Olympic Pipeline Explosion


Carl Weimer, director of the Pipeline Safety Trust, talked about the day of the Olympic Pipeline explosion and the explosion’s national impact. On June 10, 1999, a gasoline pipeline operated by Olympic Pipeline Company exploded in Bellingham, Washington’s Whatcom Falls Park. Three boys died in the explosion. The explosion led to the creation of the Pipeline Safety Trust, which was one of the only pipeline safety groups in the country advocating for federal pipeline safety regulation.

C-SPAN’s Local Content Vehicles (LCVs) made a stop in their “2013 LCV Cities Tour” in Bellingham, Washington, from December 9-12 to feature the history and literary life of the community. Working with the Comcast local affiliate, they visited literary and historic sites where local historians, authors, and civic leaders were interviewed. The history segments air on American History TV (AHTV) on C-SPAN3 and the literary events/non-fiction author segments air on BookTV on C-SPAN2. close