Alaska underwater pipeline leak may have started in December

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Dan Joling, Associated Press Updated 2:15 pm, Tuesday, March 7, 2017


ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A pipeline spewing natural gas spewing into Alaska's Cook Inlet may have started leaking in December, two months before the leak was spotted from the air, according to a federal pipeline safety office.

The estimate of when gas started leaking into winter habitat for the endangered Cook Inlet beluga whales was issued in a proposed safety order last week by the U.S. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Administrationthat the agency confirmed on Tuesday.

Processed natural gas continues to leak from a Hilcorp Alaska LLC pipeline that supplies four oil platforms in the inlet south of Anchorage — at a rate estimated by the company of 210,000 to 310,000 cubic feet of gas daily.

A Hilcorp helicopter crew Feb. 7 spotted gas bubbling to the surface about four miles off shore.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Alaska-underwater-pipeline-leak-may-have-started-10983358.php

[PearliePoo2]

1. About that pesky, useless EPA, eh donald?

Don't NEED no stinkin' regulations...

[turbinetree]

2. Hey Army Corp of Engineers, Scott Pruitt and the narcissistic hypocrite and chief, dumpster

and finally the "entire" government body in North Dakota, you do realize that Keystone and precious DAPL is going to f***king leak-----------------you have been warned, and you just don't f***ing care

The Water Keepers and Protectors warned you, and now in the Alaskan waters, in Iowa there is oil products causing pollution and killing plants, mammals, birds, fish and we getting toxins from those animals we eat


FU

[shraby]

3. It just never stops does it? If they aren't spewing gas or oil in one place they are leaking

it someplace else.

[Submariner]

4. Using that crappy pipe from China again eh?

[angrychair]

5. For the record

That is, roughly, 19,800,000 cubic feet of gas that has leaked. (For reference, the average US home uses about 7500 cubic feet a year or enough to supply 2640 homes for a year)

Assuming a start date of 12/1 and roughly 90 days and the lowest possible leak rate of 210,000 cubic feet a day.