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We thought the Yellowstone River oil spill this past summer was a little close for comfort. Well, guess what. We got word late yesterday afternoon, with some additional information trickling in to us today that a 10-inch 
Conoco-Phillips pipeline, pumping unleaded gasoline from Billings to Spokane is suffering a “slow drop in pressure” somewhere between Pritchard and Cataldo. The current focus of attention is in the Enaville to Cataldo stretch. From an email from Sandy Von Behren in Kootenai County’s Department of Emergency Management: “Yellowstone Pipeline (Conoco/Phillips) identified a small reduction in pressure in their 10” high pressure petroleum pipeline between Prichard and Cataldo this past Saturday. Yellowstone reps have walked the entire line between Prichard and Cataldo and have not located any indication of the leak on the surface”/Terry Harris, Kootenai Environmental Alliance. More here. (Jesse Tinsley SR file photo: A great blue heron wolfs down a fish in the Medimont area of the chain lakes in the Coeur d’Alene River basin)
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D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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coeurgenx on October 05 at 1:16 p.m.
this cant be a good thing…
MJHart on October 05 at 1:19 p.m.
Gettin’ my gas cans together and headin’ for the Snake Pit.
Mention on October 05 at 4:28 p.m.
Sounds like they are taking the correct measures to fix the problem. How much fuel did they loose before they shut down the pipeline is the real question. At least it’s a light product, and not a heavy product.