Oil leak escaped monitor, Wha?
So are we really ready to open the LAST bit of Arctic Wilderness on Earth to the oil Corporations?
PRUDHOE BAY: Spill estimate due by Thursday; output down $6 million a day.
By WESLEY LOY
Anchorage Daily News
The state four years ago fined BP $300,000 and ordered it to install an accurate leak-detection system on major Prudhoe Bay crude oil pipelines, including one that recently sent more than 21,000 gallons of oil oozing onto the tundra.
But the system didn't alert oil-field workers to that leak along the pipeline. Rather, it was a worker who happened to be driving down a gravel road next to the line and smelled oil who sounded the alarm early last Thursday.
The spill is one of the largest in the 29-year history of production at Prudhoe Bay, the nation's largest oil field, and a massive cleanup effort continues in subzero weather.
PRUDHOE BAY: Spill estimate due by Thursday; output down $6 million a day.
By WESLEY LOY
Anchorage Daily News
The state four years ago fined BP $300,000 and ordered it to install an accurate leak-detection system on major Prudhoe Bay crude oil pipelines, including one that recently sent more than 21,000 gallons of oil oozing onto the tundra.
But the system didn't alert oil-field workers to that leak along the pipeline. Rather, it was a worker who happened to be driving down a gravel road next to the line and smelled oil who sounded the alarm early last Thursday.
The spill is one of the largest in the 29-year history of production at Prudhoe Bay, the nation's largest oil field, and a massive cleanup effort continues in subzero weather.
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