10,000 gallon pipeline spill in Southwest Ohio

[riqster]

Not far from John "What, me regulate?" Boehner, as it happens: http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSL2N0MF0I520140318?irpc=932

"March 18 (Reuters) - Clean-up operations began on Tuesday after a major oil pipeline owned by Sunoco Logistics Partners LP leaked hundreds of barrels of crude oil into a nature preserve next to the Great Miami River in southwest Ohio.

Crews vacuumed oil that had leaked from the Mid-Valley pipeline into a wetland area of the Oak Glen Nature Preserve, 20 miles (32 km) north of Cincinnati, according to local officials.

The leak was discovered at 8:20 p.m. EDT on Monday (0020 GMT Tuesday) and the line was shut around 1 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, Sunoco said. It was unclear if any oil was still spewing from the pipe.
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[spanone]

1. K&r...

[mikeysnot]

2. Pipelines, what could go wrong?

[riqster]

3. And since it's Ohio, much of the press ignores it.

[mikeysnot]

4. Of course!

Can't have any connection the the Keystone Pipeline...

[tonybgood]

6. I probably wouldn't have heard about it if I didn't live in SW Ohio.

It's also interesting that the pipeline had been laid before the nature preserve was established. I guess the thinking was "Out of sight, out of mind,"

[riqster]

8. I heard about it vis a Cleveburgh friend's FB page.

[SmittynMo]

5. With all the chemical and oil spills

when the hell are we going to wake up. The Keystone pipeline is a bad idea!!!! DUH!!! And I agree, I never heard squat about this on any news channel. Are the news channels this blind?

[riqster]

7. Not blind...

Just owned by Repubs. And Repubs also own the energy companies.

[blackspade]

9. So a leak was discovered and they shut it down....

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almost 5 hours later? WTF?

I thought these things were safe and had 'safety features' that prevented these kinds of things?

[riqster]

10. Yeah, safety features, that's the ticket!

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

12. Well, 17 hours is a bit quicker than

the months of uncontrolled flow in the Gulf when BP employed their 'safety features'.

Progress!

(And I'm down here in SW Ohio, roughly 30 odd miles north of cinci, along the river, so I'm not thrilled, although I think this particular leak was still a bit downstream. I'm just glad we're not a great area for fracking.)

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

13. Just checked the maps, it's way downstream

I'm north of cinci, the leak is actually W-NW of cinci.

[aggiesal]

16. I got it 4.5 hrs. later ...

8:20pm Monday night
1am Tuesday morning..

[blackspade]

17. Thanks for the correction.

I read 8:20 am for some reason.

Still 4.5 hours is terrible.

[Petrushka]

11. K & R

[Iliyah]

14. Ya'think the 1-2%ers along with their paid politicians care about America?

Profit baby, and eff who it hurts, including planet earth.

[riqster]

15. They care about their little enclaves, and that's about it.

[yortsed snacilbuper]

18. This might take Cinncinatti out of the running for the 2016 gop Presidential convention,

The gop wants clean water for themselves!

8 cities are applying to host the Republican convention in 2016. Here’s a look at each one.

link

[WhiteTara]

19. It's always in a nature preserve. Never in some ceo's back yard.

[riqster]

20. CEOs don't want to look at some grubby pipeline from their breakfast nook.