The Pipeline Safety Trust promotes fuel transportation safety through education and advocacy, by increasing access to information, and by building partnerships with residents, safety advocates, government, and industry, that result in safer communities and a healthier environment.
Pipeline Safety––What More Needs to be Done?
A conference for all stakeholders
Join Us in New Orleans
November 20th & 21th, 2008
at the Hotel Monteleone!
On November 20th and 21st the Pipeline Safety Trust will be hosting another unique pipeline safety conference. What makes the Pipeline Safety Trust’s conferences unique are the equal mix of experience from the affected public, the pipeline industry, and government regulators, all coming together to discuss barriers to safer pipelines. Through such a collaborative approach the Trust hopes to promote better understanding and trust between these groups, so we can all move forward together in our mutual goal of making pipelines as safe as possible.
The conference will be held in the historic, family owned Hotel Monteleone in the French Quarter in New Orleans. The agenda is under development but will include topics such as:
- Pipeline Siting
- Expanding HCAs
- Property Owner Bill of Rights
- Assessment intervals
- Information needs
- Overview of current data
- Data Needs
- Transparency Needs
- How Do You Explain Pipeline Risk?
- Do 1162 requirements do any good?
- Enlisting Partners
- PIPA
- Landowners as pipeline protectors
- Community Technical Assistance Grants
