From: otterpower@xhotmail.com

On 5/15/2014 8:41 PM, Nobody wrote:
> On Thu, 15 May 2014 13:05:09 +0000 (UTC), "Adam H. Kerman"
>  wrote:
>
>> For those of you on Usenet so enamored of the safety record of pipelines
>> for transportation of oil, you may not want to read about last night's
>> disaster:
>>
>> A ruptured oil pipe near the suburb of Glendale has spilled about
>> 10,000 gallons of crude oil onto streets; initial reports had the spill
>> at 50,000 gallons. The leak from a 20 inch pipe was reported as 12:15
>> am. Thursay, May 15, 2014. It was shut off remotely within 10 minutes of
>> firemen arriving. Despite the shut off, the spill continued for at least
>> 45 minutes.
>>
>> A strip club had to be evacuated.
>>
>> The pipe was under pressure; oil was seen shooting 20 feet into the sky.
>>
>> The oil came from Bakersfield. It's a pumping transfer station sending
>> oil to a storage facility near Bakersfield.
>
> And don't forget, at some stage, to relate that this was an
> above-ground structure, not an underground, buried feeder.
>
So is much of the Alyeska Pipeline.


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