Russian gas pipeline spill in North Carolina one of the worst ever.

[the other mike]

It's a Colonial pipeline actually, but blaming Russia always gets more attention.

 

[Rigby5]

Never really thought of gasoline being piped before.
Seems dangerous, but then again trucks and trains are likely even worse?

 

[Dekster]

The media is probably ignoring it because it happened 8 months ago.

 

[gipper]

The media is probably ignoring it because it happened 8 months ago.

Did they report on it then?

 

[Dekster]

The media is probably ignoring it because it happened 8 months ago.

Did they report on it then?

Contamination prompts Colonial Pipeline to buy three homes near Huntersville gasoline spill • NC Newsline

Colonial Pipeline buys out homeowners in Huntersville, North Carolina in aftermath of large gasoline spill; carcinogenic chemicals

www.ncpolicywatch.com

Colonial Pipeline responds after report of a petroleum leak near gasoline pipeline

On Friday, August 14 around 5:45 p.m., Colonial Pipeline responded to a report of a "product release" in Huntersville.

www.wcnc.com

Break in previously repaired pipe cause of Colonial Pipeline's massive gasoline spill • NC Newsline

At 42 years old, the pipeline could take no more. Colonial Pipeline has identified a break in a previously repaired segment of pipe as the cause of a 272,580-gallon gasoline spill in Huntersville in August. Details of the accident were made public in a 30-day report filed with the Pipeline and...

pulse.ncpolicywatch.org

 

[the other mike]

The media is probably ignoring it because it happened 8 months ago.

Updated May 1st, 2021....

Last year, on August 14, two teenagers riding their ATVs through the woods in Huntersville, North Carolina, noticed a strange liquid bubbling from the earth. They stopped to take a look. The pair, who soon informed their local fire department, had no clue of the scale of the disaster they were looking at. And thanks to the craftiness of Colonial Pipeline, the rest of the country wouldn’t, either.

How a Gas Company Grossly Underestimated One of the Biggest Pipeline Spills in U.S. History

After the disaster in Huntersville, Colonial Pipeline now holds the record for largest gas spill in both North and South Carolina. Thanks to its polished P.R. team, you likely have no clue.

newrepublic.com

 

[the other mike]

Colonial has been here before. The company also holds the record for largest gas spill in the neighboring state of South Carolina, having dumped 950,000 gallons of diesel fuel into the Reedy River in 1996. The spill devastated local wildlife and vegetation, blanketing the shores of the river with 35,000 dead fish. Colonial pleaded guilty to criminal negligence and coughed up over $50 million in landowner settlements and federal fines.

 

[Dekster]

The media is probably ignoring it because it happened 8 months ago.

Updated May 1st, 2021....

Last year, on August 14, two teenagers riding their ATVs through the woods in Huntersville, North Carolina, noticed a strange liquid bubbling from the earth. They stopped to take a look. The pair, who soon informed their local fire department, had no clue of the scale of the disaster they were looking at. And thanks to the craftiness of Colonial Pipeline, the rest of the country wouldn’t, either.

How a Gas Company Grossly Underestimated One of the Biggest Pipeline Spills in U.S. History

After the disaster in Huntersville, Colonial Pipeline now holds the record for largest gas spill in both North and South Carolina. Thanks to its polished P.R. team, you likely have no clue.

newrepublic.com

There was no craftiness about it. Your own article indicates they had trouble modeling it because there was no pressure drop recorded. Old technology is old.

 

[the other mike]

The media is probably ignoring it because it happened 8 months ago.

Updated May 1st, 2021....

Last year, on August 14, two teenagers riding their ATVs through the woods in Huntersville, North Carolina, noticed a strange liquid bubbling from the earth. They stopped to take a look. The pair, who soon informed their local fire department, had no clue of the scale of the disaster they were looking at. And thanks to the craftiness of Colonial Pipeline, the rest of the country wouldn’t, either.

How a Gas Company Grossly Underestimated One of the Biggest Pipeline Spills in U.S. History

After the disaster in Huntersville, Colonial Pipeline now holds the record for largest gas spill in both North and South Carolina. Thanks to its polished P.R. team, you likely have no clue.

newrepublic.com

There was no craftiness about it. Your own article indicates they had trouble modeling it because there was no pressure drop recorded. Old technology is old.

Let me see here.
You're defending the company and their
obvious coverup ?

 

[the other mike]

In the latest Colonial case, the lowball method worked. Nearly every local news report from August 2020 printed the 63,000-gallon number reported by Colonial. Even when it jumped above 200,000 the following month—making it among the largest in North Carolina history—the update was received as almost something of a formality. After all, this is a state that was, and still is, fresh from dealing with Duke Energy’s coal-ash scandal. Another pipeline spill, even one that threatened to top the Tar Heel State’s record books, likely seemed par for the course for the region’s energy industry. But 1.2 million gallons isn’t a minor mistake. To put this in context, the largest pipeline spill in U.S. history happened in 1991, in Minnesota, when the Line 3 pipeline—which is currently being protested by Indigenous Water Protectors—leaked 1.68 million gallons onto the frozen Prairie River. The Colonial Pipeline burst is only (“only”) a half-million gallons behind that.

