State's gas pipeline inspections lag
Jaxon Van Derbeken - 11/14/2010
Mile for mile, California conducts the fewest natural gas pipeline safety inspections of any state, prompting federal officials to sanction the state for seven years running and warn its regulators against shortchanging public safety, a Chronicle review of documents and federal data shows.
Jaxon Van Derbeken - 11/14/2010
Mile for mile, California conducts the fewest natural gas pipeline safety inspections of any state, prompting federal officials to sanction the state for seven years running and warn its regulators against shortchanging public safety, a Chronicle review of documents and federal data shows.
Riechel: PG&E and the need NOT TO KNOW
Robert Riechel - 11/13/2010
Robert Riechel, a Seventh Avenue, San Bruno, resident is concerned about a PG&E natural gas pipeline planted right outside his back fence.
Robert Riechel - 11/13/2010
Robert Riechel, a Seventh Avenue, San Bruno, resident is concerned about a PG&E natural gas pipeline planted right outside his back fence.
Alice: Anticipating PG&E's neighborhood barbecue
Alice Barnes - 11/13/2010
Alice Barnes asks her City Council if she will be PG&E's neighborhood barbecue or invited to it in San Bruno.
Alice Barnes - 11/13/2010
Alice Barnes asks her City Council if she will be PG&E's neighborhood barbecue or invited to it in San Bruno.
PG&E says East Palo Alto pipeline is OK
Bonnie Eslinger - 11/12/2010
A natural gas pipeline in East Palo Alto that showed up on PG&E's top 100 list of highest-risk segments has been inspected and does not need to be repaired or replaced, the utility told city officials.
Bonnie Eslinger - 11/12/2010
A natural gas pipeline in East Palo Alto that showed up on PG&E's top 100 list of highest-risk segments has been inspected and does not need to be repaired or replaced, the utility told city officials.
Infrastructure concerns
Phillip Ohnemus - 11/12/2010
Jefferson County, AL (WIAT) Infrastructure is how we get from here to there, how we wash our hands, flush our toilets, and even cook our food.
Phillip Ohnemus - 11/12/2010
Jefferson County, AL (WIAT) Infrastructure is how we get from here to there, how we wash our hands, flush our toilets, and even cook our food.
Calabasas gas line has 'no anomalies'
Newly Paul - 11/12/2010
Calabasas' sole gas transmission line is operating up to par based on a 2008 inspection, a representative from the Southern California Gas Company told City Council members on Wednesday.
Newly Paul - 11/12/2010
Calabasas' sole gas transmission line is operating up to par based on a 2008 inspection, a representative from the Southern California Gas Company told City Council members on Wednesday.
San Bruno inspects PGE pipe site
Marty Medina - 11/12/2010
In response to a query from Alice Barnes the City of San Bruno dispatched an inspector to see what PG&E was doing to pipeline 101 on airport property.
Marty Medina - 11/12/2010
In response to a query from Alice Barnes the City of San Bruno dispatched an inspector to see what PG&E was doing to pipeline 101 on airport property.
Gas pipeline-testing request had little support
Shaun Bishop - 11/11/2010
A Peninsula mayor has called for a natural-gas pipeline in his city to be completely shut down for a full safety inspection, but PG&E said the method is not feasible.
Shaun Bishop - 11/11/2010
A Peninsula mayor has called for a natural-gas pipeline in his city to be completely shut down for a full safety inspection, but PG&E said the method is not feasible.
Turner: Worm could multiply disasters
Adrian Turner - 11/09/2010
The recent emergence of "Stuxnet" and the catastrophe in San Bruno provide two examples of what's at stake in the next big digital battleground: the Internet of Things -- the ecosystem of increasingly intelligent and networked machinery we haven't traditionally viewed as computers, ranging from cars to household appliances to military and industrial equipment.
Adrian Turner - 11/09/2010
The recent emergence of "Stuxnet" and the catastrophe in San Bruno provide two examples of what's at stake in the next big digital battleground: the Internet of Things -- the ecosystem of increasingly intelligent and networked machinery we haven't traditionally viewed as computers, ranging from cars to household appliances to military and industrial equipment.
Aging fuel lines remain major concern
Staff - 11/08/2010
The September pipeline explosion and fire in San Bruno has focused attention on PG&E pipelines, but KTVU has learned there are other equally old transmission lines in the Bay Area that are also raising concerns about aging infrastructure.
Staff - 11/08/2010
The September pipeline explosion and fire in San Bruno has focused attention on PG&E pipelines, but KTVU has learned there are other equally old transmission lines in the Bay Area that are also raising concerns about aging infrastructure.
Small leaks excluded from PG&E report
Katie Worth - 11/07/2010
An unknown number of smaller leaks were left off of a list of natural gas line leaks that PG&E reported having found and repaired last week.
Katie Worth - 11/07/2010
An unknown number of smaller leaks were left off of a list of natural gas line leaks that PG&E reported having found and repaired last week.
Oak Park briefed on gas line safety
Sylvie Belmond - 11/04/2010
An explosion similar to the one that occurred in San Bruno last September is not likely to occur in the Conejo Valley, a representative of Southern California Gas Co. told local officials last week.
