Recent Oil Spill a Topic for Your Comments

BREAKING NEWS:  August 28th.  Nexen has been ordered to shut down 95 oil pipelines in Alberta after oil leaked for two weeks undetected in July.  The one-year-old double-walled pipe was supposed to be “fail-safe.”

Read more at: 

http://business.financialpost.com/news/energy/oilsands-pipeline-projects-look-doomed-after-nexen-oil-spill-leaves-two-big-football-field-of-black-goo?__lsa=7288-8e12

Before September 30th, please write your comment to reroute the proposed 36” diameter tar sands pipeline (“line 3 replacement”) planned to run close to Long Lake.  See page 3 in the following link for instructions to submit electronically or by U.S. Postal Service:

http://www.friendsoftheheadwaters.org/uploads/3/4/4/2/3442631/initial_line3_meeting_notice_aug_19.pdf

Clearly nobody was doing a daily inspection of  the Alberta pipeline.  Request in your comment that daily aerial and satellite surveillance be mandated, as offered by Tata Consultancy Services:

http://www.tcs.com/SiteCollectionDocuments/Brochures/Digital-Enterprise/TCS-Digital-Pipeline-Surveillance-Solution-1014-1.pdf

This post from Arthur Howe's September email to LLAA members.