Kinder Morgan

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A Radically New LandscapeJust as Standing Rock shifted public understanding of the extremes to which governments would go to support fossil fuel companies, so has the Trans Mountain fight.Clayton Thomas-Muller, who works with the climate justice organization 350, has been involved in fighting the tar sands for over a decade. “We’re in a radically new landscape, with an entirely new campaign that needs to emerge. The federal government of Canada has demonstrated just complete hypocrisy in the purchase of this pipeline using public funds,” he said. “To paraphrase Vice President Bob Chamberlain of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs … a foreign oil corporation based in Houston gave the sovereign nation of Canada an ultimatum, and Canada buckled.”So far, one of the largest producers in the Alberta tar sands region, Suncor, has shrugged at Trudeau’s multibillion-dollar gamble, pointing out that the “normal processes didn’t work very well.” The company has declined to commit to any new investments.The Canadian government is hoping to find another buyer for the pipeline before its deal with Kinder Morgan is finalized at the end of July. The government has sweetened the deal by offering to indemnify any buyer against losses caused by construction delays and guarantee a rate of return if the project’s future owner is unable to complete construction because of legal decisions. Still, it’s unclear that they’ll be successful in selling it until after the pipeline is built.If they don’t, then the Standing Rock of the north will be a battle where the line between the interests of the police and the pipeline owner will be virtually indistinguishable.==<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2020/05/03/keystone-xl-future-pipeline-permits" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">https://www.desmogblog.com/2020/05/03/keystone-xl-future-pipeline-permits</a>On April 15, Judge Brian Morris <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/morris-kxl-army-corps-summary-judgment-order.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">nullified</a> water-crossing permits in Montana that were granted for the Keystone XL, a major setback for the long-embattled tar sands oil pipeline. The ruling came just days after Keystone XL owner TC Energy, formerly known as TransCanada, obtained <a href="https://therealnews.com/columns/climate-crisis-covid-19-cancels-cop26-kxl-construction-trump-big-oil-huddle" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">billions of dollars in subsidies</a> from the Alberta government as global oil prices plummeted.The oil and gas industry has taken notice. Seemingly just a ruling on Keystone XL — the subject of opposition by the climate movement for the past decade — the ruling could have far broader implications for the future of building water-crossing pipelines and utility lines.In his decision, Judge Morris cited a potential violation of the Endangered Species Act when he ordered the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to do a deeper analysis of potential impacts to protected species. Morris required the Corps to demonstrate whether or not it could construct the pipeline without harming endangered species, such as the Pallid Sturgeon or the American burying beetle. Instead, the Army Corps “failed to consider relevant expert analysis and failed to articulate a rational connection between the facts it found and the choice it made,” Morris ruled, when the Corps gave Keystone XL the initial green light.The <a href="https://www.nrdc.org/sites/default/files/kxl-complaint-20190701.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">original July 2019 complaint </a>in that case — filed by Northern Plains Resource Council, Bold Alliance, Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense Council, and Center for Biological Diversity — also argued that the Army Corps had violated the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) in using an obscure regulatory lever to fast-track the review process.Known as <a href="https://www.usace.army.mil/Missions/Civil-Works/Regulatory-Program-and-Permits/Nationwide-Permits/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Nationwide Permit 12</a>, the permit only requires a short environmental analysis compared to the more robust environmental impact statement required under NEPA for other major infrastructure projects. But Morris also wrote that the decision applied not just to Keystone XL, but to all major federal projects aiming to utilize Nationwide Permit 12, calling for it to be “vacated pending completion of the consultation process and compliance with all environmental statutes and regulations.”Just two days after this decision, Army Corps regulatory program Chief Jennifer Moyer wrote in an email obtained by the Associated Press that the agency should suspend the program indefinitely “out of an abundance of caution” until the issue is resolved legally. The Trump administration has already <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/DOJ%20Motion%20for%20Stay%20Pending%20Appeal_0.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">requested a procedural halt</a> on implementing Morris’ decision until its potential appeal weaves its way through the legal system.“The Court has eliminated Nationwide Permit 12 for use by any utility line project anywhere in the country, which has extraordinary and immediate implications for numerous projects,” <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/DOJ%20Motion%20for%20Stay%20Pending%20Appeal_0.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">the U.S. Department of Justice attorneys wrote</a> on behalf of the Army Corps.The <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/american-petroleum-institute" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">American Petroleum Institute</a> (API), the lobbying and advocacy voice of the oil and gas industry, has also filed an affidavit in favor of putting a procedural halt to Morris’ ruling. “The ability to provide reliable energy is even more important now during this sensitive and challenging time brought on by COVID-19,” Robin Rorick, Vice President of Midstream and Industry Operations for API, <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/API%20Affidavit%20Robin%20Rorick.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">wrote in the affidavit</a>. “The Court’s Order could threaten API’s members’ ability to continue numerous energy and infrastructure projects, affecting the health of numerous companies and job security in an already-strained economy.”API <a href="https://www.api.org/news-policy-and-issues/news/2020/04/17/labor-industry-respond-to-montana-district-court-decision-on-usace-nationwide-pe" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">also joined</a> North America’s Building Trades Unions and Interstate Natural Gas Association of America in denouncing the ruling along similar lines.<h3 dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;">'Single and Complete'</h3>Nationwide Permit 12 historically was used for small “<a href="https://www.nao.usace.army.mil/Portals/31/docs/regulatory/NationwidePermits/Nationwide_Permit_12.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">single and complete</a>” projects crossing water parcels half an acre in size or smaller. But in the aftermath of protests and civil disobedience actions taken against Keystone XL, the Obama administration began using that permitting process to split pipelines into <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2013/11/22/US-court-denies-halt-pipeline-set-replace-keystone-xl-northern-half" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">hundreds or thousands</a> of half-acre pieces. The process was a way around the more robust and democratic National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulatory process, which involves both a public commenting and public hearing phase. Nationwide Permit 12 was also <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2016/09/08/dakota-access-pipeline-big-oil-nationwide-permit-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">used to push through</a> the Dakota Access pipeline, as well as the <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2013/10/13/us-court-keystone-xl-profits-more-important-than-environment" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">southern leg</a> of the Keystone XL, both greenlighted by President Barack Obama.During the Obama era, environmental groups decried this as a form of “<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2016/08/02/comment-period-closes-diverse-voices-call-overhaul-fast-track-pipeline-approval" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">segmentation</a>” and a way out of complying with NEPA, which they routinely challeneged in court <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2014/06/25/recent-federal-court-decision-could-muddy-waters-keystone-xl-south-flanagan-south" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">with some success</a>—though not enough to undo the legal lever. The bedrock environmental law is now under further attack by President <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/donald-trump" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Donald Trump</a>, with the administration trying to remove climate change contribution as a factor analyzed under the law for major projects and aiming to narrow the scope of and time it takes to complete these environmental impact reviews. [vid]Since March 2017, the Trump administration has utilized Nationwide Permit 12 over <a href="https://apnews.com/3fb59f0666144ddf4dce0d6d0514d407" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">37,000 times</a>, the AP reported. As it stands today, the Army Corps’ decision to halt use of the Nationwide Permit 12 fast-track tool has put 360 permit applications on hold. “The reason that matters is that the public and the communities and everybody that lives there has the chance to get involved in the process,” Eric Huber, Senior Managing Attorney with the Sierra Club's Environmental Law Program, told DeSmog. “Otherwise, these special permits just allow a pipeline company to go out and start construction without notice to anybody or to take private property and just proceed and blast this through regardless of how the local community thinks of it.”External corporate attorneys, too, have taken notice and expressed their own concerns about the ruling.“The decision puts in limbo thousands of infrastructure projects nationwide that rely on [Nationwide Permit] 12 for the construction, maintenance, or repair of utility lines and poses particularly acute problems for the oil and gas industry, which relies on the permit to facilitate projects ranging from large interstate pipelines to smaller gathering lines at exploration and production sites,” wrote attorneys from Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2019/04/03/firm-that-once-employed-trumps-pick-run-interior-is-making-millions-lobbying-it/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">firm with close ties</a> to the Trump administration, in <a href="https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/district-court-ruling-on-keystone-xl-27542/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">one such reaction to the ruling</a>.Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck’s fossil fuel industry lobbying <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/firms/summary?cycle=2020&id=D000000724&t0-search=oil" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">clients</a> include the American Petroleum Institute, American Public Power Association, Freeport LNG, Talos Energy, Jordan Cove LNG, WPX Energy, and the New Mexico Oil and Gas Association.Another firm heavily involved in fossil fuel industry litigation and lobbying, Steptoe & Johnson, also weighed in on the ruling and <a href="https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/new-montana-district-court-ruling-could-59518/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">wrote</a> that it could have the impact of “extending permitting time frames for these types of projects” going forward. The firm’s fossil fuel industry lobbying <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/firms/summary?cycle=2020&id=D000022267&t0-search=coal" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">clients</a> include American Gas Association, Gas Technology Institute, and Peabody Energy.<h3 dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;">Permian Highway Pipeline in Texas</h3>The legal precedent set in the Keystone XL case is already playing out in federal courts.On April 30, the Sierra Club filed a <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/Sierra%20Club%20v%20Army%20Corps%20of%20Engineers.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">lawsuit</a> in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas against the Army Corps of Engineers over another controversial pipeline. The complaint says the Army Corps did not comply with NEPA in issuing a Nationwide Permit 12 to the 428-mile <a href="https://www.spglobal.com/platts/en/market-insights/latest-news/natural-gas/101719-kinder-morgan-pushes-back-permian-highway-gas-pipe-in-service-date-blames-permitting" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Permian Highway gas pipeline</a>. It also argues the agency is not currently in compliance with the order in the Keystone XL case because it has continued to allow pipeline construction under the contested Nationwide Permit 12 program.“It is outrageous that the Corps approved this project without public notice or opportunity to comment on their permits,” Rebecca McCreary, a Sierra Club attorney, <a href="https://www.sierraclub.org/press-releases/2020/04/sierra-club-lawsuit-challenges-construction-permian-highway-fracked-gas" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">said of the Permian Highway pipeline in a press release</a>.  “Nationwide Permit 12 allows for no public hearings or participation by the local communities before the Corps permits construction to start, nor is there public notice or comment on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service permits allowing harm to the endangered species along the route. The Corps should stop this project immediately.”Owned by Kinder Morgan, Permian Highway is a pipeline slated to carry gas obtained via <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/fracking-the-future/" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”)</a> in Texas’ Permian Basin east across the state. Kinder Morgan told DeSmog it was aware of the lawsuit, but declined to comment on it and the broader Nationwide Permit 12 issue.Permian Highway has already seen issues with spills into water systems, with <a href="https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/sierra-club-brown-water-blanco-permian-highway-pipeline/269-d01ebb5c-778a-42af-b24e-e40f7ef00020" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: 0px;">one late March</a> incident <a href="https://www.statesman.com/news/20200408/records-pipeline-company-spilled-36000-gallons-of-drilling-fluid-in-hill-country" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">spilling 36,000 gallons</a> of drilling slurry — including a carcinogenic additive — into groundwater. [twt]Responding, the Hays County Commissioners Court <a href="https://hayscountytx.com/2020/04/22/commissioners-court-votes-to-rescind-road-permits-for-permian-highway-pipeline/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">voted</a> on April 22 to rescind road permits given by the Texas county to allow Kinder Morgan to drill underneath county roads as it builds the pipeline. And Kinder Morgan, too, has suspended construction on this portion of the pipeline as it “determines the best path forward” in the aftermath of the spill, the <a href="https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/energy/amp/kinder-morgan-hill-country-pipeline-drill-accident-15175986.php?fbclid=IwAR2JrPNbbEmSHwogVxIZtMMe12qAdD_PQOt1tkGQxc3VZ0laSiZghFIXEjE" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">company told Houston Chronicle</a>.The City of Austin, City of San Marcos, Hays County, Travis County, and others also <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/Austin%20Lawsuit.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">filed</a> their own Endangered Species Act lawsuit in February, arguing that the pipeline could threaten protected Golden Cheeked Warblers, two salamander species, and their habitats. <h3 dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;">Keystone XL Decision Looms</h3>In the Keystone XL case in Montana, Morris recently <a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mtd.61274/gov.uscourts.mtd.61274.134.0.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">denied </a>the Army Corps a procedural stay in the case. TC Energy, for its part, wants the decision <a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mtd.61274/gov.uscourts.mtd.61274.137.0.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">struck down</a> as it applies both to its own pipeline and for the permitting program at large.“If TC Energy does not receive authorization from the Army Corps by early July, its construction plans will be significantly impacted,” Gary Salsman, a TC Energy vice president for the Keystone XL project, <a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mtd.61274/gov.uscourts.mtd.61274.137.1.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">wrote in his April 29 affidavit</a>. “Currently, TC Energy is evaluating potential options that would be available to it in that circumstance, each of which have significant adverse consequences.”Those “potential options,” Salsman wrote, include a potential construction delay across Montana, South Dakota, and Nebraska; a change in construction plans this year to avoid the waters it is currently slated to cross that are impacted by the vacating of Nationwide Permit 12; or ending construction all together. He added that if construction does not begin in 2020, it could cost the company $750 million to $1.3 billion.Morris could make a decision on how broadly his Nationwide Permit 12 decision applies <a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mtd.61274/gov.uscourts.mtd.61274.134.0.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">as soon as May 8</a>. Regardless of the outcome, Morris' next move will likely face an appeal from either side. 
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Trudeau extends olive branch to Western Canada, vows to build Trans Mountain despite oppositionJohn Paul Tasker · CBC News · Posted: Oct 23, 2019 3:56 PM ET | Last Updated: October 23
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau makes his way to a press conference at the National Press Theatre in Ottawa on Wednesday. (Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press)
Two days after much of Western Canada rejected the Liberals on election day, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today vowed to be more sensitive to the needs of Alberta and Saskatchewan and to build the Trans Mountain expansion pipeline in the face of entrenched opposition from environmentalists.
Trudeau told a press conference in Ottawa this afternoon he clearly has to do more to earn the trust of people in the two resource-rich provinces. He said that work will start with ensuring more pipeline capacity is brought online so that oil producers can sell their product abroad at prices closer to the going world rate.
While Trudeau campaigned on a promise of more aggressive action to fight climate change, he said nothing has changed with respect to the government-owned Trans Mountain project and insisted it will be built after years of legal wrangling.
'In the interest of Canada'"We made a decision to move forward on the pipeline because it was in the interest of Canada to do so, because the environment and the economy need to go together. We will be continuing with the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion," he said.
"Albertans and people in Saskatchewan have faced very difficult years over these past few years because of the global commodity prices, because of the challenges they are facing. For a long time they weren't able to get their resources to markets other than the U.S. We are moving forward to solve those challenges."Lengths of pipe for the Trans Mountain expansion project are stacked at Edson, Alta. (Jason Franson/The Canadian Press)If built, the 1,150-kilometre expansion project would nearly triple the existing pipeline's capacity to 890,000 barrels a day. It would transport product directly from Alberta's oilpatch to coastal B.C. for shipping to markets in Asia.
Trudeau has promised any profits from the existing pipeline — pegged at some $500 million a year in corporate tax revenue alone — and the planned expansion will be used to fund green-friendly initiatives to help tackle climate change.
The federal Liberal government has twice approved the $7.4-billion Trans Mountain expansion. Ottawa bought the project from its original U.S. proponent, Kinder Morgan, in 2018 after that company threatened to end all essential spending on the project in response to outspoken opposition from B.C.'s provincial NDP government.
Even after a stunning court decision in August 2018 quashed the Liberal cabinet's initial approvals, Trudeau promised to build the project "the right way." After another consultation process with Indigenous peoples and an improved environmental review, cabinet again approved the project in June 2019. The Federal Court of Appeal is currently reviewing an appeal by Indigenous groups of that second approval.
Trans Mountain's fate not up to MPsWhile Trudeau might have to rely in this minority Parliament on vote support from the NDP and Green caucuses — two entities that have expressed strident opposition to Trans Mountain — the project's future does not depend on any one vote in the House of Commons.
In Canada, major natural resources projects like pipelines go through a regulatory review process led by the Canadian Energy Regulator (or, as it was known until recently, the National Energy Board) . It falls to cabinet, and cabinet alone, to give the project a final "yea" or "nay." And while those decisions are subject to judicial review, it's not up to individual parliamentarians to decide whether a particular project is approved.

