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Two houses exploded in one night in San Antonio. A preliminary NTSB report found that gas had migrated underground into a home without active gas service, where no alarm was there to detect it.
Natural gas alarms can sense methane even when the odorant has been stripped, yet the federal government still doesn't require them despite NTSB recommendations dating back to the 1970s.
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Many residents are still dealing with the health effects today. CO2 pipelines are largely unregulated compared to other hazardous pipelines — and thousands of miles of new ones are being proposed across the country.
“On a first read the proposal sets hard caps on the intervals and keeps PHMSA���s enforcement authority intact, but it stops short of requiring the remote inspection we have previously recommended.”
“We don’t yet know whether PHMSA has paired the longer intervals with adequate safeguards,” said Bill Caram, the group’s executive director, in a statement.
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It is possible that after the gas line was hit that the gas migrated underground and into the apartment building, where it then reached explosive levels before igniting.
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Rupture mitigation valves could save lives. Older pipelines in High Consequence Areas should be required to be retrofitted with Rupture Mitigation Valves.
#pipelinesafety, #RMVs, #energypolicy
In 2020, Congress passed the PIPES Act of 2020, mandating that PHMSA create rules to
modernize its leak detection and repair standards as well as mitigate intentional emission events.
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While the American Petroleum Institute has finalized its RP 1192 - Transportation of Carbon Dioxide by Pipeline. It's important that communities know that it is not regulation.
We still need strong federal safety standards on CO2 pipelines to keep our communities safe.
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For decades the NTSB has recommended the installation of Natural Gas Alarms or In-Home Methane Detectors.
These devices can detect a gas leak well before it ignites and would save lives.
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