{"id":16590,"date":"2016-09-17T14:45:04","date_gmt":"2016-09-17T18:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=16590"},"modified":"2016-09-17T15:03:25","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T19:03:25","slug":"the-colonial-pipeline-leak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=16590","title":{"rendered":"The Colonial Pipeline leak"},"content":{"rendered":"

Local coverage<\/a><\/p>\n

Colonial statement<\/a><\/p>\n

The Colonial pipeline #1 carries 1.3 million barrels a day of refined products from the Gulf Coast up to Washington DC. Its companion pipeline #2 normally carries diesel fuel, although either pipeline can carry any product – switching from a low quality product to a highly refined product creates a period of time where the products comingle requiring rework of the contaminated product, so the pipeline schedules products to batch similar products as much as possible. Jet fuel is another major product shipped through the pipeline.<\/p>\n

The leak was discovered by a state of Alabama coal mine inspector. About 8000 barrels of gasoline was present in retention ponds where waste from the mining operations are kept out of the rivers. None of the gasoline made it to a river and the nearest house is over two miles away. Since gasoline evaporates very quickly, there is no long term problem.<\/p>\n

Colonial is shifting the gasoline to the undamaged pipeline #2 and switching the gasoline back in Atlanta to pipeline #1, but it takes several days to travel from Houston to Atlanta. This is not the first time a pipeline has leaked – there are contractors with the tools and skills to know what to do. They have plugged the pipeline on either end of the leak and pumping out the gasoline in the leaking segment. The 8,000 barrels of gasoline is about 8 minutes worth of product.<\/p>\n

Birmingham AL was the location of iron smelting operations prior to the Civil War and a competitive threat to smelters in Pittsburgh. That’s why the area has coal mines. Birmingham was the name given during Reconstruction, named after the iron and steel smelting city in England. Destruction of the smelting operations in Alabama was high on the list of objectives of the Union Army. Once war started, the limited industrial capacity of the south was essential to do things like make iron clad boats and repair railroads.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.civilwartraveler.com\/WEST\/AL\/iron.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Alabama Coal Fields<\/a><\/p>\n

Slavery of black men in coal mines until 1928<\/a><\/p>\n

The proximity to a mine suggests causation, although nobody has said that yet – either the miners striking the pipeline or an underground collapse of a shaft shifting the ground.<\/p>\n

Distribution of gasoline will be disrupted for a few days. While it is a very important pipeline, there are other pipelines and other methods of transport, including bringing gasoline from Europe. Despite the lack of any damage to any people or the environnent, look for Democrats to use this as evidence of why we should stop using pipelines, or fossil fuels more generally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Local coverage Colonial statement The Colonial pipeline #1 carries 1.3 million barrels a day of refined products from the Gulf Coast up to Washington DC. Its companion pipeline #2 normally carries diesel fuel, although either pipeline can carry any product … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,15,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2016-election","category-american-politics","category-collapse-of-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16590"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16597,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16590\/revisions\/16597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}