The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with Fiskars Brands, Inc. of Madison, Wisconsin, announced a voluntary recall today of Fiskars’ SmartPower String Trimmers. Unfortunately, this isn’t the first weed whacker recalled this summer. The problems are usually similar: fire, burn and laceration hazards. In this case, the trimmer’s engine vibrations were found to […]
Police officers in Rosenberg, Texas found almost half a million dollars stashed in a television and a propane tank inside a vehicle during a routine traffic stop last week, ABC7chicago.com reported. Officers became suspicious when their police dog searched the vehicle’s exterior and alerted them to a front door seam and a large cardboard box. […]
An Enterprise Products Partners pipeline carrying natural gas liquids leaked approximately 140,000 gallons of fuel into an Iowa section of the Missouri River on Saturday, according to a Reuters report. Enterprise spokesman Rick Rainey said controllers detected a drop in pressure in the pipeline between Nebraska and Iowa early Saturday morning and immediately shut it […]
Over the years, the propane industry has put forth a strong effort to clean up the fuel’s reputation as explosive and potentially dangerous through safer tanks, equipment, and training. In the most recent of these endeavors, the Rocky Mountain Propane Gas Association and the Propane Education Research Council (PERC) teamed up with Safe Fire, a […]
It’s been awhile since we’ve heard any news from Mont Belvieu, Texas, home of the country’s biggest propane hub and storage facility. Since the town consistently defines pricing and trends for propane nationwide, we checked in! Here’s the skinny: Late last month, Enterprise Products Partners LP began construction of a new NGL fractionation facility in […]
Pakistan’s Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA) dismissed regulation changes that would’ve required propane distributors to pass a safety test to become registered under OGRA’s list of approved distributors, PakTribune reported today. After a string of tank explosions and accidents injured several Pakistanis, some of them fatally, the Authority said they were creating a safety […]
As droughts, climate change, and record-breaking heat waves take their toll this summer, a majority of states across the East Coast are experiencing dangerous declines in air quality. Emergency room visits have spiked with people suffering from respiratory flare-ups, heat stroke and heat exhaustion. The dry, dirty air also inspired burn bans in multiple states […]
Alliance AutoGas continued its mission of expanding autogas usage and infrastructure in the U.S. this week by partnering with Nantucket Energy Corp., LLC to supply propane autogas to community fleets on the Massachusetts island. Program administrators said the move is congruent with “the historically independent, resourceful spirit” of Nantucket because autogas is produced almost entirely […]
AmeriGas continued one of its community Give-Back-Locally programs, “School Days,” this summer, recently dishing out money for school supplies to a Virginia elementary school, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported this week. All participants have to do is save their AmeriGas propane receipts and deposit them in their school’s School Days receipt box. Then, AmeriGas will pay […]
In an eco-conscious effort to use cleaner fuels, the Kenyan government announced plans to triple the country’s LPG usage by 2012, according to a recent report from Capital Business. Kenya currently consumes around 8,000 tons of LPG every month, and will need to increase storage facility capacities, distribution, and infrastructure to meet this goal. “This […]