From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   Sancho Panza   wrote:   
   >On 5/15/2014 9:05 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:   
   >> For those of you on Usenet so enamored of the safety record of pipelines   
   >> for transportation of oil, you may not want to read about last night's   
   >> disaster:   
   >>   
   >> A ruptured oil pipe near the suburb of Glendale has spilled about   
   >> 10,000 gallons of crude oil onto streets; initial reports had the spill   
   >> at 50,000 gallons. The leak from a 20 inch pipe was reported as 12:15   
   >> am. Thursay, May 15, 2014. It was shut off remotely within 10 minutes of   
   >> firemen arriving. Despite the shut off, the spill continued for at least   
   >> 45 minutes.   
   >>   
   >> A strip club had to be evacuated.   
   >>   
   >> The pipe was under pressure; oil was seen shooting 20 feet into the sky.   
   >>   
   >> The oil came from Bakersfield. It's a pumping transfer station sending   
   >> oil to a storage facility near Bakersfield.   
   >>   
   >Seeing as how no cause has yet been offered and the proximity of the   
   >rupture to the San Andreas Fault, seismic activity is not out of the   
   >question.   
      
   Pipelines aren't planned to be compatible with know, significant seismic   
   activity? That gives me every confidence about pipelines.   
      
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