Power & Politics?@PnPCBCAsked why Liberals were wiped out in Alta. and Sask, @JustinTrudeau said: “Why did this happen is not the central issue we have. The central issue for me is how do we move forward in a way that responds to the concerns that Albertans and Saskatchewanians have clearly expressed.”
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Trudeau said he has spoken recently with Western leaders like Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi about how the federal government can support a region that has struggled with slumping commodity prices and constrained export capacity.
"I will be reaching out specifically to westerners to hear from them ... to talk about how we can make sure that the concerns, the very real concerns of Albertans, are being addressed and reflected by this government," Trudeau said.
"This is something that I take very seriously, as a responsibility, to ensure that we are moving forward in ways that benefit all Canadians. I will be listening and working with a broad range of people to ensure that happens."
Trudeau rules out coalition, promises gender equity in new cabinetAppointing a western senator to cabinet would be 'counterproductive', independent senator warnsManitoba premier stands by federal carbon tax opposition, but says he wants to work with OttawaWhen asked if he'd appoint ministers from the two provinces, Trudeau said that is something he is now "reflecting on."
Trudeau said that not all past federal governments had representation from every corner of the country. He said there are other approaches that could offer regional representation; he didn't say what they are.
Some observers have suggested Trudeau could appoint new Western Canadian representatives to the Senate and have them sit as cabinet ministers to give Alberta and Saskatchewan a voice at the table. Former prime minister Stephen Harper appointed financier Michael Fortier to the Senate to give his government more representation from Quebec.
But Trudeau pointed out that the Senate appointment process is not like it was in the past, as nominations are now governed by an independent, merit-based system.
There is a precedent for naming people who do not hold a seat in Parliament to cabinet.
For example, former prime minister Jean Chrétien appointed Pierre Pettigrew and Stéphane Dion to cabinet. However, in both instances, the two men also agreed to run in upcoming byelections in safe Montreal-area seats.
WATCH | From The National, Trudeau reaches out to the West, commits to pipeline:

WatchTrudeau reaches out to the West, commits to pipeline5 days ago 02:18 Turn captions onPrime Minister Justin Trudeau committed to the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion as one way he will work to improve his relationship with Western Canada. 2:18John Paul TaskerParliamentary Bureau
John Paul (J.P.) Tasker is a reporter in the CBC's Parliamentary bureau in Ottawa. He can be reached at john.tasker@cbc.ca.</div><div>
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</div><div>Pipeline firm Kinder Morgan, intent on dominating natural gas transportation from West Texas’ booming Permian Basin, on Monday announced plans to build a $2 billion pipeline to deliver gas to Houston, Corpus Christi and Mexican hubs.</div><div>
</div><div>It’s the company’s first major project announcement since pulling out of its massive Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion project in Canada in the face of intense opposition from environmentalists and British Columbia’s provincial government. Kinder Morgan sold that project to the Canadian government for almost $3.5 billion.</div><div>
</div><div>The new deal sees Kinder Morgan placing an even greater focus back in Texas, where there’s a race underway to build new crude oil pipelines from the Permian to ports and refineries along the Gulf Coast. But the Houston-based company is focused on carrying all of the associated gas — more than many companies had projected — that’s also produced from the oil wells.</div><div>
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</div><div>The proposed 430-mile Permian Highway Pipeline project is being developed with Houston oil and gas producer Apache Corp., which has the option to buy a one-third stake in the pipeline. For now, though, Kinder Morgan is a 50-50 partner on the project with Midland-based EagleClaw Midstream. EagleClaw is financially backed by the New York private equity giant Blackstone Group.</div><div>
</div><div>The pipeline would trek from the southern Permian, starting north of Fort Stockton, through much of Texas’ Hill Country and terminate southwest of Houston. From there it would connect to existing pipeline networks to deliver gas to the Houston area, as well as Freeport, Corpus Christi and Mexico, which is increasingly importing more American gas for its power generation.</div><div>
</div><div>The goal is to build and open the pipeline by the end of 2020. Some details of the pipeline’s route are still being finalized.</div><div>
</div><div>Kinder Morgan, one of North America’s largest pipeline companies, already is leading the construction of the $1.7 billion Gulf Coast Express Pipeline that would stretch farther south from the Permian to just west of Corpus Christi in Agua Dulce. Apache is an anchor customer on that project, slated for completion in fall 2019.</div><div>
</div><div>Some of the main uses of the Permian Highway Pipeline are to supply gas for electricity generation in Texas and Mexico and for new liquefied natural gas export complexes under construction in Freeport and Corpus Christi.</div><div>
</div><div>The idea is to provide natural gas producers in the Permian Basin with as many options as possible on where to sell and deliver their gas, said Sital Mody, Kinder Morgan’s chief commercial officer for natural gas pipelines.</div><div>
</div><div>The proposed project would deliver 2 billion cubic feet of gas a day through a 42-inch pipeline system, though Kinder Morgan said it could build a 48-inch pipeline instead if there was enough customer demand.</div><div>
</div><div>One major source of the natural gas is expected to be Apache’s Alpine High development in the southern Permian. Touted as one of the biggest discoveries of the decade, Alpine High is expected to produce plenty of oil and gas.</div><div>
</div><div>The new pipelines are critical to Apache’s plans to develop the play, in a remote area currently without pipelines, terminals and other infrastructure needed to move the petroleum to market.</div><div>
</div><div>Not many competitors are building gas pipelines that traverse Texas.</div><div>
</div><div>Competing projects include the planned Pecos Trail pipeline to Corpus Christi, which is proposed by Houston-based NAmerican Partners, a 3-year-old venture backed by private equity.</div><div>
</div><div>Also, Houston-based Tellurian is developing the proposed Permian Global Access Pipeline, a 625-mile project from West Texas to southwestern Louisiana, to serve Tellurian’s planned Driftwood LNG export terminal and other projects.</div><div>
</div><div>jordan.blum@chron.com</div><div>
</div><div>whoohoo, trend?  maybe temp
Canadian Court Halts Expansion of Trans Mountain Oil Pipeline
The Trans Mountain oil plant in Edmonton, Alberta.]pixBy Ian AustenAug. 30, 2018
OTTAWA — A Canadian court on Thursday froze plans to expand an oil pipeline that the government is about to purchase, ruling that the government’s National Energy Board had not adequately consulted with Indigenous people along the pipeline’s route or assessed the project’s potential effects on the waters off British Columbia.While the practical effect of the decision may be a comparatively short construction delay, the ruling added fuel to an already incendiary debate over the Trans Mountain pipeline that links Alberta’s oil sands to an oil tanker port near Vancouver, British Columbia. The pipeline also branches off to refineries in Washington State.After the pipeline’s owner, Kinder Morgan of Houston, abandoned its plans to add a second pipeline along the existing Trans Mountain route in April, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government stepped in to buy the 715-mile pipeline for 4.5 billion Canadian dollars, or about $3.4 billion. The sale is expected to be completed soon, possibly this week.Environmentalists and some Indigenous groups immediately called the ruling a major victory, and some of them urged Mr. Trudeau’s government to give up on plans for the expansion, which has drawn widespread protests driven by environmental concerns.“It’s a huge court case win,” said Chief Lee Spahan of the Coldwater Indian Band, one of the groups that brought the court challenge. “We want our cultural and traditional ways respected.”The ruling was a setback for Mr. Trudeau, not least because he has repeatedly vowed to consult with Indigenous groups as part of efforts to make amends for past injustices.Mr. Trudeau’s political critics on the right charged that he had bungled the project.“This is just a complete failure for the Trudeau government’s handling of the energy sector,” Andrew Scheer, the leader of the Conservative Party, told reporters. “This is just another gut punch.”But Bill Morneau, the federal finance minister, told reporters in Toronto that the government would still complete the expansion project.“We are absolutely committed to moving ahead with this project,” Mr. Morneau told a news conference in Toronto. “What the decision today asked us to do is to respond promptly.”Mr. Trudeau’s backing of the pipeline, which is not universally popular among his supporters, was to some degree a move to persuade Alberta to join his national carbon-tax program. Alberta’s energy industry, particularly the oil sands, is a major carbon emitter, making the province’s cooperation vital.On Thursday night, however, Rachel Notley, the province’s premier, said that Alberta was withdrawing from the carbon-tax program until construction began on the Trans Mountain extension.“I am announcing that with Trans Mountain halted until the federal government gets its act together, Alberta is pulling out of the federal climate plan,” Ms. Notley said in a speech. “And let’s be clear: Without Alberta, that plan isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.”
Ms. Notley blamed “successive federal governments” for the situation and said that she had told Mr. Trudeau to immediately appeal the decision to the Supreme Court. She also wants the federal Parliament to hold an emergency session to “assert its authority.”
The case against the expansion was brought by several Indigenous groups, the cities of Vancouver and Burnaby, British Columbia, and two environmental groups.
While most of the consultation with Indigenous groups took place under a previous government led by Conservatives, Canada’s Federal Court of Appeal on Thursday found that a final phase during 2016, Mr. Trudeau’s first full year in office, “fell well short of the mark set by the Supreme Court of Canada.”
Specifically, the court found, “very few responses were provided by Canada’s representatives in the consultation meetings.”
It added that “when a response was provided it was brief, and did not further two-way dialogue.”
But improving the process may be a straightforward matter.
The court said that the new set of consultations it had ordered would most likely be “brief and efficient while ensuring it is meaningful,” making for “a short delay” in the pipeline project.
Gordon Christie, a professor of law at the University of British Columbia and a prominent authority on Indigenous legal issues, said that it might take only a few months for the government to engage in more meaningful consultations with Indigenous groups.“This has nothing to do with not building a pipeline,” he said from Vancouver. “All they’re required to do is go back, review the concerns and show that they are going to take them seriously and respond in some way. These are not negotiations.”Nor, he added, does the ruling give Indigenous groups the power to shut down the pipeline project.Chief Spahan said that the Coldwater Band was looking for specific assurances that the expansion would not lead to oil leaks that threatened its drinking water, which comes from wells.“When they moved forward, they totally disregarded Coldwater,” he said. “It was like stabbing us in the back.”
Many people in Canada’s energy industry said they were frustrated and disappointed by the prospect of a further delay to the pipeline expansion.
“We’re just tired of this stuff,” said Chris Bloomer, the president and chief executive of the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association. “We, as an industry, just sit here and go: We’re responsible, we’re safe, what more can we do?”
The expansion will put a second pipeline alongside about 610 miles of the 715-mile Trans Mountain pipeline, which opened in 1953. It will increase the system’s capacity to 890,000 barrels a day, from 300,000, at a cost of $7.4 billion.
Most of the oil sent through the Trans Mountain pipeline heads to the United States, mainly through a spur pipeline. Supporters of the expansion argue that it will open Asia as a second market for Canadian oil.
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<div class="widget__brief" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/kinder-morgan" style="text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;">Kinder Morgan</a>'s Texas subsidiary has announced a $2 billion <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/pipelines" style="text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;">pipeline</a> to transport <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/natural-gas" style="text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;">natural gas</a> from the oil-rich <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/permian-basin" style="text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;">Permian Basin</a>.As the <a href="https://www.chron.com/business/article/Kinder-Morgan-s-2B-pipeline-to-move-gas-from-13025312.php" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;">Houston Chronicle</a> noted, this is Kinder Morgan's first major project announcement since the Canadian government's controversial $4.5 billion (U.S. $3.5 billion) <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/canada-kinder-morgan-pipeline-2573283566.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;">buyout</a> of the company's existing <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/trans-mountain-pipeline" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;">Trans Mountain pipeline</a> and its expansion project. The Trans Mountain expansion is expected to triple the amount of <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/tar-sands" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;">tar sands</a>transported from Alberta to the coast of British Columbia and has been at the center of widespread protests by environmentalists and some Indigenous groups.