Sylvie Belmond - 11/04/2010
An explosion similar to the one that occurred in San Bruno last September is not likely to occur in the Conejo Valley, a representative of Southern California Gas Co. told local officials last week.
PG&E's controlled gas release surprises city
Jesse Dungan - 11/04/2010
Three South Palo Alto schools were evacuated Wednesday morning after Pacific Gas & Electric Co. apparently failed to properly notify the city it was conducting a controlled release of natural gas in the area, officials said.
Jesse Dungan - 11/04/2010
Three South Palo Alto schools were evacuated Wednesday morning after Pacific Gas & Electric Co. apparently failed to properly notify the city it was conducting a controlled release of natural gas in the area, officials said.
Riechel: PG&E Line 101 Update
Robert Riechel - 11/04/2010
As you may know, there is a PG&E 20 inch at 275 psi gas pipeline (#101) about 15 feet east of the rear property lines along 7th Avenue in San Bruno. I have been trying to get information about this line and become assured that our City is being kept totally informed by PG&E about this line. To help accomplish this, City Manager Jackson participated Wednesday November 3rd in a meeting with State Assembly member Jerry Hill and his District Director Marc Hershman, Congress woman Jackie Speier's District Director Brian Perkins, along with PG&E's Mr. Francisco Salguere, Ms. Ashlie Simpson, and the local PG&E supervisor (whose name I forgot) on sight of the 20 inch @ 275 psi pipeline 101 that runs just feet each east of the 7th Avenue property lines and the Belle Air Elementary School.
Robert Riechel - 11/04/2010
As you may know, there is a PG&E 20 inch at 275 psi gas pipeline (#101) about 15 feet east of the rear property lines along 7th Avenue in San Bruno. I have been trying to get information about this line and become assured that our City is being kept totally informed by PG&E about this line. To help accomplish this, City Manager Jackson participated Wednesday November 3rd in a meeting with State Assembly member Jerry Hill and his District Director Marc Hershman, Congress woman Jackie Speier's District Director Brian Perkins, along with PG&E's Mr. Francisco Salguere, Ms. Ashlie Simpson, and the local PG&E supervisor (whose name I forgot) on sight of the 20 inch @ 275 psi pipeline 101 that runs just feet each east of the 7th Avenue property lines and the Belle Air Elementary School.
Blast nails coffin on LNG development
Thomas D. Elias - 11/02/2010
There is no doubt that Pacific Gas & Electric Co. has acted at least somewhat more responsibly in the wake of the September natural gas pipeline explosion in San Bruno than BP did after its springtime offshore oil platform disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
Thomas D. Elias - 11/02/2010
There is no doubt that Pacific Gas & Electric Co. has acted at least somewhat more responsibly in the wake of the September natural gas pipeline explosion in San Bruno than BP did after its springtime offshore oil platform disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
Gas line break forces evacuations
Mike Harris - 10/30/2010
As many as 40 residents from the Arrowhead Highlands area of Crestline near Highway 18 off Lake Gregory Drive were evacuated Monday night around 6:30 p.m. after a private plow broke into a gas line threatening neighboring homes to the possibility of fire.
Mike Harris - 10/30/2010
As many as 40 residents from the Arrowhead Highlands area of Crestline near Highway 18 off Lake Gregory Drive were evacuated Monday night around 6:30 p.m. after a private plow broke into a gas line threatening neighboring homes to the possibility of fire.
Once-rural areas, people nearer pipelines
Kimberly Lankford - 10/29/2010
On Sept. 9, a 30-inch natural gas pipeline exploded in the suburban community of San Bruno creating a 2,000-degree fireball that killed eight people, destroyed 37 homes and left more than 60 people injured. A gaping crater replaced homes at the center of the blast.
Kimberly Lankford - 10/29/2010
On Sept. 9, a 30-inch natural gas pipeline exploded in the suburban community of San Bruno creating a 2,000-degree fireball that killed eight people, destroyed 37 homes and left more than 60 people injured. A gaping crater replaced homes at the center of the blast.
Bay Cities crew rams into PG&E gas line
Greta Mart - 10/28/2010
Martinez police officers and ConFire personnel kept up a vigilant watch for possible ignition sources.
Greta Mart - 10/28/2010
Martinez police officers and ConFire personnel kept up a vigilant watch for possible ignition sources.
Dozens of PG&E gas leaks revealed
Katie Worth - 10/26/2010
A survey of thousands of miles of gas pipelines around Northern California has exposed some 38 leaks.
Katie Worth - 10/26/2010
A survey of thousands of miles of gas pipelines around Northern California has exposed some 38 leaks.
PG&E fixes 38 leaking pipelines
David R. Baker - 10/26/2010
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. found and repaired 38 leaking natural gas pipelines after regulators forced the utility to examine its entire network after last month's fatal explosion in San Bruno, according to a report released Monday.
David R. Baker - 10/26/2010
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. found and repaired 38 leaking natural gas pipelines after regulators forced the utility to examine its entire network after last month's fatal explosion in San Bruno, according to a report released Monday.