Because it is not a qliche, below is a list of U.S. #Pipeline incidents / #accidents / #spills resulting in 2014 alone. And they want to add more lines carrying a pervasive toxin? Is saying #NoKXL enough with all of the other projects that have been proposed or are already underway - including a foreign companies use of eminent domain in the state of Nebraska? [ boldnebraska.org/transcanada-files-eminent-domain-claims-on-nebraska-landowners/ ] [ Data Source for incidents is here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pipeline_accidents_in_the_United_States_in_the_21st_century#2000s ---starting with the year 2000]. If you have verifiable data for incidents not listed, you are requested to do so at the above link. The list for 2015 is already underway [as you can see following the link to the aforementioned page] *2014* • A 12-inch PSNC gas transmission pipeline exploded and burned in Asheville, North Carolina on January 10. The cause was that the pipeline was damaged during installation in 2003. There were no injuries, but, the costs of property damage was around $825,000.[462] • On February 10, a gas pipeline exploded and burned near Tioga, North Dakota. There were no injuries.[463] • A 30-inch diameter Columbia Gulf Transmission gas pipeline carrying natural gas exploded near Knifley, Kentucky on February 13, sending two people to the hospital with injuries, destroying two homes, and alarming residents, who saw flames from miles away. Later, it was determined that Hydrogen embrittlement had caused the pipe failure.[464][465] • On March 6, contractors working for Shell Oil Company hit Shells Houston-to-Houma (Ho-Ho) crude oil pipeline near Port Neches, Texas, spilling 364 barrels of crude oil.[466] • On March 12, the East Harlem apartment explosion in New York City, New York. NTSB investigators found natural gas in the soil nearby, indicating that the gas leak had existed for a while before the explosion.[467] • A 20-inch Mid-Valley Pipeline Company pipeline failed in Hamilton County, Ohio on March 18, spilling at least 364 barrels of crude oil into the adjacent Oak Glen Nature Preserve. Animals in the area were affected.[468][469] • On March 18, a 3-inch, half-mile flare waste gas pipeline in a neighborhood in Arvin, California, was discovered leaking, a few blocks from Arvin High School, in a residential area. It had been leaking for as long as two years.[470] • A pipeline running to a Williams Companies LNG storage facility in Plymouth, Washington exploded and sent shrapnel flying that ruptured an LNG storage tank. Nearly 1,000 residents were evacuated and at least five employee at the facility was injured. [471][472] • A 12-inch Williams Companies gas pipeline failed at a weld in Moundsville, West Virginia. The following explosion and fire explosion scorched trees over a 2-acre area near Moundsville. Several homes were evacuated as a precaution. There were no injuries reported.[473] • On April 17, a private excavator accidentally cut a gas line while doing some work in Union Township, Licking County, Ohio on April 17. The man suffered second degree burns to the upper portion of his body. There was no damage to any buildings.[474] • On April 23, an explosion & fire hit a Williams Companies gas processing plant in Opal, Wyoming. All 95 residents of the town were evacuated, and part of US Highway 30 was closed for a time.[475][476] • On May 6, Sinclair Oil Company pipeline detected a pressure drop on a pipeline, with the problem being traced 2 days later to a leak in Knox County, Missouri. A mixture of gasoline and diesel fuel contaminated soil on a farm.[477] • 3 workers from Plantation Pipeline inadvertently ruptured their pipeline at a pump station in Anderson County, South Carolina on May 12, causing a geyser of gasoline, and spraying the workers with it. There was no fire, but the workers had to be decontaminated at a hospital.[478] • On June 26, near East Bernard, Texas, a gas pipeline adjacent to a Kinder Morgan gas compressor plant blew out, destroying the roadway and catching a nearby truck on fire just south of Highway 59. Flames as high as 150 feet were shooting out of the pipeline.[479] • On July 10, a vent stack at a Williams Field Services gas pipeline compressor station in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania caught fire. Only minor damage was reported at other parts of the station.[480] • A Greka 6 inch pipeline spilled over 1,200 gallons of crude oil on August 4 in Santa Barbara County, California. The oil spread out over less than a mile from the leak.[481] • On August 12, a mulching machine hit a 12 inch natural gas pipeline in Rusk County, Texas. The operator of the machine was killed in the following explosion.[482] • About 100 gallons of crude oil spilled from a pipeline at a tank facility at the Port of Albany in Albany, New York on August 20. Workers on a routine inspection of the above-ground pipeline noticed oil spraying out of a faulty gasket and shut off valves.[483] • On August 21, four workers were injured in a fire while a crew was performing maintenance on a natural gas pipeline in Garvin County, Oklahoma. The injured workers were treated and released from a hospital, and there was no explosion.[484] • On September 14, a contract worker performing routine maintenance on a Chevron offshore gas pipeline was killed, and two other workers were injured. The accident occurred 6 miles south of Timbalier Bay off the southeast coast of Louisiana.[485] • On September 16, more than 500 residents of Benton Harbor, Michigan, were forced to leave their homes for 10 to 12 hours, after authorities discovered a leak on a 22-inchTransCanada Corporation gas transmission pipeline.[486][487] • On October 13, a gas transmission pipeline failed near Centerview, Missouri, causing an explosion and massive fire for several hours. There were no injuries. [488][489] • On October 13, a Sunoco/Mid-Valley crude oil pipeline ruptured, and spilled about 168,000 gallons of crude oil in Caddo Parish, Louisiana. Wildlife was killed.[490] • A 24 inch gas transmission pipeline was hit by excavators on October 23, near Newport, Arkansas. 5 nearby homes were evacuated, and 2 highways and a railroad were closed for a time. There was no fire or injuries.[491] • On October 28, an 8-inch natural gas condensate pipeline exploded in Monroe County, Ohio. A large fire followed. There were no injuries.[492]
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