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Major Accidents and Pipeline
Safety Legislation Since the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill
Federal
Pipeline Accident Data
Pipeline
Industry Accident and Safety Studies
Pipeline
Company Accident Records
TIMELINE
OF PIPELINE ACCIDENTS, INJURIES AND DEATHS 1989-2001
Major
Accidents and Pipeline Safety Legislation Since the 1989 Exxon
Valdez spill
On
March 24, 1989, barely a month after President George H. W.
Bush was inaugurated the supertanker Exxon Valdez tore
open its hull and spilled about 11 million gallons of crude
oil into Alaska's Prince William Sound. It was the defining
moment in recent environmental history, touching off a firestorm
of criticism of the oil industry's safety record and
lax regulations. By the following year, Congress swept aside
the U.S. oil industry's desperate lobbying to head off
tough new regulations and adopted the Oil Pollution Act of
1990 (OPA-90), signed into law by President Bush on August
18.
Hailed
as landmark environmental legislation, OPA-90 had one now-glaring
weakness: It exempted oil and natural gas pipelines from most
provisions. This was despite a shocking record of thousands
of accidents a year up to that date, a record that continues
today.
This
section begins with a timeline and brief description of major
oil and natural gas pipeline accidents since the month of
the Exxon Valdez disaster — and the Congressional
and federal regulatory responses to this unabated problem.
The
13 Worst Pipeline Accidents
Newspaper,
Magazine & Media Accounts
Government
Reports
Congressional
Hearings: Pipeline
Safety Congressional Hearings
- Pipeline
Safety Hearings before the Subcommittee on Investigations
and Oversight - May 5 & 6 1987.
- Pipeline
Explosion in San Bernardino, CA Hearing before the Subcommittee
on Investigations and Oversight - July 7, 1989.
- Pipeline
Safety Reauthorization Hearing before the Subcommittee on
Energy and Power - May, 1991.
- Transportation
- Code of Federal Regulations 49 - October 1, 1997
- Pipeline
Safety Hearing before the Subcommittee on Surface Transportation
- September 25, 1991.
- Underwater
Pipeline Safety Joint Hearing before the Subcommittee on
Energy and Power and the Subcommittee on Surface Transportation
- September 11, 1990
- Pipeline
Safety Regulations - US Department of Transportation - October
1, 1994
- Colonial
Pipeline Rupture Hearing before the Subcommittee on Investigations
and Oversight - May 18, 1993
Other
Reports
Oil Spill
Intelligence Reports
Wilderness
Society: "Worst Spills"
Reports
Related
Books
Joanna
Burger Books
Friends
of the Earth: "Crude Awakening"
Federal Pipeline Accident Data
National
Response Center Table
History
of Pipeline Accidents by State
OPS Annual
Reports of Pipeline Safety 1978-96
National
Response Center Annual Incident Summaries 1997-2002
Pipeline Industry Accident and Safety
Studies
California
Fire Marshall: Risk Assessments of Pipelines in California
National
Pipeline Safety Summit
Pipeline
Safety Hearing, NTSB
Federal
Oversight of Pipelines, NTSB
Other
NTSB studies
Colonial
Pipeline Task Force Report, OPS
General
Accounting Office: Pollution from Pipelines
From the
Pipeline Industry Study, NJ Institute of Technology
Safety
of Marine Pipelines, National Research Council
Safety
of Interstate Oil Pipelines, API: Industry
Self-Review
Petroleum
Industry Environmental Performance, API
Profile
of Transportation Industry, EPA
Unregulated
Potential Sources of Pollution, EPA
Offshore
Oil Spill Occurance Rates, MMS
City of
Fredericksburg, VA Reports
Fairfax
County Pipeline Safety Perspective
National
League of Cities reports
Florida
Alliance: Historical Perspective
on the Environmental impact of Petroleum and Natural Gas Pipelines
Financial
Costs of Oil Spills, OSIR
Pipeline
Accident Trends, EFA
National
Research Council: Pipelines and Public
Safety
National
Park Service and Pipelines
International
Pipeline Accidents, Environmental
Law Alliance
Pipeline Company Accident Records
Pipeline
Industry Profits
Top
10 Texas Pipeline Companies
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