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Pipelines & Spills

Pipeline Integrity

• TransCanada’s Keystone XL Southern Segment: Construction Problems Raise Questions About the Integrity of the Pipeline
  (Public Citizen, 2013)
  Report documents construction problems and more than 125 excavations of possible anomalies and engineering code violations along the Texas portion of the Keystone XL pipeline that, if unaddressed, pose a heightened risk of spills of highly toxic tarsands.
  

• Use of Substandard Steel by the U.S. Pipeline Industry, 2007-2009
  (Plains Justice, June 2010)
  
• Plains Justice letter to U.S. PHMSA re: TransCanada Use of Substandard Steel (2010)
  
• The Northern Great Plains at Risk: Oil Spill Planning Deficiencies in the Keystone Pipeline System
  (Plains Justice, November 2010)
  
• General Observations on the Myth of a Best International Pipeline Standard
  (2007) by Richard Kuprewicz, Accufacts, Inc. (commissioned by Pipeline Safety Trust)
  
• A Review, Analysis and Comments on Engineering Critical Assessments as proposed in PHMSA’s Proposed Rule on Safety Of Gas Transmission and Gathering Pipelines
  (2016) by Richard Kuprewicz, Accufacts, Inc. (commissioned by Pipeline Safety Trust)
  
• A Proposal for Canadian Pipeline Safety Indicators, and the Needed Transparency of Information to Support Them
  (Pipeline Safety Trust, 2016)
  

Pipeline Spills

• Analysis of Frequency, Magnitude and Consequence of Worst-Case spills from the Proposed Keystone XL Pipeline
  John Stansbury, Ph.D., P.E. 2013
  
• Commentary on the Risk Analysis for the Proposed Emera Brunswick Pipeline Through Saint John, NB
  By Richard B. Kuprewicz, Accufacts, 2006 (commissioned by Pipeline Safety Trust)
  
• HISTORY OF SPILLS: TransCanada’s Keystone pipeline (21 SPILLS: 2010-19)
  (Bold Nebraska, 2019)
• Marshall, Michigan Tar Sands Spill into Kalamazoo River – 2010
  (NRDC, 2014)
  
• Mayflower Arkansas Tar Sands Spill
  
• Pipelines a Significant Source of Harm
  (Delaware Riverkeeper Network)
  
• Pipeline Safety in the Salt Lake Valley
  (commissioned by Pipeline Safety Trust)
  
• Evidence-Based Risk Communication and Pipeline Public Awareness
  (2017) by Wider Lens Research LLC (commissioned by Pipeline Safety Trust)
  

WATCH: Simulation of oil spill from Enbridge Line 5 underwater pipeline into Straits of Mackinac.