More and more Pipelines but No real oversight.

http://america.aljazeera.com/blogs/scrutineer/2015/4/21/gas-and-oil-pipelines-regulated-by-absentee-agency.html?utm_content=main&utm_campaign=ajam&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=SocialFlow

Who watches the nation’s vast and rapidly expanding network of gas and oil pipelines? Pretty much no one, it seems.
OK, that is not exactly true. The United States has the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), which is nominally the regulatory body for interstate pipelines, but according to a story published today in Politico, the name might sound willing, but the body is weak.
“There is nowhere today the sense that the Office of Pipeline Safety is in charge,” remarked then-NTSB Chairman Jim Hall about a 1999 accident, and, as Politico tells it, that is still the story today.