“Safety” regulations on pipelines, and all oil and gas operations, have since Reagan era changes in regs, and especially under “W”, been rewritten by the industry, and STILL ignored, by the likes of Halliburton (thank you Gulf oil spill!), and El Paso Natural Gas, a Halliburton affiliate controlled by a guy named, gee, Dick Cheney.
FERC btw issued a pumped storage permit for a guy who proposed moving water from a lake to the top of a mountain, and letting it run back down to generate electricity at “higher” rates. The only minor problem they overlooked? He proposed pumping THREE TIMES THE ENTIRE VOLUME OF THE LAKE, EVERY MORNING!! They will issue ANYONE a license, for ANYTHING; that is the Reagan/Bush/Bush legacy.
Transportation “safety” in all forms, is a joke, and if regs were corrected, and followed, the operations COULD be safe, but profits might drop by 1-2 %, so that won’t happen!
“Safety” regulations on pipelines, and all oil and gas operations, have since Reagan era changes in regs, and especially under “W”, been rewritten by the industry, and STILL ignored, by the likes of Halliburton (thank you Gulf oil spill!), and El Paso Natural Gas, a Halliburton affiliate controlled by a guy named, gee, Dick Cheney.
FERC btw issued a pumped storage permit for a guy who proposed moving water from a lake to the top of a mountain, and letting it run back down to generate electricity at “higher” rates. The only minor problem they overlooked? He proposed pumping THREE TIMES THE ENTIRE VOLUME OF THE LAKE, EVERY MORNING!! They will issue ANYONE a license, for ANYTHING; that is the Reagan/Bush/Bush legacy.
Transportation “safety” in all forms, is a joke, and if regs were corrected, and followed, the operations COULD be safe, but profits might drop by 1-2 %, so that won’t happen!