Pipeline Break in Montana : The Yellowstone River Is Something We’ll Probably Miss Why do pipelines break? Because they’re pipelines, that’s why.  The Pipeline Hazardous Materials Safety Administration confirmed the location of the break, but couldn’t say whether the 12-inch diameter Bridger pipeline, which began releasing oil into the river Saturday, lay bare on the river bottom.  Not only that, but this is the second crack that oil has had at fouling this particular river. In 2011, when an exposed oil pipeline ruptured at the bottom of the Yellowstone River near Laurel , the pipe was assumed to be buried well under the riverbed. It was later determined that an unusually high river flow had scoured several feet of rock cover leaving the pipeline vulnerable. Pipelines are state of the […]

“We always suspected he was working for the interests of polluters rather than the people of Pennsylvania,” she says. “Now he just has the title to prove it.”http://stateimpact.npr.org/pennsylvania/2015/01/23/corbetts-top-energy-adviser-hired-by-gas-industry/ January 23, 2015 | 4:46 PM By Marie Cusick Marie Cusick/ StateImpact Pennsylvania Patrick Henderson served as Governor Corbett’s Energy Executive. He will now be Director of Regulatory Affairs for the Marcellus Shale Coalition. Less than a week after Governor Corbett left office, his top energy adviser has accepted a new job with Pennsylvania’s largest gas industry trade group, the Marcellus Shale Coalition. Patrick Henderson, who made $145,000 a year as Corbett’s Energy Executive, will now become the MSC’s Director of Regulatory Affairs. “These are truly exciting times within the energy industry,” Henderson wrote in an email to StateImpact Pennsylvania. “I very […]