DOT Issues Grants to States for Pipeline Safety Call Centers

Centers Support the National 811 ‘Call Before You Dig’ Hotline

Department of Transportation - PHMSA • PHMSA

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration issued just over $1 million in One Call grants today to support states’ safe digging call centers in an effort to reduce pipeline digging accidents.

CRTC Denies CCGA Application for Shared Use of 811

Canadian Common Ground Alliance • canadiancga.com • May 6, 2012

It is with disappointment that the CCGA, its Regional Partners across Canada and its National Stakeholders The Canadian Energy Pipeline Association and the Canadian Gas Association, announce the CRTC decision to deny our application for shared use of the 811 dialling code.
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Proposed rules hinder plans of rural telecoms

JILL SCHRAMM - Staff Writer • Minot Daily News

Although their adoption remains uncertain, proposed federal rules that change a key area of funding for rural telecommunications companies already are affecting North Dakota's service providers.

Lightning sparks gas fire, forces Dinkytown evacuations

Shelby Capacio • myfoxtwincities.com

MINNEAPOLIS (KMSP) - An early-morning storm pushed about 150 people out of their homes on Sunday after a lightning strike caused a gas fire to erupt, destroying three cars.
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Koch Pipeline Company, L.P. Earns Second API Distinguished Award for Safety and Environmental Performance

Koch Pipeline • marketwatch.com

WICHITA, Kan., Apr 19, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Today Koch Pipeline Company, L.P. was awarded the API Distinguished Award for Outstanding Safety and Environmental Performance in the large pipeline operator category for the second consecutive year.

U.S. Transportation Secretary LaHood Urges Homeowners, Excavators to Avoid a ‘Grimm’ Situation in New ‘Call 811 Before You Dig’ Public Service Announcement

PHMSA • May 3, 2012

U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood will join safety advocates and business leaders at a press conference on Tuesday, May 1, 2012, to urge the public to avoid preventable pipeline accidents by calling 811 before they dig. The national 811 toll-free telephone number should be used by anyone prior to digging so that underground pipelines and other utilities can be marked and thus avoided during construction, landscaping and other excavation projects.

3 UMC Students Rescued from Red Lake River

Valleynewslive.com • May 3, 2012

Three northern valley kayakers got more adventure than they bargained for last night.

  Rescue workers had to pull 3 University of Minnesota Crookston students from the Red Lake River in the dark last night, after they paddle past their stopping point and became lost in the dark. They were not in danger of drowning.