YouTube video of pipeline gas leak

Hank

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FRANKLINVILLE — Patrick Duddy was looking over his Facebook page Thursday when he found a YouTube video of what was an apparent leak in a natural gas line in a state forest near Franklinville.

The Pittsburgh resident, who was in Colorado at the time, was curious when someone on the cellphone video said he had reported the gas leak to National Fuel Gas, but it wasn’t scheduled to be repaired until January.

The video was shot by Ryan Weatherley of Olean and included Tim Ross, also of Olean. Posted on YouTube by ViralHog, the video had nearly 500 views as of Saturday morning.

"This is why North Dakota doesn't want that stupid pipeline," Weatherley can be heard saying as he shoots video of the leaks creating bubbling in puddles along the right of way, referring to the ongoing fierce opposition of a 1,700 crude oil pipeline being built in part through the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota. "Billions of dollars going into our drinking water. Isn't that great?"

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SamSpade

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FRANKLINVILLE — Patrick Duddy was looking over his Facebook page Thursday when he found a YouTube video of what was an apparent leak in a natural gas line in a state forest near Franklinville.

The Pittsburgh resident, who was in Colorado at the time, was curious when someone on the cellphone video said he had reported the gas leak to National Fuel Gas, but it wasn’t scheduled to be repaired until January.

Because it's not a safety concern. Natural gas is - natural. Swamp gas. I'm guessing this level of leak isn't much different than what occurs naturally.

The Dakota line is as much politics as anything else, which is why I'm not terribly sympathetic to it.
There's millions of miles of natural gas lines, and hundreds of thousands of miles of gas pipelines - the big kind - in the U.S.
This is a tempest in a teapot.
 

Gilligan

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There's millions of miles of natural gas lines, and hundreds of thousands of miles of gas pipelines - the big kind - in the U.S.
This is a tempest in a teapot.

Yep. And the products ARE going to be transported regardless. If not via pipeline, then over less safe/reliable rail and tanker truck.

Hank's post perfectly illustrates the level of utter stupidity surrounding the whole issue. Equating a natural gas leak to some imagined catastrophic oil leak that manages magically to infiltrate aquifers.
 
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edinsomd

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Yep. And the products ARE going to be transported regardless. If not via pipeline, then over less safe/reliable rail and tanker truck.

Hank's post perfectly illustrates the level of utter stupidity surrounding the whole issue. Equating a natural gas leak to some imagined catastrophic oil leak that manages magically to infiltrate aquifers.

And fracking causes earthquakes, too!
/sarc
 
Contrary to MSM reports, the DAP was not denied, as in "not going to be completed", the permit was more accurately termed "put on hold" pending the completion of additional research on routes around the lake.
 
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