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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsYou are gonna love this pic of Exxon pipeline repair
Dispatches From Exxons Spill Zone, Days 3 and 4has pics
and video
One pic on the page is a truly WTF??????????
pls..go see...
http://www.tarsandsblockade.org/exxonspill-dispatches-4/
Autumn
(45,120 posts)Power washing it through the pipe into a wetland.
limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)There are not enough drugs to get thru some days....
limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)The tarsandsblockade.org people deserve a lot of credit for getting in there and getting these pictures and videos.
This is all going to be part of the historical record. 100 years from now, if there's anybody left, historians are going to look back for first hand accounts of these events. And they won't find much of it on CNN and NBC.
donco
(1,548 posts)outa duct tape eh?
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)or the "There, I fixed It" site.
but yeah, I think duct tape would have worked better.
Canuckistanian
(42,290 posts)tk2kewl
(18,133 posts)AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)rucky
(35,211 posts)rucky
(35,211 posts)JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)Waltons_Mtn
(345 posts)They are specially designed absorbent pads. They are designed to pick up the oil but leave the water behind. And yes they work well.
ThoughtCriminal
(14,050 posts)Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)It will take longer than this.
hunter
(38,337 posts)Okay, I'll be generous and say the angular look of the pipeline is from the anti-corrosion insulation wrapping.
Here's what the wrapping looks like before it's installed:
They still make a similar product in China.
But clearly the old steel pipe underneath was yet another piece of the USA's decaying infrastructure.
lithiumbomb
(250 posts)Now I hate to accidentally be defending a big oil company here, but that looks like your standard pipe repair clamp.
limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)All the fossil fuels are just dirty to drill up, dirty to transport, and dirty to burn. That's just kind of how it is.
Arctic Dave
(13,812 posts)It doesn't even appear to me on tight enough to do the job even if it is just to keep oil from leaking out from it on weight.
A real sleave repair, or "gunkas", looks much different and is usually welded into place once attached.
NBachers
(17,149 posts)Mnpaul
(3,655 posts)not even close to being tight enough. It looks like something that I got at the auto parts store to plug a minor leak in my exhaust.
hunter
(38,337 posts)There's no telling how they've repaired steel pipe underneath.
If the old pipe failed in this spot, what's to stop it from failing again somewhere else?
Modern giant corporations have developed a bad reputation for neglecting proper inspections and pushing old infrastructure past reasonable limits.
Remember this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_San_Bruno_pipeline_explosion
FSogol
(45,555 posts)Much of our water systems, sanitary sewers, bridges, tunnels, and electric grid is outdated and dangerously close to failing in places. We need to wise up and think of the future rather than short term economic gain.
Comrade_McKenzie
(2,526 posts)Demo_Chris
(6,234 posts)...surely we can trust Exxon to handle a trivial spill like this one!
Right?
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)That's why the govrnment hasn't come down on them too hard.
Has to be the reason.....I am sure of it.
Demo_Chris
(6,234 posts)Exxon tells governments what they will do.
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)Exxon can't just tell them to do it, can they?
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)Or, just buying governments.
hamsterjill
(15,224 posts)That just about covers it as far as I'm concerned.