Same song, different verse:
"A leak from Chevron's underground oil pipeline may have gone undetected for hours as it spilled 50 gallons of crude a minute Saturday into Salt Lake City's Red Butte Creek...Chevron pledged to clean up the 6-mile mess, but the company could not quantify he damage. As of late Saturday, Chevron said the leak had been stopped. But company representatives could not say when it began, how much oil spilled into city waterways and why -- despite pipeline monitors -- it apparently took hours to learn of the accident."
According to AP:
"Chevron determined the pipeline broke at 10 p.m. Friday, and police and fire crews were notified of it shortly before 7 am. Saturday...Employees at the Veteran Affairs Hospital first noticed oil in the stream just before 7 a.m. Officials then traced the spill to the pipe near Red Butte Garden. Freitag said the pipeline was shut off about 7:45 a.m."
Think Progress adds that this comes 4 days after Gov. Gary Herbert (R) called for more oil production in Utah. Saying:
"One might ask: "Why are we drilling in the middle of the ocean where there is extreme environmental risk when we could be meeting the demand for domestic production from on-shore development in areas with minimal environmental risk such as Utah?"
(AP Photos/The Deseret News, Michael Brandy)
"A leak from Chevron's underground oil pipeline may have gone undetected for hours as it spilled 50 gallons of crude a minute Saturday into Salt Lake City's Red Butte Creek...Chevron pledged to clean up the 6-mile mess, but the company could not quantify he damage. As of late Saturday, Chevron said the leak had been stopped. But company representatives could not say when it began, how much oil spilled into city waterways and why -- despite pipeline monitors -- it apparently took hours to learn of the accident."
According to AP:"Chevron determined the pipeline broke at 10 p.m. Friday, and police and fire crews were notified of it shortly before 7 am. Saturday...Employees at the Veteran Affairs Hospital first noticed oil in the stream just before 7 a.m. Officials then traced the spill to the pipe near Red Butte Garden. Freitag said the pipeline was shut off about 7:45 a.m."
Think Progress adds that this comes 4 days after Gov. Gary Herbert (R) called for more oil production in Utah. Saying:"One might ask: "Why are we drilling in the middle of the ocean where there is extreme environmental risk when we could be meeting the demand for domestic production from on-shore development in areas with minimal environmental risk such as Utah?"
(AP Photos/The Deseret News, Michael Brandy)
Issue the a-hole politicians a pair of hip waders, rubber gloves, a toothbrush and a bottle of Dawn. Throw them out in the middle of the mess and tell them they can't come out until it's all clean.
Or better yet, take their debit cards from them and let them know that for every hour oil spews out of the source, they'll be hit for $10,000.
Money is really the only thing they understand, especially if it has any correlation with their pockets.
I have a proposal. If there is an oil spill, the oil that is cleaned up must be dumped in the senator and legislature's yards and lakes and swimming pools. How about that? Then they'll see what a 'low environmental risk" looks like when it's on YOUR property or kills YOUR workplace.
There is always risk when drilling for oil. The oil companies have become very complacent about developing new technologies to avoid spills and gushers. Likely, these happen all the time, we just don't hear about them in the media.