{"id":526,"date":"2012-09-21T09:00:28","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T13:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/?p=526"},"modified":"2012-11-02T15:53:09","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T19:53:09","slug":"an-alarming-disconnect-between-industry-rhetoric-and-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/2012\/09\/21\/an-alarming-disconnect-between-industry-rhetoric-and-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;An alarming disconnect between industry rhetoric and reality&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <a href=\"http:\/\/switchboard.nrdc.org\/blogs\/aswift\/pipeline_leak_detection_system.html\" target=\"_blank\">important blog entry<\/a> from the always razor-sharp Anthony Swift at the National Resources Defense Council. Swift calls our attention to more essential investigative work at <em>Inside Climate News<\/em>,<a href=\"http:\/\/insideclimatenews.org\/news\/20120919\/few-oil-pipeline-spills-detected-much-touted-technology\" target=\"_blank\"> this time by Lisa Song<\/a> (whose work we&#8217;ve praised before). From Swift:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Enbridge\u2019s Kalamazoo tar sands spill presents another case undercutting industry\u2019s claims about pipeline safety and leak detection. As the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2012-09-19\/oil-pipeline-spills-go-undetected-by-much-touted-sensors.html\">InsideClimate piece<\/a>\u00a0notes, \u201cJust 10 days before the accident, Enbridge Inc., which operates the Michigan pipeline, told federal regulators it could remotely detect and shut down a rupture\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/372383-part-3-enbridge-response-plans-chicago-superior.html#document\/p5\/a61085\" target=\"_blank\">in eight minutes<\/a>. But when the line burst open, it took Enbridge\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/insideclimatenews.org\/news\/20120530\/enbridge-restarted-ruptured-oil-pipeline-%E2%80%94twice%E2%80%94-during-2010-michigan-oil-spill\" target=\"_blank\">17 hours to confirm the spill<\/a>.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An important blog entry from the always razor-sharp Anthony Swift at the National Resources Defense Council. Swift calls our attention to more essential investigative work at Inside Climate News, this time by Lisa Song (whose work we&#8217;ve praised before). From Swift: Enbridge\u2019s Kalamazoo tar sands spill presents another case undercutting industry\u2019s claims about pipeline safety [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,17,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conduct","category-news","category-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1207,"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions\/1207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}