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Wednesday, March 19th, 2014

Pipeline Leaks Thousands of Gallons of oil in Southwest Ohio

Author:     DAN SEWELL
Source:     The Columbus Dispatch
Publication Date:     Tuesday March 18, 2014 12:57 PM
 Link: Pipeline Leaks Thousands of Gallons of oil in Southwest Ohio
Stephan:   As far as I can tell although filed by The Associated Press, this didn't rate a mention on any news network. Further evidence of why we need to leave the carbon era. Instead we have spent a week talking about a story for which no one has a single certain explanatory fact. The NASA report on the collapse of civilization... yawn. Lets speculate instead on whether Martians have dematerialized the Malaysian 777 airliner. This and the Crimea, for which there is almost as little certain data. It is the most astonishing display of the complete absence of substance in the American media one can imagine. Literally a week spent on two stories one of which is almost entirely information free and the other which lacks most of the data that would give us insight.

CINCINNATI — Thousands of gallons of crude oil leaked from an interstate pipeline into the area of a southwest Ohio nature preserve, authorities said today. There were no immediate reports of injuries to wildlife.

Federal and state environmental officials were at the scene today of the spill west of Cincinnati. Nearby residents in Colerain Township weren’t in danger from the leak reported late yesterday, authorities said. The pipeline was shut off overnight, they said.

The Mid-Valley Pipeline Co. pipeline runs nearly 1,000 miles from Texas to Michigan and is largely owned by Sunoco Logistics Partners. A Sunoco Logistics spokesman said the cause of the leak in a wooded ravine was under investigation.

Spokesman Jeff Shields said initial estimates were that 240 barrels of oil were released, the equivalent of some 10,000 gallons. He said crews confirmed the release at about 1 a.m. and the pipeline was shut down immediately on either side of the release area.

Ohio Environmental Protection Agency spokeswoman Heather Lauer said a wetland area of about one acre was affected by oil that had traveled about a mile down an intermittent stream. She said an environmental contractor had been called to begin work on the cleanup.

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