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AAR president talks hazmat safety
Amen, Bro’ Claes…
Broken pipelines need auto-shutdown devices about every mile triggered by diminishing pressure over a normal amount between devices, and a system shutdown if communication between any pair of devices fails.
Excellent response to the Wall Street Journal and their sensationalist reporting!
Excellent response to the Wall Street Journal and their sensationalist reporting!
Ironically, on the page preceding the editorial, a regular column entitled “Global View” by Bret Stevens included the following in speaking of editorial writers: “Usually (though few of us columnists will admit it), we make our judgments and then find our evidence.” PS: The editorial and the column appeared in the April 2 edition of the paper (not April 1) in case you want to look up either of them.
Ask the folks in Mayflower, Arkansas, how safe pipelines are. I bet many of them didn’t even know they were living on top of a major pipeline, until there was a lake of oil in their front yards. I’ll take a unit train full of oil any day. If it crashes, maybe a few cars leak some. If a pipeline goes bust, the oil just pumps out until someone gets around to shutting it off somewhere upstream.