CNN Breaking: Nigerian Pipeline Blast (explosion during repair of rupture)

[Roland99]

Up to 200 feared dead in Nigeria pipeline blast
Villagers were gathered around leak to scavenge crude, TV station says
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12754908/

LAGOS, Nigeria - An oil pipeline exploded Friday in Nigeria and up to 200 people are feared dead, a local television station reported.

The fiery blast came as villagers flocked to a ruptured conduit in Ilado, outside the main city of Lagos, to scoop up fuel that was gushing out, according to Nigeria’s Channels Television. Up to 200 may have perished in the explosion, the station said.

People often tap into the pipelines to steal fuel, which can be ignited causing huge fireballs.

Get ready for even higher oil/gas, too.

[hatrack]

1. Guess spigot-opening is off in Nigeria . . .

Let the jawboning begin!!

[Virginia Dare]

2. $5/gallon gas by Summer!...n/t

[rucky]

3. I hope no innocent people were hurt.

I know they set those things up in populated areas.

But dammit, if there were no casualties, I'd say LET THE FUCKER BURN

[DS1]

5. because thousands of gallons of crude a minute burning

is exactly what the earth needs right now

SMRT

[seabeyond]

6. those 200 working on hte pipe are innocently working earning a

wage to feed their family. my brother does this for a living, and there is always the possibly though unlikely shit will happen. it is sad for all that died in this

[malaise]

8. BBC says many casualties

the explosion was close to Lagos, a heavily populated city. How sad.

[seabeyond]

10. after posting, of course 200 not working on pipeline and many

of them were residence of area. my point all the deaths are sad. even the workers. they are just regular joes too

[elehhhhna]

9. lots of villagers among the dead:

The fiery blast came as villagers flocked to a ruptured conduit in Ilado, outside the main city of Lagos, to scoop up fuel that was gushing out, according to Nigeria’s Channels Television. Up to 200 may have perished in the explosion, the station said.


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12754908/

[seabeyond]

12. wow, and i dont care how needy, a pipe ruptures

i would be walking the other way. ya....

i see gas come out to work on stuff i go furthest from where htey are. jsut dont trust. scary stuff. as i say, brother works it and tells me the odds so far out anything will happen, not good enough for me.

[Tesha]

20. They create the leaks deliberately.

They want the oil, and one way to get it is to drill into the pipeline.

It's common in some parts of the world.

Tesha

[mod mom]

4. Will they blame Iran and use this as a case for war?

[shance]

7. Here comes Halliburton, here comes Halliburton right down Halliburton lane

More profits for the cowardly predators.

[Kagemusha]

11. They are an oil services company at heart after all

No idea if they worked on this job or if they'll just benefit because someone else's employees went boom.

[Roland99]

13. I have the feeling this was just a tragic accident

[shance]

16. Just like everything else, huh?

n/t

[Roland99]

17. Hunh?

[shance]

15. At Halliburton, capitalizing on your loss and tragedy is what we do best.

Either way, companies like Halliburton, Bechtel and others trump off of manufactured (or natural disasters which seem to be an endangered species these days) disasters and tax payers wind up making these people very wealthy.

In other words, "how" they get rich is by stealing from us and profiting off of our tragedy as citizens, in this country and in others as well.

[MadHound]

14. What a tragedy for those people

And it's going to drive up the price of oil even more. Guess I'd better go and stock up on gas for the lawnmower, while it's still relatively cheap.

[Roland99]

18. CNN Update: Confirming 100-150 dead

[Roland99]

19. CNN: Explosion was on Snake Island...off the coast of Nigeria

"people were literally incinerated"


:(

[Roland99]

21. Markets ignore Nigerian blast (maybe because it wasn't pre-planned?)

;)




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