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Pipelines and Anxiety: What Next?
Opinion | NY Times Blog | CLIFFORD KRAUSS | September 16, 2010
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As anyone living in the Midwest can tell you, gasoline prices have been mighty high in recent days. Since a pipeline operated by the Canadian company Enbridge ruptured last week outside of Chicago, the second such incident concerning an Enbridge pipeline in the Midwest this summer, prices at the pump have spurted up as much as 30 cents a gallon around much of the region.
In all likelihood, the pain at the gas pump will not be long-lasting. Line 6A has been patched up, the price spike is easing, and the company hopes it can be back servicing several refineries in the next couple of weeks if not sooner. But there may be a lasting political impact, especially these days, when memories of the BP spill accident in the gulf are still fresh.
And then there was last week’s natural gas pipeline explosion outside San Francisco, which destroyed much of a community. That was a utility line, and thus completely different from the ruptured Enbridge pipelines connecting oil fields with refineries. But in the public’s mind, they all fit into an uneasy realization that perhaps the pipes we depend on for our energy are not safe.
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