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Panich52

(5,829 posts) Thu Jan 29, 2015, 11:20 PM Jan 2015

Pipeline ruptures raise desperation for inspectors

Rachel Maddow reports on the shocking lack of pipeline inspectors in North Dakota after a new, uninspected pipe has spilled a record-setting 3 million gallons...

http://broadcaster.msnbc.com/t?r=2&c=39445&l=167&ctl=14F9D7:A73AF1CCECC450590BF5DAFD81EE1CD8&

Not only no inspectors, but no maps on where the pipes are! What an appalling abrogation of govt oversight. And it's not difficult to extrapolate that this travesty of 'provide for the public welfare' occurs in other states as well

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Pipeline ruptures raise desperation for inspectors (Original Post) Panich52 Jan 2015 OP

That's just disturbing. RiverLover Jan 2015 #1

RiverLover

(7,830 posts)

1. That's just disturbing.

Reply to Panich52 (Original post)

Thu Jan 29, 2015, 11:33 PM

Jan 2015

For being the "superior" species, we sure are fucking it up.

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