Story misses most important issue: Why did it blow up? B
Louisiana pipeline blast kills one Fri Dec 14, 2007 7:56pm EST http://www.reuters.com/articlePrint?articleId=USN1456016620071215 HOUSTON (Reuters) - A motorist was killed and another was injured when the Columbia Gulf natural gas pipeline in northeast Louisiana exploded on Friday afternoon near an interstate highway, said a Louisiana State Police spokeswoman. All three natural gas lines that make up Columbia Gulf Pipeline, which carries natural gas to the Midwest, Northeast and Southeast United States, were shut at the blast site near Delhi, Louisiana, pipeline operator NiSource Inc said in a posting on its Web site. Corbin Fawcett, 47, of Haleyville, Alabama, and George McCaleb, 58, of Fayetteville, Alabama, were traveling east in a pickup truck on Interstate Highway 20 when the pipeline exploded at about 1 p.m. CST (2 p.m. EST), said Sgt. Julie Lewis of the Louisiana State Police. Earlier media reports said the deceased man was fishing near the pipeline when it exploded, but those were incorrect, Lewis said. Fawcett was killed and McCaleb was taken to a hospital for treatment of second-degree burns to his hands. In the Web site posting, NiSource said it expected to resume moving gas through one of the lines that make up the pipeline Friday night. NiSource declared force majeure for the line on which the explosion occurred. Force majeure is invoked when a company cannot comply with the terms of a contract for reasons beyond its control. "It's too early to say what impact this will have on the price of gas," said Rand LaVonn, spokesman for Dallas-based Atmos Energy Corp, the nation's largest natural gas-only distributor serving a dozen states. Atmos also procures gas for industrial and municipal customers in 22 states. "It will impact the supply of gas as Atmos and others reroute gas from one pipeline to another," LaVonn said. "We'll have to wait and see." The Columbia Gulf pipeline stretches 4,200 miles (6,759 kilometers) across Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee and Kentucky. It interconnects with every major pipeline system on the Gulf Coast and moves gas to markets in the U.S. Midwest, Southeast and Northeast. About six miles of Interstate 20 will remain shut until Louisiana officials determine that the highway and nearby bridges were not damaged in the blast and following fire. The two lines next to the line that blew up were shut for evaluation to determine if they were damaged in the blast, NiSource said. Natural gas is sold to utilities for home-heating and to produce electricity, as well as to municipalities and industrial and manufacturing companies. (Reporting by Erwin Seba, Joe Silha, Eileen O'Grady, Bruce Nichols, Anna Driver and Robert Campbell, writing by Erwin Seba; Editing by Marguerita Choy) C Reuters 2007. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content, including by caching, framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. Reuters and the Reuters sphere logo are registered trademarks and trademarks of the Reuters group of companies around the world. (F)AIR USE NOTICE: All original content and/or articles and graphics in this message are copyrighted, unless specifically noted otherwise. All rights to these copyrighted items are reserved. Articles and graphics have been placed within for educational and discussion purposes only, in compliance with "Fair Use" criteria established in Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976. The principle of "Fair Use" was established as law by Section 107 of The Copyright Act of 1976. "Fair Use" legally eliminates the need to obtain permission or pay royalties for the use of previously copyrighted materials if the purposes of display include "criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research." Section 107 establishes four criteria for determining whether the use of a work in any particular case qualifies as a "fair use". A work used does not necessarily have to satisfy all four criteria to qualify as an instance of "fair use". Rather, "fair use" is determined by the overall extent to which the cited work does or does not substantially satisfy the criteria in their totality. If you wish to use copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml THIS DOCUMENT MAY CONTAIN COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL. COPYING AND DISSEMINATION IS PROHIBITED WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE COPYRIGHT OWNERS. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