 

[Dekster]

The media is probably ignoring it because it happened 8 months ago.

Updated May 1st, 2021....

Last year, on August 14, two teenagers riding their ATVs through the woods in Huntersville, North Carolina, noticed a strange liquid bubbling from the earth. They stopped to take a look. The pair, who soon informed their local fire department, had no clue of the scale of the disaster they were looking at. And thanks to the craftiness of Colonial Pipeline, the rest of the country wouldn’t, either.

How a Gas Company Grossly Underestimated One of the Biggest Pipeline Spills in U.S. History

After the disaster in Huntersville, Colonial Pipeline now holds the record for largest gas spill in both North and South Carolina. Thanks to its polished P.R. team, you likely have no clue.

newrepublic.com

There was no craftiness about it. Your own article indicates they had trouble modeling it because there was no pressure drop recorded. Old technology is old.

Let me see here.
You're defending the company and their
obvious coverup ?

It wasn't an obvious cover up. They had no idea how long it had been leaking or how much gas leaked. Even your pearl-clutching article says they had no idea. They were required to do estimates and they just took wild ass guesses and then upped them as time progressed and they had more real information based on what they were finding out after the clean up began. It wasn't leaking into a measuring cup. It was leaking into the ground and you cannot go out and look at the surface of the ground and know how much has soaked into it. If you see using common sense as "defending the company" that is your choice. I look at facts, and the fact is that as real time information was obtained, they reported their revised numbers to authorities. There is no giant cover-up. BP spent so much money rebuilding the trans-alaskan pipeline after they took control of it, they eventually sold it again. Old infrastructure is old.

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

Never really thought of gasoline being piped before.
Seems dangerous, but then again trucks and trains are likely even worse?

I have had the "pleasure" of seeing photographs of the charred aftermath of such accidents. When witnesses are describing the scene as "people on fire were jumping off the bridge and into the lake to put out the flames" you know there's going to be a huge insurance payout.

 

[the other mike]

The media is probably ignoring it because it happened 8 months ago.

Updated May 1st, 2021....

Last year, on August 14, two teenagers riding their ATVs through the woods in Huntersville, North Carolina, noticed a strange liquid bubbling from the earth. They stopped to take a look. The pair, who soon informed their local fire department, had no clue of the scale of the disaster they were looking at. And thanks to the craftiness of Colonial Pipeline, the rest of the country wouldn’t, either.

How a Gas Company Grossly Underestimated One of the Biggest Pipeline Spills in U.S. History

After the disaster in Huntersville, Colonial Pipeline now holds the record for largest gas spill in both North and South Carolina. Thanks to its polished P.R. team, you likely have no clue.

newrepublic.com

There was no craftiness about it. Your own article indicates they had trouble modeling it because there was no pressure drop recorded. Old technology is old.

Let me see here.
You're defending the company and their
obvious coverup ?

It wasn't an obvious cover up. They had no idea how long it had been leaking or how much gas leaked. Even your pearl-clutching article says they had no idea. They were required to do estimates and they just took wild ass guesses and then upped them as time progressed and they had more real information based on what they were finding out after the clean up began. It wasn't leaking into a measuring cup. It was leaking into the ground and you cannot go out and look at the surface of the ground and know how much has soaked into it. If you see using common sense as "defending the company" that is your choice. I look at facts, and the fact is that as real time information was obtained, they reported their revised numbers to authorities. There is no giant cover-up. BP spent so much money rebuilding the trans-alaskan pipeline after they took control of it, they eventually sold it again. Old infrastructure is old.

It wasn't leaking into a measuring cup. It was leaking into the ground and you cannot go out and look at the surface of the ground and know how much has soaked into it.

The media is probably ignoring it because it happened 8 months ago.

Updated May 1st, 2021....

Last year, on August 14, two teenagers riding their ATVs through the woods in Huntersville, North Carolina, noticed a strange liquid bubbling from the earth. They stopped to take a look. The pair, who soon informed their local fire department, had no clue of the scale of the disaster they were looking at. And thanks to the craftiness of Colonial Pipeline, the rest of the country wouldn’t, either.

How a Gas Company Grossly Underestimated One of the Biggest Pipeline Spills in U.S. History

After the disaster in Huntersville, Colonial Pipeline now holds the record for largest gas spill in both North and South Carolina. Thanks to its polished P.R. team, you likely have no clue.

newrepublic.com

Just so we're clear.
Now go away ya troll.

 

[the other mike]

Never really thought of gasoline being piped before.
Seems dangerous, but then again trucks and trains are likely even worse?

I have had the "pleasure" of seeing photographs of the charred aftermath of such accidents. When witnesses are describing the scene as "people on fire were jumping off the bridge and into the lake to put out the flames" you know there's going to be a huge insurance payout.

This is a 'conservative' when fossil fuel spills poison the water and land forever, they're discussing insurance payments, and small fines.

 

[the other mike]