... WILL GEORGE - A massive battle to protect indigenous lands in British Columbia, Canada has drawn comparisons to the Standing Rock protests in the North Dakota last year against the Dakota Access Pipeline. At stake in the Canadian struggle has been a major pipeline by North America's largest energy infrastructure corporation, Kinder Morgan. After months of opposition, that included over a hundred arrests, Kinder Morgan has said the pipeline may be untenable, offering a glimpse of a partial victory for indigenous activists. Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau who has sold himself as a climate-friendly leader, has gone as far as offering Kinder Morgan financial incentives to continue the project. Trudeau, who is currently visiting the UK was met by protesters against the pipelines holding signs that read, "Crudeau Oil." For more information visit www.protectheinlet.ca. Will George, spokesperson for Protect the Inlet, member of the Tsleil-waututh Nation==<a href="https://www.alternet.org/environment/greenpeace-co-founder-rex-weyler-arrested-protesting-trans-mountain-pipeline">https://www.alternet.org/environment/greenpeace-co-founder-rex-weyler-arrested-protesting-trans-mountain-pipeline</a>Monday, Greenpeace co-founder Rex Weyler and the children of founding family members were arrested while peacefully protesting the expansion of the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline. They were joined at the independently organized protest on unceded Coast Salish Territories (Vancouver, Canada) by Canadian and American allies who oppose the pipeline for violating Indigenous rights, worsening the effects of global warming, harming the environment and its wildlife, as well as threatening the health and well-being of local communities from Canada to the Pacific Coasts of Washington, Oregon, and California.Rex Weyler, a founding member of Greenpeace, said: “Forty-six years ago, Greenpeace got its start right here in Vancouver protecting this coastline, and the world, from the sorts of ecological disasters and social disruption that Kinder Morgan’s pipeline threatens. Like then, we stand now for protection of the natural bounty that keeps our communities alive and prosperous. We stand here on the land and by the waters of the Tsleil Waututh people, who have shown us generosity and taught us responsibility, in solidarity and prepared to go to jail, to preserve the ecological integrity of this coast for ourselves and future generations.”<div id="TeadsNative" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Barbara and Bob Stowe, daughter and son of Greenpeace founders Dorothy and Irving Stowe, said: “We see a lot of parallels between the fight against Kinder Morgan today, and Greenpeace's first action: sailing a boat to stop nuclear bomb tests in Alaska in 1971. Like Kinder Morgan’s pipeline, those tests did not have Indigenous consent and would devastate a pristine environment. Both projects amounted to a government-approved home invasion on indigenous territory. Today, we will stand with Coast Salish Peoples against it. If our parents were alive today, they'd be standing right here with us.”

