Good article showing why trusting pipelines to be safe is almost crazy and how over time they have proven to be anything but safe and dependable.
A significant incident is defined as one that results in serious injury or fatality, costs more than $50,000, releases more than five barrels of volatile fluids such as gasoline or 50 barrels of other liquids, or results in a fire or explosion.
326 in 2015, almost one per day
220 significent incidents so far this year
3,032 since 2006 with 4.7 billion in costs associated with
55% of US pipeline is more than 45 years old
http://www.ecowatch.com/pipeline-spills-2061960029.html
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