of Farm-to-Market Roads 449 and 2208.
Harrison County Fire Marshal Dennis Engdahl said members of three fire departments battled [...]

U.S. FINES TERMINAL OPERATOR FOR ILLEGAL DUMPING
August 25, 2008
Kinder Morgan Bulk Terminals Inc. has been fined $240,000 for paying a vessel master to illegally dump 160 tons of potash at sea, the Justice Department announced.
The company, which is based in Louisiana and runs a bulk terminal vessel loading facility in Portland, Ore., admitted to violating [...]

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. [...]

Jon Harding (Canwest News Service - July 02, 2008)

CALGARY — A second large shipper of oil from Canada to the United States has confirmed interest is heating up between Canadian producers and refining customers in Asia and along the United States’ West Coast.
As a result, Kinder Morgan Canada began two months ago to ramp up [...]

(CBC News - April 23, 2008)
Construction crews will soon be digging trenches and laying a major oil pipeline along the scenic route through Mount Robson Provincial Park, which covers 224,866 hectares through the B.C. portion of the Rocky Mountains.
Once the project is complete, it will allow Kinder Morgan Canada, the company building the pipeline, to [...]

Terasen suitor’s many pipelines figure in several U.S. disasters, including a very deadly one.
Kinder Morgan, the company that hopes to take over the B.C. gas utility Terasen, is “the poster child for pipeline problems,” according to Carl Weimer, executive director of the Bellingham, Washington–based Pipeline Safety Trust.
(TheTyee.ca - August 23, 2005) by Jeremy Nuttall
Weimer says [...]

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