A British Columbia judge recently issued an injunction to stifle protests along the route of the Trans Mountain pipeline. Weyler, an American-Canadian who grew up and was educated in the United States, was joined by Barbara and Bobby Stowe, the children of Greenpeace co-founders Dorothy and Irving Stowe. They protested in solidarity with Indigenous and environmental allies, risking arrest to stop construction of the Kinder Morgan pipeline and to prove that Big Oil CEOs won’t succeed in limiting the free speech of concerned citizens and their right to peaceful assembly. This comes against the backdrop of Energy Transfer Partners’ (ETP) <a href="https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/global-warming/greenpeace-v-energy-transfer-partners-facts/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">baseless $900 million lawsuit</a> against Greenpeace and others alleging that independent organizations formed a “criminal enterprise” that instigated violence to damage the company. But the transparent goal of the oil industry is to squelch any and all opposition to its pipelines.Monday's protest, however, continues the overwhelming momentum in the fight to keep the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion from being constructed. Today’s protest was one of several independently planned this week by Canadian and American individuals and follows the recent Indigenous-led <a href="https://www.apnews.com/f1ca00e31fe047c994c5c3b1b0129cf7/Thousands-march-to-protest-Canada-pipeline-expansion-project" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">march of more than 10,000 people</a> who voiced their opposition to the pipeline and its harmful effects, making international news in the process. This was followed by the announcement of Washington Governor Jay Inslee that he too opposes the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion because it would threaten our climate and the existence of the Endangered Southern Resident Killer Whale. Greenpeace applauded Governor Inslee and called for him to continue using the full weight of his influence to ensure the Trans Mountain expansion is never completed, and for his fellow elected officials in Washington, Oregon, and California to do the samePipelines like Trans Mountain, Keystone XL, and Enbridge’s Line 3 worsen the effects of climate change because of their high carbon emissions when oil is extracted and burned. Further, research into Kinder Morgan, Trans Canada, and Enbridge have shown that from 2010 to the present they have had 373 hazardous liquid spills from their U.S. pipeline networks, jeopardizing the safety of drinking water. Further, expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline would increase tar sands oil tanker traffic along the Pacific Coast. The noise these ships make would jeopardize the survival of the Southern Resident Killer Whale, whose numbers have dwindled to just 76 in recent years. And since more tankers mean more spills, any increase in coastal traffic puts marine life and local fish populations at risk, including the tourism and fishing industry jobs they suppor<a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/kinder-morgan-pipeline-protest-2549827169.html">https://www.ecowatch.com/kinder-morgan-pipeline-protest-2549827169.html</a><div class="headline-container" style="margin-top: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h1 class="headline h1" style="margin: 10px; padding: 0px; position: relative; line-height: 31px;">28 Activists Arrested at Kinder Morgan Pipeline Construction Site</h1></div><div id="utm_campaign" style="margin-top: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="body js-expandable clearfix js-listicle-body js-update-url" data-elid="2549827169" data-authors="Olivia Rosane" data-headline="28 Activists Arrested at Kinder Morgan Pipeline Construction Site" style="margin: 10px; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="body-description">Despite a court-ordered injunction barring anyone from coming within 5 meters (approximately 16.4 feet) of two of its BC construction sites, opponents of the <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/kinder-morgan" target="self" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Kinder Morgan</a> Trans Mountain <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/pipelines" style="text-decoration-line: none;">pipeline</a> expansion sent a clear message Saturday that they would not back down...</div></div><a href="http://www.alternet.org/environment/two-arrested-after-shutting-down-kinder-morgan-terminal-escalating-protests-against">http://www.alternet.org/environment/two-arrested-after-shutting-down-kinder-morgan-terminal-escalating-protests-against</a>Richmond, CA) — In a sign of growing escalation, protesters Monday locked themselves to steel barrels and blocked three gates of the Kinder Morgan Richmond Terminal for the second time in two weeks, demanding that the company halt its new Trans Mountain pipeline in Canada. Two were arrested. In what many environmental and Indigenous activists are starting to call the “Standing Rock of the North,” the controversial project would triple the capacity of an existing pipeline from Edmonton, Calgary to Burnaby, British Columbia—an increase to 890,000 barrels per day. This project is based on the extraction of tar sands oil, one of the world’s dirtiest fossil fuels."Our First Nations relatives are not going to allow the Trans Mountain pipeline to go through their territories in Canada,” said Pennie Opal Plant of Idle No More SF Bay.  “Investing in any fossil fuel infrastructure is foolish. We all know that we must transition off of fossil fuels in order to prevent catastrophic climate change. Why waste so many resources on a losing proposition?"The growing Bay Area resistance to this Kinder Morgan pipeline stands with over 140 tribes comprising The Treaty Alliance Against Tar Sands Expansion. The groundbreaking alliance of Indigenous nations formally opposes all tar sands pipelines crossing their traditional lands and waters. The recently elected government of British Columbia also opposes the project."Thanks to California's brand new cap and trade climate bill AB 398, it’s now extremely likely that this very terminal we are blocking today will be a destination point for the tar sands oil that would be piped in by Trans Mountain,” said Andres Soto of Communities for a Better Environment.  “AB 398 is an abomination and a threat to environmental justice worldwide.”AB 398 passed just two weeks earlier despite opposition from a broad coalition of climate and environmental justice groups. The new law blocks the ability of local air quality agencies from establishing rules limiting greenhouse gases and opens up the door for refining tar sands crude in Richmond, which would worsen air pollution in surrounding communities.“From the fence-lines of Richmond, we stand in solidarity with the First Nations fighting on the frontlines of tar sands extraction,” said Adrian Wilson of Diablo Rising Tide. “It is time to start fighting back against these oil companies polluting our communities from the cradle to the grave of the fossil fuel death cycle.”Kinder Morgan, a spin-off from Enron, is one of North America’s largest energy infrastructure companies. The company claims it will start construction on its 715-mile Trans Mountain pipeline in September despite fierce opposition to the project from numerous First Nations and other communities and cities along its path."We salute all the water protectors, coast protectors and climate warriors on the front lines of these pipeline battles, standing up for Indigenous rights, the water and a safe climate,” said Grand Chief Serge Simon of the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake on behalf of the Indigenous Nations who have signed the Treaty Alliance Against Tar Sands Expansion. "Resistance to Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain Expansion tar sands pipeline and tanker project will be strongest in British Columbia, but it won't stop there: Kinder Morgan can count on fierce resistance all over North America by Indigenous People and their allies."“This is clearly just the beginning,” said Patrick McCully of Rainforest Action Network. “This is the second week in a row that activists are blockading this facility — and you can expect protests up and down the West Coast as banks and oil companies continue to try and profit from climate chaos and human rights violations that will be caused by these disastrous tar sands pipelines. Companies like Kinder Morgan are on notice. Banks like JPMorgan Chase are on notice. Get out of tar sands. Get out of extreme oil. Get out of the climate change business and get on the right side of science and history.”http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/ben-west/enron-kinder-morgan_b_3908063.htmlt's shaping up to be another pivotal time in the tar sands pipeline debate here in British Columbia. Just as energy giant Kinder Morgan is ramping up its PR blitz for a massive new pipeline in B.C., the Texas-based multinational corporation has come under fire.Tuesday, <a href="http://docs.hedgeye.com/KinderMorgan_09.10.13.pdf" target="hplink" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;">a new Wall Street investment report called Kinder Morgan a "House of Cards,"</a>singling out what it called the corporation's "high-level business strategy...to starve its pipelines and related infrastructure of routine maintenance spending." This report was aimed at Wall Street investors and advises short-selling the stock.Some of what it outlines should alarm people here in B.C., given that <a href="http://forestethics.org/kinder-morgan-trans-mountain" target="hplink" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Kinder Morgan is planning a massive new Trans Mountain pipeline and tanker project</a> to carry even more toxic tar sands through our province. The proposal also means one giant oil tanker a day through Vancouver's narrow harbour, as opposed to one a week, which it is currently.The Wall Street analyst who labelled Kinder Morgan a "House of Cards" might have had the recent Netflix TV show in mind, but I'm guessing he's also referencing the corporate history involved. You see, Kinder Morgan emerged out of none other than Enron, the infamous energy giant that was tagged as a House of Cards in a book exposing its systemic shenanigans, which among other things tricked its own employees out of their pension funds.Kinder Morgan CEO Richard Kinder is in fact a former Enron executive and almost became its CEO. The Wall Street Journal once called him "the luckiest ex Enron employee" because Jeffrey Skilling, who became the CEO instead of Kinder, is now in the midst of a 24-year prison sentence.Kinder started Kinder Morgan with his 20 million dollar severance package from Enron, and took with him a division for the company, Enron Liquid Pipelines LLP. Kinder Morgan was the originally named Enron Liquid Pipelines LLP. Richard Kinder is now one of the richest people in the world, with over 9 billion dollars in personal net wealth. Given this shoddy history, British Columbians need to subject his whole business model to scrutiny.Kinder Morgan's pipeline plans in B.C. need public debate: Two opportunities to do just that All of this just underlines the need for vigorous public debate and discussion about Kinder Morgan's plans for B.C. I'm no Wall Street investment banker, but what this latest report about Kinder Morgan makes clear is that this corporate giant has one thing in mind when it acquires and builds new pipelines: its own bottom line. And it looks like slashing maintenance costs is its standard business practice. That is reckless and short-term profiteering. This may be part of the reason why Carl Weimer of the US-based Pipeline Safety Trust called Kinder Morgan the "poster child of pipeline problems." What we need in B.C. is responsible, long-term economic investment.When Kinder Morgan's House of Cards comes crashing down, we don't want B.C.'s environment and economy to be part of the collateral damage.<div style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="clear full" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; clear: both; height: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1px !important; overflow: hidden !important;"> </div> Follow Ben West on Twitter: <a href="http://www.twitter.com/BenWest" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;">www.twitter.com/BenWest</a>wikiRichard Kinder was born in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Girardeau,Missouri" title="Cape Girardeau, Missouri" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Cape Girardeau, Missouri</a> in 1944.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Kinder#cite_note-nndb-6" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a> He received a B.A. in 1966 and a J.D. in 1968, both from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Missouri" title="University of Missouri" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">University of Missouri</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Kinder#cite_note-kinder-2" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Kinder#cite_note-businessweek-3" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Kinder#cite_note-nndb-6" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Kinder#cite_note-forbes-7" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[7]</a> In college, he was a member of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigma_Nu" title="Sigma Nu" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Sigma Nu</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraternity" title="Fraternity" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">fraternity</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Kinder#cite_note-nndb-6" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a>He began his career in the energy business as an attorney with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Gas_Transmission" title="Florida Gas Transmission" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Florida Gas Transmission</a>,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Kinder#cite_note-wsj-4" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[4]</a> which eventually became <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron_Corporation" title="Enron Corporation" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Enron Corporation</a>, after a series of <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/history2/57/Enron-Corporation.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" base64="base64" pd94bwwgdmvyc2lvbj0ims4wiiblbmnvzgluzz0ivvrgltgipz48c3znihhtbg5zpsjodhrwoi8vd3d3lnczlm9yzy8ymdawl3n2zyigd2lkdgg9ijewiibozwlnahq9ijewij48zyb0cmfuc2zvcm09inryyw5zbgf0zsgtodi2ljqyosatnjk4ljc5mskipjxyzwn0ihdpzhropsi1ljk4miigagvpz2h0psi1ljk4miiged0iodi2ljkyosiget0inzayljmwosigzmlsbd0ii2zmziigc3ryb2tlpsijmdzjii8="PD94bWwgdmVyc2lvbj0iMS4wIiBlbmNvZGluZz0iVVRGLTgiPz48c3ZnIHhtbG5zPSJodHRwOi8vd3d3LnczLm9yZy8yMDAwL3N2ZyIgd2lkdGg9IjEwIiBoZWlnaHQ9IjEwIj48ZyB0cmFuc2Zvcm09InRyYW5zbGF0ZSgtODI2LjQyOSAtNjk4Ljc5MSkiPjxyZWN0IHdpZHRoPSI1Ljk4MiIgaGVpZ2h0PSI1Ljk4MiIgeD0iODI2LjkyOSIgeT0iNzAyLjMwOSIgZmlsbD0iI2ZmZiIgc3Ryb2tlPSIjMDZjIi8" pgc="PGc" phbhdgggzd0ittgzms4xotqgnjk4ljc5mwg1ljiznhy1ljm5mwwtms41nzegms41ndutms4zms0xljmxltiunzi1idiunzi1ltiunjg5ltiunjg5idiuoda4ltiuoda4lteumzexlteumzexeiigzmlsbd0iiza2ziivpjxwyxroigq9ik04mzuundi0idy5os43otvsljaymia0ljg4ns0xljgxny0xljgxny0yljg4msayljg4ms0xljiyoc0xljiyocayljg4ms0yljg4ms0xljg1ms0xljg1mxoiigzpbgw9iinmzmyilz48l2c="PHBhdGggZD0iTTgzMS4xOTQgNjk4Ljc5MWg1LjIzNHY1LjM5MWwtMS41NzEgMS41NDUtMS4zMS0xLjMxLTIuNzI1IDIuNzI1LTIuNjg5LTIuNjg5IDIuODA4LTIuODA4LTEuMzExLTEuMzExeiIgZmlsbD0iIzA2ZiIvPjxwYXRoIGQ9Ik04MzUuNDI0IDY5OS43OTVsLjAyMiA0Ljg4NS0xLjgxNy0xLjgxNy0yLjg4MSAyLjg4MS0xLjIyOC0xLjIyOCAyLjg4MS0yLjg4MS0xLjg1MS0xLjg1MXoiIGZpbGw9IiNmZmYiLz48L2c" pc9npjwvc3znpg="=" xmlns:data="data">mergers</a> He had been friends with its founder, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Lay" title="Kenneth Lay" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Kenneth Lay</a>, in college.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Kinder#cite_note-wsj-4" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[4]</a> From 1990 to December 1996, he served as its President and COO.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Kinder#cite_note-businessweek-3" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a> He resigned from Enron in 1996 to start a new pipeline company with college friend William V. Morgan, .<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Kinder#cite_note-wsj-4" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[4]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Kinder#cite_note-ovide-5" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[5]</a> They purchased Enron Liquids Pipeline for $40 million.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Kinder#cite_note-wsj-4" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[4]</a> They also merged with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=KN_Energy&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="KN Energy (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">KN Energy</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Kinder#cite_note-wsj-4" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[4]</a> After a number of acquisitions, most prominently <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Paso_Corporation" title="El Paso Corporation" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">El Paso Corporation</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder_Morgan" title="Kinder Morgan" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Kinder Morgan</a> became the largest midstream energy company in North America.He is a life trustee of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Fine_Arts,Houston" title="Museum of Fine Arts, Houston" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Museum of Fine Arts, Houston</a> and serves as Chairman of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kinder_Foundation&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kinder Foundation (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Kinder Foundation</a>. He previously served as a member of the board of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker_Hughes" title="Baker Hughes" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Baker Hughes</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transocean" title="Transocean" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Transocean</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_Management" title="Waste Management" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Waste Management</a>, as a national board member of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smithsonian_Institution" title="Smithsonian Institution" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Smithsonian Institution</a> and is a past Chairman of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Interstate_Natural_Gas_Association_of_America&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Interstate Natural Gas Association of America (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Interstate Natural Gas Association of America</a>. A <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Republican</a>, he campaigned for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,1992" title="United States presidential election, 1992" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Bush-Quayle</a> in 1992, for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W.Bush_presidential_campaign,2004" title="George W. Bush presidential campaign, 2004" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Bush-Cheney</a> in 2004, for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCain_presidential_campaign,2008" title="John McCain presidential campaign, 2008" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">John McCain</a> in 2008, and for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Bailey_Hutchison" title="Kay Bailey Hutchison" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Kay Bailey Hutchison</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_DeLay" title="Tom DeLay" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Tom DeLay</a>.He is worth US$9.4 billion.