A ransomware attack on a US natural gas facility meant a pipeline had to be shut down for two days, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has said. They’re doing it simply because it’s the right thing to do to help the environment and the planet stay healthy and diverse.”
The initiative worked, Hess says, and it wasn’t long before the animals started moving back in to the re-planted zone.
Consumers Energy has decided that its impact matters, and it wants to take care of its corner of the earth.”“They’re endangered because they take a long time to reproduce, and there aren’t a lot of younger turtles,” Hess explains. Workers would report each other’s saves: katydids, praying mantises, mice, worms, frogs, snakes, toads, tadpoles, a fawn.
Whistler is now the third gas pipeline project sanctioned by energy companies in the past few years. Once they’re bigger, and stand a better shot at survival, they’re released to “sanctuary habitats far from roads and agriculture,” Hess says. As a group, we have saved hundreds and hundreds of animals.
“If there are ponds, we set aside logs to put back in them for turtles and frogs,” Hess adds. It takes just a moment to lift a snake out of our work zone and move it to safety.”Crews strive to restore habitats in complex ways and simple ones. “Consumers Energy doesn’t have to do all of that, but they do.”The environmentally friendly option isn’t always the cheapest option, but for Consumers Energy, it’s not about the bottom line, Hess says.
Consumers Energy touts restoration solutions for Saginaw Trail natural gas pipeline This environmental inspector shows how nature and energy pipelines … There are more projects in the pipeline.
They look for ways to do better – to do more than the requirements. It catches the feet of birds, and can become a gill net in water.”The company has invested in innovative ecosystem restoration solutions throughout the Saginaw Trail natural gas pipeline replacement project – a $610 million, four-phase effort to replace nearly 80 miles of pipeline through Michigan’s Saginaw, Genesee and Oakland counties. Natural Gas Pipeline Companies Charged in Pennsylvania Grand Jury Investigation.
The middle portion of the China-Russia East system will connect Changling in Jilin province and Yongqing and is scheduled for completion by the end of 2020.Taking over pipeline assets from PetroChina, the newly launched PipeChina will be in charge of the investment, construction and management of the Yongqing to Shanghai pipeline.Reporting by Muyu Xu in Beijing and Chen Aizhu in Singapore; Editing by Christian SchmollingerThis portion starts at Yongqing in China’s northern province of Hebei and ends at Shanghai in eastern China. ... Daily news and natural gas pricing information service focused on price transparency in Mexico. Alaska’s top gas line official says skepticism is justified, but excitement is too. Even the smallest of them are important to Consumers Energy.In 32 years as an independent environmental inspector, Tom Hess says he’s never seen a utility company more dedicated to habitat preservation than Consumers Energy.As part of the company’s commitment to protecting Michigan’s ecosystems during the multi-year project, they have a team of biologists on the job before and during construction, Hess says.
If you have plants that are native, they thrive.
It follows Kinder Morgan's Gulf … “We try to think ahead and put things back the way we found them. “The cheaper variety has a monofilament plastic netting in it that they say degrades over time, and it probably does, but the real problem is the small openings: the snakes get trapped because they can’t back up to get out. Along the way, the route crosses habitat that’s home to countless birds, reptiles, amphibians and small mammals.
The full China-Russia East system is a 5,111-km (3,176-mile) pipeline pumping natural gas from the Siberia region in Russia to China.BEIJING/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Construction has started on the southern portion of the China-Russia East natural gas pipeline, which carries supplies from the Power of Siberia system in Russia, China Oil & Gas Piping Network Corp (PipeChina) in a statement on Tuesday.Russian gas producer Gazprom is in talks to raise annual gas flows to China by 6 (bcm) to 44 bcm via the Power of Siberia pipeline.In May, Gazprom began a feasibility study for its Power of Siberia-2 pipeline project that would pump up to 50 bcm of gas to China per year via Mongolia.Northeastern China started consuming Russian gas via the north portion of the China-Russia East pipeline since December.Once launched in 2025, the southern part of the pipeline is expected to transmit 18.9 billion cubic metres (bcm) of natural gas to the Yangtze River delta region each year, the statement said. It’s woven so that “if an animal gets stuck in there, and it wriggles, the hole gets bigger and bigger until they can get out,” Hess says.When Hess pointed out that the grass being grown over completed sections wasn’t ideal for habitat development, the company decided to develop their own pollinator-friendly seed mix.