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10. I don't see any reason to doubt it - the dozens to hundreds of county and state

Reply to lonestarnot (Original post)

Sat May 23, 2015, 12:12 AM

May 2015

employees as well as the volunteers milling about would certainly notice if oil was still flowing up out of the ground. This wasn't a wellhead, where capping it might be difficult, it was a distribution pipeline where 'shutting it off' just means no longer sending oil down the pipe. That should be pretty easy.

I doubt they've actually fixed the pipe yet--the rupture was underground and maybe isn't even excavated yet--but 'shutting it off' doesn't require repairing the leak...

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How do we know the pipeline in CA is actually shut down at this point in time? [View all] lonestarnot May 2015 OP

The only way to know is to compare input to output. NYC_SKP May 2015 #1

I want some of those over there now. lonestarnot May 2015 #3

They plugged that leak, but who knows about the rest of the line. Cleita May 2015 #2

How many do they have? Two? lonestarnot May 2015 #4

There are oil pipelines all over the state. How do you get two? I don't know how Cleita May 2015 #5

Not two pipelines, two inspectors. lonestarnot May 2015 #6

Oh, okay. Yeah they probably have very few. I don't know but I'll look it up. Cleita May 2015 #7

Electric car prices going up? lonestarnot May 2015 #8

The cars still have to be charged with some kind of fuel charged electricity, all of Cleita May 2015 #9

I don't see any reason to doubt it - the dozens to hundreds of county and state petronius May 2015 #10

So it could be leaking anywhere then even though it's shut off or does the whole line drain when lonestarnot May 2015 #11

One of the articles I saw said they had been ordered to remove any remaining oil petronius May 2015 #12