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Kinder#cite_note-forbes-7" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[7]</a> As such, he is the 41st richest American citizen.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Kinder#cite_note-wsj-4" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[4]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Kinder#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[8]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Kinder#cite_note-houston-9" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[9]</a> He is twice married, with one child from his first marriage.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Kinder#cite_note-forbes-7" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[7]</a> His divorce was in 1996, the same year he left Enron.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Kinder#cite_note-nndb-6" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a> He lives in<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston,Texas" title="Houston, Texas" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Houston, Texas</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Kinder#cite_note-forbes-7" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[7]</a><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Kinder Foundation[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard_Kinder&action=edit&section=2&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Kinder Foundation" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>The Kinders founded the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kinder_Foundation&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kinder Foundation (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Kinder Foundation</a> in an effort to support education and the Greater Houston area by promoting preservation and accessibility to parks and green space. Through the foundation, Kinder donated $15 million to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_University" title="Rice University" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Rice University</a> in 2010 to establish the Kinder Institute for Urban Research.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Kinder#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[10]</a>The foundation has funded projects that include the Bush Center at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Methodist_University" title="Southern Methodist University" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Southern Methodist University</a>, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Heart_Institute" title="Texas Heart Institute" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Texas Heart Institute</a> and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston_Food_Bank" title="Houston Food Bank" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Houston Food Bank</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Kinder#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[11]</a>In October 2013, it was announced that the foundation would give $50 million to the Houston Parks Board for the Bayou Greenways 2020 Project, which connects greenspaces along Houston's bayous and creates parkland.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Kinder#cite_note-CM-12" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[12]</a><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">References[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard_Kinder&action=edit&section=3&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: References" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2><div class="reflist" style="margin-bottom: 0.5em; list-style-type: decimal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><ol class="references" style="line-height: 1.6; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 3.2em; 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background: none;">g</a> Daniel Gilbert, Miguel Bustillo, 'Richard Kinder: New Energy Patch King', in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wall_Street_Journal" title="The Wall Street Journal" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">The Wall Street Journal</a>, October 18, 2011 <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203658804576637443345700456.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" base64="base64" pd94bwwgdmvyc2lvbj0ims4wiiblbmnvzgluzz0ivvrgltgipz48c3znihhtbg5zpsjodhrwoi8vd3d3lnczlm9yzy8ymdawl3n2zyigd2lkdgg9ijewiibozwlnahq9ijewij48zyb0cmfuc2zvcm09inryyw5zbgf0zsgtodi2ljqyosatnjk4ljc5mskipjxyzwn0ihdpzhropsi1ljk4miigagvpz2h0psi1ljk4miiged0iodi2ljkyosiget0inzayljmwosigzmlsbd0ii2zmziigc3ryb2tlpsijmdzjii8="PD94bWwgdmVyc2lvbj0iMS4wIiBlbmNvZGluZz0iVVRGLTgiPz48c3ZnIHhtbG5zPSJodHRwOi8vd3d3LnczLm9yZy8yMDAwL3N2ZyIgd2lkdGg9IjEwIiBoZWlnaHQ9IjEwIj48ZyB0cmFuc2Zvcm09InRyYW5zbGF0ZSgtODI2LjQyOSAtNjk4Ljc5MSkiPjxyZWN0IHdpZHRoPSI1Ljk4MiIgaGVpZ2h0PSI1Ljk4MiIgeD0iODI2LjkyOSIgeT0iNzAyLjMwOSIgZmlsbD0iI2ZmZiIgc3Ryb2tlPSIjMDZjIi8" pgc="PGc" phbhdgggzd0ittgzms4xotqgnjk4ljc5mwg1ljiznhy1ljm5mwwtms41nzegms41ndutms4zms0xljmxltiunzi1idiunzi1ltiunjg5ltiunjg5idiuoda4ltiuoda4lteumzexlteumzexeiigzmlsbd0iiza2ziivpjxwyxroigq9ik04mzuundi0idy5os43otvsljaymia0ljg4ns0xljgxny0xljgxny0yljg4msayljg4ms0xljiyoc0xljiyocayljg4ms0yljg4ms0xljg1ms0xljg1mxoiigzpbgw9iinmzmyilz48l2c="PHBhdGggZD0iTTgzMS4xOTQgNjk4Ljc5MWg1LjIzNHY1LjM5MWwtMS41NzEgMS41NDUtMS4zMS0xLjMxLTIuNzI1IDIuNzI1LTIuNjg5LTIuNjg5IDIuODA4LTIuODA4LTEuMzExLTEuMzExeiIgZmlsbD0iIzA2ZiIvPjxwYXRoIGQ9Ik04MzUuNDI0IDY5OS43OTVsLjAyMiA0Ljg4NS0xLjgxNy0xLjgxNy0yLjg4MSAyLjg4MS0xLjIyOC0xLjIyOCAyLjg4MS0yLjg4MS0xLjg1MS0xLjg1MXoiIGZpbGw9IiNmZmYiLz48L2c" pc9npjwvc3znpg="=" xmlns:data="data">[1]</a></li><li id="cite_note-ovide-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">^ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Kinder#cite_ref-ovide_5-0" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up to:a</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Kinder#cite_ref-ovide_5-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">b</a> Shira Ovide, 'Richard Kinder: The Luckiest Ex-Enron Employee', in The Wall Street Journal, October 17, 2011 <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2011/10/17/richard-kinder-the-luckiest-ex-enron-employee/" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" base64="base64" pd94bwwgdmvyc2lvbj0ims4wiiblbmnvzgluzz0ivvrgltgipz48c3znihhtbg5zpsjodhrwoi8vd3d3lnczlm9yzy8ymdawl3n2zyigd2lkdgg9ijewiibozwlnahq9ijewij48zyb0cmfuc2zvcm09inryyw5zbgf0zsgtodi2ljqyosatnjk4ljc5mskipjxyzwn0ihdpzhropsi1ljk4miigagvpz2h0psi1ljk4miiged0iodi2ljkyosiget0inzayljmwosigzmlsbd0ii2zmziigc3ryb2tlpsijmdzjii8="PD94bWwgdmVyc2lvbj0iMS4wIiBlbmNvZGluZz0iVVRGLTgiPz48c3ZnIHhtbG5zPSJodHRwOi8vd3d3LnczLm9yZy8yMDAwL3N2ZyIgd2lkdGg9IjEwIiBoZWlnaHQ9IjEwIj48ZyB0cmFuc2Zvcm09InRyYW5zbGF0ZSgtODI2LjQyOSAtNjk4Ljc5MSkiPjxyZWN0IHdpZHRoPSI1Ljk4MiIgaGVpZ2h0PSI1Ljk4MiIgeD0iODI2LjkyOSIgeT0iNzAyLjMwOSIgZmlsbD0iI2ZmZiIgc3Ryb2tlPSIjMDZjIi8" pgc="PGc" phbhdgggzd0ittgzms4xotqgnjk4ljc5mwg1ljiznhy1ljm5mwwtms41nzegms41ndutms4zms0xljmxltiunzi1idiunzi1ltiunjg5ltiunjg5idiuoda4ltiuoda4lteumzexlteumzexeiigzmlsbd0iiza2ziivpjxwyxroigq9ik04mzuundi0idy5os43otvsljaymia0ljg4ns0xljgxny0xljgxny0yljg4msayljg4ms0xljiyoc0xljiyocayljg4ms0yljg4ms0xljg1ms0xljg1mxoiigzpbgw9iinmzmyilz48l2c="PHBhdGggZD0iTTgzMS4xOTQgNjk4Ljc5MWg1LjIzNHY1LjM5MWwtMS41NzEgMS41NDUtMS4zMS0xLjMxLTIuNzI1IDIuNzI1LTIuNjg5LTIuNjg5IDIuODA4LTIuODA4LTEuMzExLTEuMzExeiIgZmlsbD0iIzA2ZiIvPjxwYXRoIGQ9Ik04MzUuNDI0IDY5OS43OTVsLjAyMiA0Ljg4NS0xLjgxNy0xLjgxNy0yLjg4MSAyLjg4MS0xLjIyOC0xLjIyOCAyLjg4MS0yLjg4MS0xLjg1MS0xLjg1MXoiIGZpbGw9IiNmZmYiLz48L2c" pc9npjwvc3znpg="=" xmlns:data="data">[2]</a></li><li id="cite_note-nndb-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">^ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Kinder#cite_ref-nndb_6-0" style="text-decoration: none; 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background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up^{</a> }'Rich Kinder is Houston’s richest person, Forbes says', in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston_Business_Journal" title="Houston Business Journal" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Houston Business Journal</a>, September 22, 2011 <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2011/09/21/rich-kinder-is-houstons-richest.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" base64="base64" pd94bwwgdmvyc2lvbj0ims4wiiblbmnvzgluzz0ivvrgltgipz48c3znihhtbg5zpsjodhrwoi8vd3d3lnczlm9yzy8ymdawl3n2zyigd2lkdgg9ijewiibozwlnahq9ijewij48zyb0cmfuc2zvcm09inryyw5zbgf0zsgtodi2ljqyosatnjk4ljc5mskipjxyzwn0ihdpzhropsi1ljk4miigagvpz2h0psi1ljk4miiged0iodi2ljkyosiget0inzayljmwosigzmlsbd0ii2zmziigc3ryb2tlpsijmdzjii8="PD94bWwgdmVyc2lvbj0iMS4wIiBlbmNvZGluZz0iVVRGLTgiPz48c3ZnIHhtbG5zPSJodHRwOi8vd3d3LnczLm9yZy8yMDAwL3N2ZyIgd2lkdGg9IjEwIiBoZWlnaHQ9IjEwIj48ZyB0cmFuc2Zvcm09InRyYW5zbGF0ZSgtODI2LjQyOSAtNjk4Ljc5MSkiPjxyZWN0IHdpZHRoPSI1Ljk4MiIgaGVpZ2h0PSI1Ljk4MiIgeD0iODI2LjkyOSIgeT0iNzAyLjMwOSIgZmlsbD0iI2ZmZiIgc3Ryb2tlPSIjMDZjIi8" pgc="PGc" phbhdgggzd0ittgzms4xotqgnjk4ljc5mwg1ljiznhy1ljm5mwwtms41nzegms41ndutms4zms0xljmxltiunzi1idiunzi1ltiunjg5ltiunjg5idiuoda4ltiuoda4lteumzexlteumzexeiigzmlsbd0iiza2ziivpjxwyxroigq9ik04mzuundi0idy5os43otvsljaymia0ljg4ns0xljgxny0xljgxny0yljg4msayljg4ms0xljiyoc0xljiyocayljg4ms0yljg4ms0xljg1ms0xljg1mxoiigzpbgw9iinmzmyilz48l2c="PHBhdGggZD0iTTgzMS4xOTQgNjk4Ljc5MWg1LjIzNHY1LjM5MWwtMS41NzEgMS41NDUtMS4zMS0xLjMxLTIuNzI1IDIuNzI1LTIuNjg5LTIuNjg5IDIuODA4LTIuODA4LTEuMzExLTEuMzExeiIgZmlsbD0iIzA2ZiIvPjxwYXRoIGQ9Ik04MzUuNDI0IDY5OS43OTVsLjAyMiA0Ljg4NS0xLjgxNy0xLjgxNy0yLjg4MSAyLjg4MS0xLjIyOC0xLjIyOCAyLjg4MS0yLjg4MS0xLjg1MS0xLjg1MXoiIGZpbGw9IiNmZmYiLz48L2c" pc9npjwvc3znpg="=" xmlns:data="data">[3]</a></li><li id="cite_note-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Kinder#cite_ref-10" style="text-decoration: none; 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Rice University. Retrieved 18 November 2013.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARichard+Kinder&rft.btitle=Rice+announces+the+Kinder+Institute+for+Urban+Research&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.rice.edu%2F2010%2F11%2F17%2Frice-announces-the-kinder-institute-for-urban-research-2%2F&rft.pub=Rice+University&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Kinder#cite_ref-11" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.kinderfoundation.org/major-gifts/index.asp" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" base64="base64" pd94bwwgdmvyc2lvbj0ims4wiiblbmnvzgluzz0ivvrgltgipz48c3znihhtbg5zpsjodhrwoi8vd3d3lnczlm9yzy8ymdawl3n2zyigd2lkdgg9ijewiibozwlnahq9ijewij48zyb0cmfuc2zvcm09inryyw5zbgf0zsgtodi2ljqyosatnjk4ljc5mskipjxyzwn0ihdpzhropsi1ljk4miigagvpz2h0psi1ljk4miiged0iodi2ljkyosiget0inzayljmwosigzmlsbd0ii2zmziigc3ryb2tlpsijmdzjii8="PD94bWwgdmVyc2lvbj0iMS4wIiBlbmNvZGluZz0iVVRGLTgiPz48c3ZnIHhtbG5zPSJodHRwOi8vd3d3LnczLm9yZy8yMDAwL3N2ZyIgd2lkdGg9IjEwIiBoZWlnaHQ9IjEwIj48ZyB0cmFuc2Zvcm09InRyYW5zbGF0ZSgtODI2LjQyOSAtNjk4Ljc5MSkiPjxyZWN0IHdpZHRoPSI1Ljk4MiIgaGVpZ2h0PSI1Ljk4MiIgeD0iODI2LjkyOSIgeT0iNzAyLjMwOSIgZmlsbD0iI2ZmZiIgc3Ryb2tlPSIjMDZjIi8" pgc="PGc" phbhdgggzd0ittgzms4xotqgnjk4ljc5mwg1ljiznhy1ljm5mwwtms41nzegms41ndutms4zms0xljmxltiunzi1idiunzi1ltiunjg5ltiunjg5idiuoda4ltiuoda4lteumzexlteumzexeiigzmlsbd0iiza2ziivpjxwyxroigq9ik04mzuundi0idy5os43otvsljaymia0ljg4ns0xljgxny0xljgxny0yljg4msayljg4ms0xljiyoc0xljiyocayljg4ms0yljg4ms0xljg1ms0xljg1mxoiigzpbgw9iinmzmyilz48l2c="PHBhdGggZD0iTTgzMS4xOTQgNjk4Ljc5MWg1LjIzNHY1LjM5MWwtMS41NzEgMS41NDUtMS4zMS0xLjMxLTIuNzI1IDIuNzI1LTIuNjg5LTIuNjg5IDIuODA4LTIuODA4LTEuMzExLTEuMzExeiIgZmlsbD0iIzA2ZiIvPjxwYXRoIGQ9Ik04MzUuNDI0IDY5OS43OTVsLjAyMiA0Ljg4NS0xLjgxNy0xLjgxNy0yLjg4MSAyLjg4MS0xLjIyOC0xLjIyOCAyLjg4MS0yLjg4MS0xLjg1MS0xLjg1MXoiIGZpbGw9IiNmZmYiLz48L2c" pc9npjwvc3znpg="=" xmlns:data="data">"Major Gifts"</a>. Kinder Foundation. Retrieved 18 November 2013.<span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARichard+Kinder&rft.btitle=Major+Gifts&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kinderfoundation.org%2Fmajor-gifts%2Findex.asp&rft.pub=Kinder+Foundation&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-CM-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Kinder#cite_ref-CM_12-0" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up^{</a> }Pugh, Clifford. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://houston.culturemap.com/news/city_life/10-22-13-green-for-greenspace-rich-and-nancy-donate-50-million-to-ambitious-bayou-parks-plan/" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" base64="base64" pd94bwwgdmvyc2lvbj0ims4wiiblbmnvzgluzz0ivvrgltgipz48c3znihhtbg5zpsjodhrwoi8vd3d3lnczlm9yzy8ymdawl3n2zyigd2lkdgg9ijewiibozwlnahq9ijewij48zyb0cmfuc2zvcm09inryyw5zbgf0zsgtodi2ljqyosatnjk4ljc5mskipjxyzwn0ihdpzhropsi1ljk4miigagvpz2h0psi1ljk4miiged0iodi2ljkyosiget0inzayljmwosigzmlsbd0ii2zmziigc3ryb2tlpsijmdzjii8="PD94bWwgdmVyc2lvbj0iMS4wIiBlbmNvZGluZz0iVVRGLTgiPz48c3ZnIHhtbG5zPSJodHRwOi8vd3d3LnczLm9yZy8yMDAwL3N2ZyIgd2lkdGg9IjEwIiBoZWlnaHQ9IjEwIj48ZyB0cmFuc2Zvcm09InRyYW5zbGF0ZSgtODI2LjQyOSAtNjk4Ljc5MSkiPjxyZWN0IHdpZHRoPSI1Ljk4MiIgaGVpZ2h0PSI1Ljk4MiIgeD0iODI2LjkyOSIgeT0iNzAyLjMwOSIgZmlsbD0iI2ZmZiIgc3Ryb2tlPSIjMDZjIi8" pgc="PGc" phbhdgggzd0ittgzms4xotqgnjk4ljc5mwg1ljiznhy1ljm5mwwtms41nzegms41ndutms4zms0xljmxltiunzi1idiunzi1ltiunjg5ltiunjg5idiuoda4ltiuoda4lteumzexlteumzexeiigzmlsbd0iiza2ziivpjxwyxroigq9ik04mzuundi0idy5os43otvsljaymia0ljg4ns0xljgxny0xljgxny0yljg4msayljg4ms0xljiyoc0xljiyocayljg4ms0yljg4ms0xljg1ms0xljg1mxoiigzpbgw9iinmzmyilz48l2c="PHBhdGggZD0iTTgzMS4xOTQgNjk4Ljc5MWg1LjIzNHY1LjM5MWwtMS41NzEgMS41NDUtMS4zMS0xLjMxLTIuNzI1IDIuNzI1LTIuNjg5LTIuNjg5IDIuODA4LTIuODA4LTEuMzExLTEuMzExeiIgZmlsbD0iIzA2ZiIvPjxwYXRoIGQ9Ik04MzUuNDI0IDY5OS43OTVsLjAyMiA0Ljg4NS0xLjgxNy0xLjgxNy0yLjg4MSAyLjg4MS0xLjIyOC0xLjIyOCAyLjg4MS0yLjg4MS0xLjg1MS0xLjg1MXoiIGZpbGw9IiNmZmYiLz48L2c" pc9npjwvc3znpg="=" xmlns:data="data">"Green for greenspace: Rich and Nancy Kinder donate $50 million to ambitious bayou parks plan"</a>. Culture Map Houston. Retrieved 18 November 2013.</li></ol></div>=wikihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder_Morgan_Energy_PartnersKinder Morgan Energy Partners LP (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Stock_Exchange" title="New York Stock Exchange" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">NYSE</a>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nyse.com/about/listed/quickquote.html?ticker=kmp" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" base64="base64" pd94bwwgdmvyc2lvbj0ims4wiiblbmnvzgluzz0ivvrgltgipz48c3znihhtbg5zpsjodhrwoi8vd3d3lnczlm9yzy8ymdawl3n2zyigd2lkdgg9ijewiibozwlnahq9ijewij48zyb0cmfuc2zvcm09inryyw5zbgf0zsgtodi2ljqyosatnjk4ljc5mskipjxyzwn0ihdpzhropsi1ljk4miigagvpz2h0psi1ljk4miiged0iodi2ljkyosiget0inzayljmwosigzmlsbd0ii2zmziigc3ryb2tlpsijmdzjii8="PD94bWwgdmVyc2lvbj0iMS4wIiBlbmNvZGluZz0iVVRGLTgiPz48c3ZnIHhtbG5zPSJodHRwOi8vd3d3LnczLm9yZy8yMDAwL3N2ZyIgd2lkdGg9IjEwIiBoZWlnaHQ9IjEwIj48ZyB0cmFuc2Zvcm09InRyYW5zbGF0ZSgtODI2LjQyOSAtNjk4Ljc5MSkiPjxyZWN0IHdpZHRoPSI1Ljk4MiIgaGVpZ2h0PSI1Ljk4MiIgeD0iODI2LjkyOSIgeT0iNzAyLjMwOSIgZmlsbD0iI2ZmZiIgc3Ryb2tlPSIjMDZjIi8" pgc="PGc" phbhdgggzd0ittgzms4xotqgnjk4ljc5mwg1ljiznhy1ljm5mwwtms41nzegms41ndutms4zms0xljmxltiunzi1idiunzi1ltiunjg5ltiunjg5idiuoda4ltiuoda4lteumzexlteumzexeiigzmlsbd0iiza2ziivpjxwyxroigq9ik04mzuundi0idy5os43otvsljaymia0ljg4ns0xljgxny0xljgxny0yljg4msayljg4ms0xljiyoc0xljiyocayljg4ms0yljg4ms0xljg1ms0xljg1mxoiigzpbgw9iinmzmyilz48l2c="PHBhdGggZD0iTTgzMS4xOTQgNjk4Ljc5MWg1LjIzNHY1LjM5MWwtMS41NzEgMS41NDUtMS4zMS0xLjMxLTIuNzI1IDIuNzI1LTIuNjg5LTIuNjg5IDIuODA4LTIuODA4LTEuMzExLTEuMzExeiIgZmlsbD0iIzA2ZiIvPjxwYXRoIGQ9Ik04MzUuNDI0IDY5OS43OTVsLjAyMiA0Ljg4NS0xLjgxNy0xLjgxNy0yLjg4MSAyLjg4MS0xLjIyOC0xLjIyOCAyLjg4MS0yLjg4MS0xLjg1MS0xLjg1MXoiIGZpbGw9IiNmZmYiLz48L2c" pc9npjwvc3znpg="=" xmlns:data="data">KMP</a>) (KMEP) is a subsidiary of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder_Morgan,Inc." title="Kinder Morgan, Inc." class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Kinder Morgan, Inc.</a> which owns or operates <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum" title="Petroleum" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">petroleum</a> product, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_gas" title="Natural gas" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">natural gas</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide" title="Carbon dioxide" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">carbon dioxide</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipeline_transport" title="Pipeline transport" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">pipelines</a>, related storage facilities, terminals, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_plants" title="Power plants" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">power plants</a> and retail natural gas in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">United States</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada" title="Canada" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Canada</a>. KMEP is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_limited_partnership" title="Master limited partnership" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">master limited partnership</a>.The company, headquartered at One <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Center" title="Allen Center" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Allen Center</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston,Texas" title="Houston, Texas" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Houston, Texas</a>, was co-founded by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Kinder" title="Richard Kinder" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Richard Kinder</a> and William Morgan. The company began in 1997 when Kinder and Morgan purchased the liquid pipeline assets of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron" title="Enron" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Enron</a>, and now employs many former Enron employees, including former Enron whistleblower <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_Mintz" title="Jordan Mintz" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Jordan Mintz</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder_Morgan_Energy_Partners#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a>On March 1, 2002, Shares of Kinder Morgan Inc., fell to a 15-month low on concern that the company faced competition for assets and on investor wariness about its partnership arrangements.