Thursday, September 16, 2010

Natural Gas Explosion, Could it Happen to You?

 Hey Harlem Dudes, natural gas seems so clean and nice.  Not like that big bad nuclear power, but there can be accidents and deaths.  Natural Gas is the favored green fuel of the environmentalist movement, but there are problems.  A recent explosion of a natural gas pipeline in San Bruno Cal. killed a number of people and destroyed a hole neighborhood.  Here is a statement from Summer Shields out in California:
"Though the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has just begun its investigation, the few reports emerging, about the extent to which our nation's natural gas line piping infrastructure has decayed, are shocking and unacceptable. This makes the San Bruno incident one of the worst of several
different incidents in the last two decades. According to the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), the agency that answers to NTSB's findings, since 1990 there were
2,840 significant gas pipeline incidents nationwide, including 992 where someone was killed or injured. On top of this, more than 60 percent of the nation's 296,000 miles of pipeline are 40 years old or older, with these older pipelines lacking anti-corrosion coating."  Don't be a greenie, get in with rebuilding the nation.

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