Beyond pigs in the pipeline: getting ahead of the leaks

Sunday, August 11th 2013 - 21:51 UTC

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The 2010 Kalamazoo spill and the 2013 Exxon leak in Arkansas are the most glaring incidents, but these are just the big leaks that are found right away and reported. Most leaks are found eventually—but there is money to be saved and damage to be avoided by catching them at the smallest rupture. Right now, we rely on pigs in the pipeline to do this. Read full article

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The Truth PaTroll
Look at this wonderful river in this wonderful neighborhood the USA. Just beautiful. Sure makes me want to live there.
Aug 12th, 2013 - 08:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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yankeeboy
Yeah but that was after an accident La Boca with the Richelieu and Tigre look like that all the time!
Black and smelly
With 10s of thousands of people geting sick from it for over 100 yrs
and nothing is done
ever
Aug 12th, 2013 - 10:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Captain Poppy
Reminds me of El Tigre
Aug 12th, 2013 - 01:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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GFace
@1 that WAS in Arkansas. A spill like that can only raise property values there.
Aug 12th, 2013 - 01:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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yankeeboy
3. Tigre isn't quite as nasty as La Boca but it's pretty close. I can't believe those stupid people let their kids swim in either place!
The water is black, oily and full of garbage and smells chemically/rotten.
Gross Gross Gross
I could never figure out what people saw in Tigre.
It's super nasty.
Aug 12th, 2013 - 03:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Captain Poppy
Tigre was a bore. On a Monday you can only get pizza to eat. I thought the river area was dirty. Went to the amuzement park there and they were closed on Monday thru Thursday. I never really figured out why that is considered a tourist area. One would think there would be something there to draw people in. Took the train from BA....little did I realize they were unsafe.
Aug 12th, 2013 - 03:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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ChrisR
There is no simple answer as yet to leakage from mainline pipes, they are just so massive in developed area and difficult to inspect manually.
Aug 12th, 2013 - 04:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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yankeeboy
I used to take the train from BA to San Isidro. If you can believe it that is the nicest commuter train in the country.
Train de la Costa was nice a few years ago but its all full of graffiti w/broken seats now plus it never runs on time.
I think CFK just nationalized that train and amusement park a few months ago. So it must be crumbling by now.
The commuter trains are simply horrific. I wouldn't take them now they're just too dangerous.
Aug 12th, 2013 - 05:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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The Truth PaTroll
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2387979/Mystery-dead-dolphins-Scientists-suspect-killer-virus-SEVEN-times-normal-number-carcasses-wash-East-Coast.html

Yeah, what a coincidence, with all that NITROGEN, hormones, chemical fertilizer, and BGH being dumped into the NORTH ATLANTIC... yuck, yuck, yuck.

Dolphins dying in record numbers, and jellyfish population exploding.

Cant be too good.

What a beautiful environment the USA has!
Aug 13th, 2013 - 12:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Captain Poppy
Sure......I'm on Stallwagen all weekend.......such an ugly place. It's so ugly tourism keeps increasing, just the opposite in Argentina. And I see FvP lost in your Messy Mendoza tobias.
Aug 13th, 2013 - 05:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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The Truth PaTroll
You can't explain it huh? Why are mammals dying of the coast of the USA AND CHINA? Coincidence?

Why are algae blooms exploding in Europe?

Why is none of that happening in Argentina (except for the bird attacks on whales, that's because they are too protected and their population needs to be culled by allowing gaming hunting).

All that nitrogen, toxins, hormones dumped into the Gulf and East coast, is DESTROYING the immune system of the dolphins and others, and causing mutations in the germs.

I guess you like veneers Poppy. It “may” look nice, but inside those waters at the molecular level there is a stew of American Industrial filth that will come back to hunt you.

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/birds-377977-dead-bird.html

Yeah, all the birds and sea mammals dying around the USA, must be the environment has all been “cleaned” up, it's too clean for them.
Aug 13th, 2013 - 10:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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