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder_Morgan_Energy_Partners#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a> On March 1, 2002, Nova Chemicals Corp. sold its 20-per-cent share of the Cochin pipeline, and the sale, for $64-million (U.S.), is subject to right of first refusal by the other Cochin owners, which include subsidiaries of Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder_Morgan_Energy_Partners#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a> In May 2013, the company acquired <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copano_Energy" title="Copano Energy" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Copano Energy LLC</a> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASDAQ" title="NASDAQ" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">NASDAQ</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/cpno" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" base64="base64" pd94bwwgdmvyc2lvbj0ims4wiiblbmnvzgluzz0ivvrgltgipz48c3znihhtbg5zpsjodhrwoi8vd3d3lnczlm9yzy8ymdawl3n2zyigd2lkdgg9ijewiibozwlnahq9ijewij48zyb0cmfuc2zvcm09inryyw5zbgf0zsgtodi2ljqyosatnjk4ljc5mskipjxyzwn0ihdpzhropsi1ljk4miigagvpz2h0psi1ljk4miiged0iodi2ljkyosiget0inzayljmwosigzmlsbd0ii2zmziigc3ryb2tlpsijmdzjii8="PD94bWwgdmVyc2lvbj0iMS4wIiBlbmNvZGluZz0iVVRGLTgiPz48c3ZnIHhtbG5zPSJodHRwOi8vd3d3LnczLm9yZy8yMDAwL3N2ZyIgd2lkdGg9IjEwIiBoZWlnaHQ9IjEwIj48ZyB0cmFuc2Zvcm09InRyYW5zbGF0ZSgtODI2LjQyOSAtNjk4Ljc5MSkiPjxyZWN0IHdpZHRoPSI1Ljk4MiIgaGVpZ2h0PSI1Ljk4MiIgeD0iODI2LjkyOSIgeT0iNzAyLjMwOSIgZmlsbD0iI2ZmZiIgc3Ryb2tlPSIjMDZjIi8" pgc="PGc" phbhdgggzd0ittgzms4xotqgnjk4ljc5mwg1ljiznhy1ljm5mwwtms41nzegms41ndutms4zms0xljmxltiunzi1idiunzi1ltiunjg5ltiunjg5idiuoda4ltiuoda4lteumzexlteumzexeiigzmlsbd0iiza2ziivpjxwyxroigq9ik04mzuundi0idy5os43otvsljaymia0ljg4ns0xljgxny0xljgxny0yljg4msayljg4ms0xljiyoc0xljiyocayljg4ms0yljg4ms0xljg1ms0xljg1mxoiigzpbgw9iinmzmyilz48l2c="PHBhdGggZD0iTTgzMS4xOTQgNjk4Ljc5MWg1LjIzNHY1LjM5MWwtMS41NzEgMS41NDUtMS4zMS0xLjMxLTIuNzI1IDIuNzI1LTIuNjg5LTIuNjg5IDIuODA4LTIuODA4LTEuMzExLTEuMzExeiIgZmlsbD0iIzA2ZiIvPjxwYXRoIGQ9Ik04MzUuNDI0IDY5OS43OTVsLjAyMiA0Ljg4NS0xLjgxNy0xLjgxNy0yLjg4MSAyLjg4MS0xLjIyOC0xLjIyOCAyLjg4MS0yLjg4MS0xLjg1MS0xLjg1MXoiIGZpbGw9IiNmZmYiLz48L2c" pc9npjwvc3znpg="=" xmlns:data="data">CPNO</a>, closed), which is now assigned under the company's Natural Gas Pipeline section as well as under Product Pipeline section.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder_Morgan_Energy_Partners#cite_note-Acquisition_for_Copnano-4" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[4]</a><div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: none; display: inline; line-height: 1.3; background: none;">Contents</h2>  [<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder_Morgan_Energy_Partners#" class="internal" id="togglelink" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">hide</a>] </div><ul style="line-height: 1.6; list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder_Morgan_Energy_Partners#Regulatory_oversight" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">1 Regulatory oversight</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder_Morgan_Energy_Partners#Facilities" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2 Facilities</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder_Morgan_Energy_Partners#Accidents" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">3 Accidents</a><ul style="line-height: 1.6; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder_Morgan_Energy_Partners#Suisun_Marsh_diesel_spill" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">3.1 Suisun Marsh diesel spill</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder_Morgan_Energy_Partners#Walnut_Creek_gasoline_fire" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">3.2 Walnut Creek gasoline fire</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder_Morgan_Energy_Partners#Burnaby_crude_oil_spill" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">3.3 Burnaby crude oil spill</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder_Morgan_Energy_Partners#Burnaby_Mountain_oil_spill" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">3.4 Burnaby Mountain oil spill</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder_Morgan_Energy_Partners#Abbotsford_oil_spill" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">3.5 Abbotsford oil spill</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder_Morgan_Energy_Partners#References" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4 References</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder_Morgan_Energy_Partners#External_links" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">5 External links</a><ul style="line-height: 1.6; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder_Morgan_Energy_Partners#Kinder_Morgan_information" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">5.1 Kinder Morgan information</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder_Morgan_Energy_Partners#News_articles" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">5.2 News articles</a></li></ul></li></ul></div><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Regulatory oversight[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kinder_Morgan_Energy_Partners&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Regulatory oversight" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>The majority of its pipelines fall under the regulatory oversight of the U.S. Department of Transportation. The company asserts that it is proud of its safety record and follows many regulations and procedures to monitor and ensure the integrity of its pipelines, despite involvement in numerous accidents as outlined below. Interstate natural gas pipelines are subject to the rate and facility regulation of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Energy_Regulatory_Commission" title="Federal Energy Regulatory Commission" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Federal Energy Regulatory Commission</a> under the Natural Gas Act.<h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Facilities[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kinder_Morgan_Energy_Partners&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Facilities" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2><ul style="line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaauaaaanaqmaaabb8jblaaaablbmvex="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX" auow5qsojaaaaaxrstlmaqobyzgaaabnjrefucb1jyeabbqw="AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw" wlcagqeagpidyt0ivcsaaaaasuvork5cyii="); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calnev_Pipeline" title="Calnev Pipeline" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Calnev Pipeline</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Central Florida Pipeline</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Cypress Pipeline System</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Plantation Pipe Line</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Portland Airport Pipeline</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Rockies Express-West Pipeline</li></ul><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Accidents[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kinder_Morgan_Energy_Partners&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Accidents" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>Pipelines operated by this company have been involved in several incidents in the United States.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder_Morgan_Energy_Partners#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[5]</a> Most of the incidents were caused by equipment hitting the pipeline.<h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Suisun Marsh diesel spill<span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kinder_Morgan_Energy_Partners&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Suisun Marsh diesel spill" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>On April 28, 2004, a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum" title="Petroleum" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">petroleum</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipeline_transport" title="Pipeline transport" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">pipeline</a> owned and operated by Kinder Morgan Energy Partners ruptured, spilling an estimated 1,500 barrels (240 m²) of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_fuel" title="Diesel fuel" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">diesel fuel</a> into marshes adjacent to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suisun_Bay" title="Suisun Bay" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Suisun Bay</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder_Morgan_Energy_Partners#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder_Morgan_Energy_Partners#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[7]</a><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Walnut Creek gasoline fire<span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kinder_Morgan_Energy_Partners&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Walnut Creek gasoline fire" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>
Burnaby crude oil spill[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kinder_Morgan_Energy_Partners&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Burnaby crude oil spill" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]
On September 22, 2007 KMGP was convicted on six felony charges related to the Walnut Creek Explosion. They were fined $15 Million in connection with the case.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder_Morgan_Energy_Partners#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[13]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder_Morgan_Energy_Partners#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[14]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder_Morgan_Energy_Partners#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[15]</a>Over $90 Million Dollars in legal settlements were paid to the various victims of the explosion.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder_Morgan_Energy_Partners#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[16]</a>On November 9, 2004 in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walnut_Creek,California" title="Walnut Creek, California" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Walnut Creek, California</a>, a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum" title="Petroleum" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">petroleum</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipeline_transport" title="Pipeline transport" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">pipeline</a> carrying gasoline to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Jose,California" title="San Jose, California" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">San Jose</a> owned and operated by Kinder Morgan Energy Partners (KMEP) was struck by a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backhoe" title="Backhoe" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">backhoe</a> used by Mountain Cascade Inc. (MC), a contractor operating in the construction of a water pipeline for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Bay_Municipal_Utility_District" title="East Bay Municipal Utility District" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">East Bay Municipal Utility District</a> (EBMUD). A massive <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasoline" title="Gasoline" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">gasoline</a> spill was subsequently ignited, likely by the unaware welders of subcontractor Matamoros Welding<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder_Morgan_Energy_Partners#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[8]</a> working inside the steel water pipe, resulting in an explosive fireball that caused the deaths, by burns, of four workers and one supervisor and the severe injury of four others. Several nearby homes were ignited and one was partially destroyed. The fire burned for several hours before being brought under control by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefighters" title="Firefighters" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">firefighters</a> from departments throughout the central <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contra_Costa_County,California" title="Contra Costa County, California" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Contra Costa County</a> region. CalOSHA (California Occupational Safety and Health Administration) cited KMGP Services Company (a subsidiary of Kinder Morgan) for failure to accurately stake-out the pipeline location.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder_Morgan_Energy_Partners#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[9]</a> On Wednesday, July 7, 2005, the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://osfm.fire.ca.gov/aboutus.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" base64="base64" pd94bwwgdmvyc2lvbj0ims4wiiblbmnvzgluzz0ivvrgltgipz48c3znihhtbg5zpsjodhrwoi8vd3d3lnczlm9yzy8ymdawl3n2zyigd2lkdgg9ijewiibozwlnahq9ijewij48zyb0cmfuc2zvcm09inryyw5zbgf0zsgtodi2ljqyosatnjk4ljc5mskipjxyzwn0ihdpzhropsi1ljk4miigagvpz2h0psi1ljk4miiged0iodi2ljkyosiget0inzayljmwosigzmlsbd0ii2zmziigc3ryb2tlpsijmdzjii8="PD94bWwgdmVyc2lvbj0iMS4wIiBlbmNvZGluZz0iVVRGLTgiPz48c3ZnIHhtbG5zPSJodHRwOi8vd3d3LnczLm9yZy8yMDAwL3N2ZyIgd2lkdGg9IjEwIiBoZWlnaHQ9IjEwIj48ZyB0cmFuc2Zvcm09InRyYW5zbGF0ZSgtODI2LjQyOSAtNjk4Ljc5MSkiPjxyZWN0IHdpZHRoPSI1Ljk4MiIgaGVpZ2h0PSI1Ljk4MiIgeD0iODI2LjkyOSIgeT0iNzAyLjMwOSIgZmlsbD0iI2ZmZiIgc3Ryb2tlPSIjMDZjIi8" pgc="PGc" phbhdgggzd0ittgzms4xotqgnjk4ljc5mwg1ljiznhy1ljm5mwwtms41nzegms41ndutms4zms0xljmxltiunzi1idiunzi1ltiunjg5ltiunjg5idiuoda4ltiuoda4lteumzexlteumzexeiigzmlsbd0iiza2ziivpjxwyxroigq9ik04mzuundi0idy5os43otvsljaymia0ljg4ns0xljgxny0xljgxny0yljg4msayljg4ms0xljiyoc0xljiyocayljg4ms0yljg4ms0xljg1ms0xljg1mxoiigzpbgw9iinmzmyilz48l2c="PHBhdGggZD0iTTgzMS4xOTQgNjk4Ljc5MWg1LjIzNHY1LjM5MWwtMS41NzEgMS41NDUtMS4zMS0xLjMxLTIuNzI1IDIuNzI1LTIuNjg5LTIuNjg5IDIuODA4LTIuODA4LTEuMzExLTEuMzExeiIgZmlsbD0iIzA2ZiIvPjxwYXRoIGQ9Ik04MzUuNDI0IDY5OS43OTVsLjAyMiA0Ljg4NS0xLjgxNy0xLjgxNy0yLjg4MSAyLjg4MS0xLjIyOC0xLjIyOCAyLjg4MS0yLjg4MS0xLjg1MS0xLjg1MXoiIGZpbGw9IiNmZmYiLz48L2c" pc9npjwvc3znpg="=" xmlns:data="data">California State Fire Marshal</a> assessed a fine of $500,000 upon KMGP, the largest ever levied within the state.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder_Morgan_Energy_Partners#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[10]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder_Morgan_Energy_Partners#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[11]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder_Morgan_Energy_Partners#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[12]</a>On July 24, 2007, a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crude_oil" title="Crude oil" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">crude oil</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipeline_transport" title="Pipeline transport" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">pipeline</a> owned and operated by Kinder Morgan Energy Partners was ruptured by an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excavator" title="Excavator" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">excavator</a> digging a storm sewer trench. The rupute was a few hundred meters from the final location at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Westridge_Marine_Terminal&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Westridge Marine Terminal (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Westridge Marine Terminal</a>. It resulted in 234,000 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litres" title="Litres" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">litres</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crude" title="Crude" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">crude</a> oil being released into the residential neighborhood and the ocean near Inlet Drive in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnaby,British_Columbia" title="Burnaby, British Columbia" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Burnaby, British Columbia</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder_Morgan_Energy_Partners#cite_note-Burnaby-17" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[17]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder_Morgan_Energy_Partners#cite_note-18" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[18]</a> The crude oil sprayed 11 houses on Inlet Drive and caused an evacuation of the area, forcing 250 residents from their homes.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder_Morgan_Energy_Partners#cite_note-19" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[19]</a> Approximately 70,000 litres of the oil flowed into <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burrard_Inlet" title="Burrard Inlet" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Burrard Inlet</a>, the resulting cleanup costing more than $15 million. The cleanup operation ultimately recovered 210,000 litres of oil from the Inlet and coastline.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder_Morgan_Energy_Partners#cite_note-Burnaby-17" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[17]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder_Morgan_Energy_Partners#cite_note-TSB-20" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[20]</a>The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_Safety_Board" title="Transportation Safety Board" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Transportation Safety Board</a> released a report on the incident in 2009 which concluded that the pipe, which was 610 mm in diameter, was struck and punctured by a contractor’s excavator bucket during excavation of a trench for a new storm sewer line along Inlet Drive in Burnaby.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder_Morgan_Energy_Partners#cite_note-TSB-20" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[20]</a> On October 3, 2011 three companies—two contractors and Kinder Morgan—each entered <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guilty_plea" title="Guilty plea" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">guilty pleas</a> to a 21-count indictment in Provincial Court. The Crown sought a sentence of a $1,000 fine and a $149,000 contribution to the Habitat Conservation Trust Foundation, which works to protect B.C.'s fish, wildlife and habitats. Kinder Morgan was also asked to contribute $100,000 to an educational and training program.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder_Morgan_Energy_Partners#cite_note-21" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[21]</a><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Burnaby Mountain oil spill<span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kinder_Morgan_Energy_Partners&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Burnaby Mountain oil spill" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>On May 6, 2009, a contractor discovered that oil was leaking from one of the tanks Kinder Morgan's Burnaby Mountain terminal. In total, almost 200,000 litres of crude oil were spilled. Fire and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dangerous_goods" title="Dangerous goods" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">HazMat teams</a> were called to the scene and contained the spill.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder_Morgan_Energy_Partners#cite_note-22" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[22]</a><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Abbotsford oil spill<span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kinder_Morgan_Energy_Partners&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Abbotsford oil spill" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>On January 24, 2012 an oil spill was discovered at Kinder Morgan's Sumas terminal in Abbotsford. Local residents began reporting a strong gas-like smell coming from the area as early as 4:30 a.m. The spill was reported to be limited to a "containment area." <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder_Morgan_Energy_Partners#cite_note-23" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[23]</a>

