{"id":47060,"date":"2019-07-04T08:29:56","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T13:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47060"},"modified":"2019-07-04T08:29:58","modified_gmt":"2019-07-04T13:29:58","slug":"transcanada-pipeline-explodes-in-west-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47060","title":{"rendered":"TransCanada Pipeline Explodes in West Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecowatch.com\/transcanada-pipeline-explodes-west-virginia-2576042392.html\">TransCanada Pipeline Explodes in West Virginia<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A newly installed&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecowatch.com\/tag\/transcanada\">TransCanada<\/a>&nbsp;natural gas&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecowatch.com\/tag\/pipelines\">pipeline<\/a>&nbsp;exploded early Thursday in the remote Nixon Ridge area of Marshall County in West Virginia.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No injuries were reported but flames and smoke from the blast could be seen as far as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TDiTirroWTRF\/status\/1004707717498441733\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">20 miles away<\/a>, residents told local media. Area police told&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/gas-pipeline-explosion-rocks-moundsville-area-northern-west-virginia-sends-flames-high-in-air\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CBS News<\/a>&nbsp;the fire was &#8220;very large\u2014if you can see it from your house, evacuate.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000px\" height=\"1000px\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/v2.5\/plugins\/video.php?allowfullscreen=true&amp;app_id=221153651603389&amp;channel=https%3A%2F%2Fstaticxx.facebook.com%2Fconnect%2Fxd_arbiter.php%3Fversion%3D44%23cb%3Df25053733322734%26domain%3Dwww.ecowatch.com%26origin%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.ecowatch.com%252Ffefbca19162e2%26relation%3Dparent.parent&amp;container_width=780&amp;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fruby.mason.54%2Fvideos%2F1587635261364082%2F&amp;locale=en_US&amp;sdk=joey\" class=\"\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;It sounded like a freight train coming through, or a tornado, and the sky lit up bright orange, and then I got up and looked out the window and flames were shooting I don&#8217;t know how far into the sky,&#8221; Tina Heath-Chaplin, of Moundsville, told&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/top-stories\/pipeline-explosion-sends-ball-of-fire-into-air-in-w-va-visible-from-washington-co\/764708983\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WPXI<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TransCanada\u2014the same company behind the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecowatch.com\/tag\/keystone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Keystone<\/a>&nbsp;pipeline\u2014said the explosion has been contained and an investigation is underway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;As soon as the issue was identified, emergency response procedures were enacted and the segment of impacted pipeline was isolated. The fire was fully extinguished by approximately 8:30 a.m,&#8221; the company&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcanada.com\/NR-Incident\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">commented<\/a>&nbsp;Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The cause of this issue is not yet known,&#8221; TransCanada continued. &#8220;The site of the incident has been secured and we are beginning the process of working with applicable regulators to investigate, including the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TDiTirroWTRF\/status\/1004728173500796928\/photo\/1\">View image on Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TDiTirroWTRF\/status\/1004728173500796928\/photo\/1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/DfGC78YUEAATd-D?format=jpg&amp;name=small\" alt=\"View image on Twitter\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Local12Tessa\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/1138600943984041984\/MGytI3vs_normal.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Local12Tessa\"><strong><\/strong><strong>\u2714<\/strong><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Local12Tessa\/status\/1004728173500796928\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is drone footage from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarshallCoWVOEM\">@MarshallCoWVOEM<\/a> Director Tom Hart says this is at the endd of Nixon Ridge near Fish Creek. The explosion left a crater. The DEP estimates 10 acres are affected <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WTRF7News\">@WTRF7News<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Robert Burrough, the director with the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration&#8217;s Eastern Regional Office, told the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/local\/region\/2018\/06\/07\/Pipeline-explosion-moundsville-west-virginia\/stories\/201806070129\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pittsburgh Post-Gazette<\/a>&nbsp;the affected line is likely TransCanada&#8217;s $1.6 billion, 160-mile&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcanada.com\/en\/announcements\/2018-01-02leach-xpress-project-placed-into-service-mountaineer-xpress-gulf-xpress-receive-ferc-certificates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Leach XPress pipeline<\/a>, which started service in January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TransCanada Pipeline Explodes in West Virginia A newly installed&nbsp;TransCanada&nbsp;natural gas&nbsp;pipeline&nbsp;exploded early Thursday in the remote Nixon Ridge area of Marshall County in West Virginia.&nbsp; No injuries were reported but flames and smoke from the blast could be seen as far as&nbsp;20 miles away, residents told local media. Area police told&nbsp;CBS News&nbsp;the fire was &#8220;very large\u2014if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[8375,12507,26198,16975,1350,18150],"class_list":["post-47060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-ecowatch","tag-lorraine-chow","tag-nixon-ridge-pipeline","tag-pipeline-explosion","tag-transcanada","tag-west-virginia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47060"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47062,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47060\/revisions\/47062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}