Industry Highlights

According to a recent research report, natural gas infrastructure is resilient to storm damage because it’s largely underground.  However, the report recommends improvements in terms of [...]

Lessons learned might be one of the most misused terms in emergency preparedness, because of the so-called lessons learned trap.  This is based on a very thought-provoking article from the Ottawa [...]

Columbia Gas President Steve Bryant made a crucial mistake during his press conference after the Columbia Gas explosions.  It’s important to take a hard look at his words, as several [...]

CrowdSource Rescue is a new web-based platform created in the spirit of emergency response.  It was most recently used in the Florida panhandle to locate people after Hurricane Michael, as the [...]

Recent hurricanes and tropical storms have resulted in a unique problem – the overflow of millions of gallons of untreated wastewater into areas surrounding treatment facilities, including into [...]

I still remember it well – all hell broke loose in March 2011 when the largest earthquake Japan has ever seen (magnitude 9.0) created an equally massive tsunami that leveled the country and [...]

At long last, the bill known as America’s Water Infrastructure Act (AKA Senate Bill 2800) has been approved by both the House and the Senate and is now under presidential review.  Talk about [...]

I recently read an article that described a mass casualty event drill conducted by Lakeland Hospital in September 2018.  The hospital conducts similar drills annually, each time focusing on a [...]

According to the Energy Information Administration (EIA), both the path and the size of a hurricane are the biggest factors that determine its impact on oil and gas production.  It’s [...]

On Wednesday, 10/3/18, tens of millions of U.S. citizens received a text from the president as part of a test of FEMA’s Wireless Emergency Alert System (WEA).  The objective of the WEA is to send [...]