bs bioRich and Nancy Kinder established the Kinder Foundation in 1997 to provide major gifts to public causes with the intention of helping people realize healthy and rewarding lives. Since then, the Foundation has focused its grants on projects and programs that enhance urban green space, education and quality of life in the Houston area.Richard D. Kinder grew up in Cape Girardeau, Missouri and holds undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Missouri. He is co-founder, chairman and CEO of Kinder Morgan (<a href="http://www.kindermorgan.com/about_us/about_us_rich_kinder.cfm" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">see full bio</a>). Rich has served on numerous corporate and nonprofit boards. He is chair of the board of trustees and a life trustee of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and chairman of the advisory board of Rice University’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research..Nancy Goins Kinder (<a>see full bio</a>) is originally from New Iberia, Louisiana and attended the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She is a focused philanthropist and serves on several boards for the advancement of Houston, the arts, and the health and protection of children. Nancy is the founding chairman of Discovery Green Conservancy, a nonprofit organization that worked in partnership with the City of Houston and other Houston foundations to develop an urban park in downtown Houston. She has also dedicated her time to serving on the board of trustees of The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and is currently on the board of directors of DePelchin Children’s Center Foundation, Discovery Green Corporation and MD Anderson Cancer Center. She is the president of the advisory board of Rice University’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research and also president of the Kinder Foundation.Rich and Nancy both grew up in small towns (in Missouri and Louisiana respectively). In their adult lives, they have witnessed first hand the extraordinary culture of entrepreneurship of their longtime home city of Houston. The Kinder Foundation's mission is to enable the Greater Houston community to flourish by providing sizable, impactful gifts to projects dedicated primarily to three key areas: <a href="http://www.kinderfoundation.org/major-gifts/urban-green-space.asp" style="text-decoration: none;">urban green space</a>,<a href="http://www.kinderfoundation.org/major-gifts/education.asp" style="text-decoration: none;">education</a> and <a href="http://www.kinderfoundation.org/major-gifts/quality-of-life.asp" style="text-decoration: none;">quality of life</a> issues. The Kinder Foundation has granted more than $230 million in gifts and pledges to date.

