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2021-10-05 -Short Attention Span Theater-

No confirmation yet that a 126,000-gallon oil pipeline leak causing a 13-square-mile slick in California is fixed: Birds and fish are washing up dead and mayor says Huntingdon Beach could close for months

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Posted by Skidmark 2021-10-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

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Question: Could this be related to the Massive backup of ships at California ports waiting to unload?

MSM reports now are indicating ...
Officials investigating the oil spill are looking into whether a ship’s anchor may have struck a pipeline on the ocean floor, causing the Oil Pipeline leak.....

Posted by NN2N1 2021-10-05 08:03|| 2021-10-05 08:03|| Front Page Top

#2 Cascade failure takes many forms.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-10-05 08:34|| 2021-10-05 08:34|| Front Page Top

#3 A closed Huntington Beach? There goes my Fauci Holiday vacation. Ima calling Noseeums, Scratchalot, and Payne.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-10-05 09:02|| 2021-10-05 09:02|| Front Page Top

#4 How old is the pipeline and how many years ago should it have been replaced but for opposition of CA lawmakers and environmentalists? Hope they are satisfied denying the law of unintended consequences.

Posted by Snerert Thud6543 2021-10-05 13:15|| 2021-10-05 13:15|| Front Page Top

#5 It was set-up in March 1980 and processes crude oil production from two other platforms.

So 41 years immersed in salt water. Can't expect corrosion, especially not on welded joints.

Posted by Snerert Thud6543 2021-10-05 13:19|| 2021-10-05 13:19|| Front Page Top

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