One More Crack In The Keystone XL Pipeline
May 31, 2014

Via Moyers & Company:

Matthew Philips and Brad Weiners over at Bloomberg Businessweek report that in addition to all the other worries about the Keystone XL pipeline there’s one BIG problem that until just this week has been largely overlooked, “hidden in plain sight.” Last fall, inspectors from the Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) discovered a shockingly high percentage of scary, shoddy workmanship:

During one week in September, 72 percent, or almost three-quarters, of the welds on the ‘safest pipeline in the world’ required redoing. (TransCanada,...

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