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T'S DIRTY WORK, BUT ...

Pipeline builder says oil spills can be good for the economy

By John Upton

Mic Stolz

Kinder Morgan's idea of job creation.

Kinder Morgan wants to spend $5.4 billion tripling the capacity of an oil pipeline between the tar sands of Alberta and the Vancouver, B.C., area. Yes, the company acknowledges, there's always the chance of a "large pipeline spill." But it says the "probability" of such an accident is "low." And anyway, if a spill does happen, it could be an economic boon.

"Spill response and cleanup" after oil pipeline ruptures, such as the emergency operations near Kalamazoo, Mich., in 2010 and in theArkansas community of Mayflower last year, create “business and employment opportunities for affected communities, regions, and cleanup service providers,” the company argues.

Those aren't the outrageous comments of a company executive shooting off his mouth while a reporter happened to be neaby. Those are quotes taken from an official document provided to the Canadian government in support of the company's efforts to expand its pipeline.

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U.S. Quadruples Pipeline Tax Break Cost to $7 Billion

<div id="story_meta"><cite class="byline">By Zachary R. Mider and Richard Rubin - Feb 21, 2013</cite></div>

A tax break used by oil and gas pipeline companies such as <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/KMP:US" title="Get Quote" class="web_ticker">Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP (KMP)</a> will cost the U.S. government $7 billion through 2016, about four times more than previously estimated, Congress’s tax scorekeepers said this month.

The nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation quadrupled its cost <a href="https://www.jct.gov/publications.html?func=startdown&id=4503" title="Open Web Site" rel="external">estimate</a> for exempting the fast-growing “master limited partnerships” from corporate income tax in the year ended in September to $1.2 billion from $300 million. The annual cost will rise to $1.6 billion by fiscal 2016, the committee said.

The revision reflects the growth of tax-free publicly traded partnerships. They have taken over the U.S. pipeline business and are expanding into the rest of the oil and gas industry, partly by gobbling up dozens of tax-paying companies. With President <a href="http://topics.bloomberg.com/barack-obama/">Barack Obama</a> and congressional Republicans calling for a tax overhaul, the higher cost estimate may make it harder for industry to protect the MLP subsidy, said <a href="http://topics.bloomberg.com/john-buckley/">John Buckley</a>, a tax professor at <a href="http://topics.bloomberg.com/georgetown-university-law-center/">Georgetown University Law Center</a>.

“A bigger number always means it’s a bigger target,” said Buckley, who as a Democratic congressional aide helped draft the 1987 law that included the partnership exemption.

Canada ended a similar break in 2011, saving an estimated $500 million a year.

<h2>Wind, Solar</h2>

Lawmakers led by Senator <a href="http://topics.bloomberg.com/chris-coons/">Chris Coons</a>, a Delaware Democrat, are pursuing a proposal to extend the MLP break to renewable energy companies such as wind and solar-power producers. Proponents in both chambers of Congress introduced bills last year that failed to win passage.

Coons plans to reintroduce the bill in March, said Ian Koski, a spokesman for the senator.

The estimate increased primarily because the latest data show MLP’s are generating more income than before, said Thomas Barthold, the chief of staff of the committee, in an e-mail.

The market value of the MLP industry has grown to about $370 billion, more than double its size as recently as 2009, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Pretax income for about 90 MLP’s rose to a record $16.9 billion in 2011, <a href="http://topics.bloomberg.com/bloomberg-news/">Bloomberg News</a> reported last month.

Last year, the committee <a href="https://www.jct.gov/publications.html?func=startdown&id=4386" title="Open Web Site" rel="external">estimated the cost</a> of the MLP exemption at $1.4 billion for the four years ended in 2015. The new estimate pegs the cost during those same four years at about $5.4 billion.

<h2>Linn Acquisition</h2>

Today, <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/LINE:US" title="Get Quote" class="web_ticker">Linn Energy LLC (LINE)</a>, a Houston-based publicly traded partnership that produces oil and gas, said it agreed to buy <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/BRY:US" title="Get Quote" class="web_ticker">Berry Petroleum Co. (BRY)</a> for $2.42 billion. It’s the first time a publicly traded partnership has bought a listed oil and gas producer that’s a tax-paying corporation, or “C-Corp,” Linn said in a statement.

The transaction will “demonstrate how much value can be created by tax-efficiently converting a C-Corp with the right assets into an MLP,” said Kolja Rockov, Linn’s chief financial officer, on a conference call.

Berry, based in Denver, set aside $81.3 million for corporate income taxes in the first three quarters of 2012, after recording a $142.2 million tax benefit in 2011 because of a net loss.

MLP’s don’t pay corporate income taxes because they’re structured as partnerships, and they don’t distribute taxable dividends. Individual members pay personal income tax on any profits, offsetting to some extent the government’s loss of revenue.

<h2>Energy Exception</h2>

In 1987, six years after large businesses started forming publicly traded partnerships, Congress passed a law requiring them to pay the same taxes as corporations, a rate that is currently 35 percent.

The law included an exception for industries involving oil and gas and other natural resources. Since then, the pipeline industry has mostly shifted to the partnership structure. Two of the biggest are Houston-based <a href="http://topics.bloomberg.com/kinder-morgan/">Kinder Morgan</a>, run by billionaire <a href="http://topics.bloomberg.com/richard-kinder/">Richard Kinder</a>, and Enterprise Products Partners LP.

The law spurs investment in energy infrastructure that outweighs the cost of the lost tax revenue, said Mary Lyman, the executive director of the <a href="http://naptp.org/" title="Open Web Site" rel="external">National Association of Publicly Traded Partnerships</a>. She said MLP’s that transport and store oil and gas spent $113 billion on <a href="http://topics.bloomberg.com/capital-investment/">capital investment</a> from 2007 to 2012.

<h2>Good Ratio</h2>

“You compare that to even the higher estimate. That seems like a good benefit to cost ratio,” Lyman said.

Corporate tax overhauls outlined by both Obama and <a href="http://topics.bloomberg.com/dave-camp/">Dave Camp</a>, the Republican chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, would lower the corporate <a href="http://topics.bloomberg.com/tax-rate/">tax rate</a> while eliminating some breaks. Any reduction in the corporate rate would lower the cost of the subsidy for MLP’s, even if their special tax status is left in place, Buckley said.

Investor demand for MLP equity securities, known as partnership units, has led a variety of companies from outside of the pipeline business to convert to the form. New MLPs that went public in the past two years include <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/UAN:US" title="Get Quote" class="web_ticker">CVR Partners LP (UAN)</a>, which uses refinery byproducts to make fertilizer, and <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/HCLP:US" title="Get Quote" class="web_ticker">Hi-Crush Partners LP (HCLP)</a>, which digs up the sand used in the hydraulic fracturing of oil and gas wells.

Congress expanded the break in 2008 to include companies that transport and store biofuels such as ethanol.

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<h2>Proposed projects</h2>

In February 2012, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NiSource" title="NiSource">NiSource</a> Gas Transmission and Storage's (NGT&S) Midstream Services announced plans for a pipeline for the Utica play in eastern Ohio. The project also includes a 200 million cubic feet per day cryogenic natural gas liquids processing plant that will be delivered in July 2012. The plant and related facilities will be located in Harrison County and will process gas flowing from both the north and south.

NGT&S will also construct a dry gas line originating from the tailgate of the processing plant that will also gather additional dry gas produced in the Utica trend. The system will ultimately deliver gas to multiple interconnects including Texas Eastern (Spectra), Rocky Mountain Express (Kinder Morgan) and Columbia Gas. The project is expected to provide an initial transportation and processing capacity of 200 million cubic feet per day.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ohio_and_fracking#cite_note-33">[34]</a>

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forbes Richard Kinder's personal fortune is up an astounding $3 billion in the past year, due largely to a 50% increase in the value of his shares in Kinder Morgan, the gas and oil pipeline company he founded in 1997. In October 2011, Kinder Morgan announced it would buy up El Paso Corp for $21.1 billion, creating a natural gas pipeline network of 67,000 miles, the largest in the country. A former Army captain,Kinder quit as Enron president in 1996 and built a pipeline company with friend William Morgan. He earned both bachelor and law degrees from the University of Missouri. His $78 million (assets) Kinder Foundation is devoted to enhancing quality of life in Houston. With wife Nancy, Kinder donated $15 million to Rice University in 2010 to endow the school's Institute for Urban Research.

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2006 buyout

<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/redirect/marketwatch/redirect.ctx?MW=http://custom.marketwatch.com/custom/nyt-com/html-companyprofile.asp&symb=KMI" title="Kinder Morgan Inc." style="text-decoration: underline;">Kinder Morgan Inc.</a>, one of the largest pipeline operators in the country, said today it had agreed to a sweetened buyout offer of $15 billion from an investor group led by the company’s chairman and co-founder, Richard D. Kinder.

The buyers, who plan to take the company private, agreed to raise their cash offer to $107.50 a share, from an earlier offer of $100 a share made in May.

In addition, the buyers will assume $7 billion of Kinder Morgan debt, valuing the total deal at $22 billion, the Houston-based company said in a statement. The transaction ranks as the largest leveraged buyout since Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company bought RJR Nabisco in 1989 for $25 billion.

The buyout is led by Mr. Kinder, a former president of Enron who was ousted after a dispute with Enron’s founder, <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/l/kenneth_l_lay/index.html?inline=nyt-per" title="More articles about Kenneth L. Lay." style="text-decoration: underline;">Kenneth L. Lay</a>. The investor group also includes <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/redirect/marketwatch/redirect.ctx?MW=http://custom.marketwatch.com/custom/nyt-com/html-companyprofile.asp&symb=GS" title="Goldman Sachs" style="text-decoration: underline;">Goldman Sachs</a> Capital Partners, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/redirect/marketwatch/redirect.ctx?MW=http://custom.marketwatch.com/custom/nyt-com/html-companyprofile.asp&symb=AIG" title="American International Group" style="text-decoration: underline;">American International Group</a>, Inc., The Carlyle Group, and Riverstone Holdings LLC.

Kinder Morgan’s board accepted the new offer and will recommend that its shareholders approve it. The company’s shares rose to $104.20, a gain of 2.5 percent.

Some investors had criticized the initial offer as too low and had threatened to sue the company. At the time, that offer represented an 18.5 percent premium for Kinder Morgan shares. The new offer amounts to a 27 percent premium on Kinder Morgan’s closing share price of $84.41 on May 26, the last trading day before the initial offer was made.

Kinder Morgan operates about 43,000 miles of pipelines carrying natural gas, oil, petroleum products and carbon dioxide. It also runs more than 150 terminals for gasoline and other petroleum products and provides natural gas distribution service to over 1.1 million customers.

Among its larger assets, Kinder Morgan owns Plantation Pipelines, one of the nation’s main transportation networks for petroleum products, carrying gasoline from refineries on the Gulf Coast to markets on the Atlantic Coast.

Mr. Kinder has been called the anti-Ken Lay. Enron’s chairman blocked Mr. Kinder’s career at Enron and pushed him out in favor of Jeffrey Skilling, who became president and chief executive after Mr. Kinder left. Under the new leadership, Enron shunned its traditional businesses in favor of more lucrative, and riskier, trading activities. It collapsed in 2001, and Mr. Skilling and Mr. Lay were convicted on charges of fraud and conspiracy. Mr. Lay died last month of a heart attack.

Kinder Morgan is largely the result of strategies implemented by Mr. Kinder after he left Enron in 1996. At the time, he took over Enron’s stodgy pipeline assets and quickly expanded the business through a series of mergers and acquisitions.

In 1999, for example, he engineered a merger between Kinder Morgan <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/redirect/marketwatch/redirect.ctx?MW=http://custom.marketwatch.com/custom/nyt-com/html-companyprofile.asp&symb=EPL" title="Energy Partners" style="text-decoration: underline;">Energy Partners</a>and KN Energy, a gas utility in the Midwest. That deal was followed by a number of smaller acquisitions that expanded its holdings in storage terminals, distribution networks and other so-called midstream assets.

Bolstered by high energy prices, Kinder Morgan’s latest project is to build a $4 billion, 1,300-mile natural gas pipeline linking the Rocky Mountains to markets in the East. Nicknamed the Rockies Express, the project would be one of the biggest new pipelines constructed in the United States in more than two decades.

Among the investors in the buyout are Mr. Kinder; William Morgan, the company’s co-founder; and two current directors, Fayez S. Sarofim, the billionaire financier, and Mike Morgan, William’s Morgan son.

Mr. Kinder owns 24 million shares of Kinder Morgan, or 18 percent of the company.

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