Bio
| Carl Weimer is the Special Projects Advisor of the Pipeline Safety Trust. He serves as the Co-chair of API’s Pipeline Public Engagement recommended practice technical group. From 2003 – 2020 he was the Executive Director of the Pipeline Safety Trust, and served as a member of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Technical Hazardous Liquid Pipeline Safety Standards Committee, the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association’s External Advisory Panel, the governor appointed Washington Citizen Committee on Pipeline Safety, and three technical pipeline standard committees. Carl has testified to the U.S. House and Senate multiple times, as a witness by the National Transportation Safety Board, and was honored in 2015 as a Champion of Change by the White House for his pipeline safety efforts. He has organized fifteen national pipeline safety conferences, and regularly serves as an independent source of pipeline safety information for news media, local government, and citizens around the country. Carl was elected and served for 12 years on the Whatcom County Council, and was Chairman of the Council for four of those years. He has a degree in Natural Resources and Environmental Education from the University of Michigan, as well a degree in Industrial Electronics Technology from Peninsula College. |