Kinder Morgan, Inc. — Ethics Grade C-

Kinder Morgan, Inc. receives an overall ethics grade of C- (44/100) on CancelCo's corporate accountability database. Sector: Energy. Market cap: Large Cap.

Category scores

• labor: 52
• privacy: 78
• consumer: 58
• environment: 30
• humanRights: 40

Documented incidents (3)

• Permian Highway Pipeline Fluid Spill (high, 2020) — During underground drilling operations in Texas, the pipeline construction ruptured a karst geological formation, discharging thousands of gallons of drilling fluid directly into regional aquifer systems used for domestic tap water.
• Eminent Domain Land Disputes (medium, 2021) — Faced heavy litigation and community standoffs for leveraging eminent domain statutory structures to seize private residential holdings and agricultural parcels across Southern states to build high-pressure natural gas lines.
• PHMSA Regulatory Compliance Violations (medium, 2022) — Federal pipeline safety agencies assessed civil penalties against the firm following standard compliance audits that revealed overdue corrosion testing and un-remediated integrity anomalies on active transport mainlines.

Documented good deeds

• Carbon Capture Pipeline Repurposing — Allocated substantial capital infrastructure toward designing dedicated transport networks specifically intended to move sequestered carbon dioxide to deep geological storage facilities.

Ethical alternatives

• Orsted A/S — Completely transitioned corporate focus from legacy fossil midstream architecture to international utility-scale offshore wind farms.