Friday, September 11, 2015

This Day In Clarkland...Corroding With The One That Brung Ya.

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From Peter O'Neil and Gordon Hoekstra's VSun piece on the safety 'audit' of Petronas' Malaysian operations:

...Auditors found six "pressure vessels" — containers on offshore platforms holding pressurized gas or oil — that were found to have internal corrosion and yet hadn't been inspected for at least 20 years...


But never fear, Big Rich is here:

...B.C. deputy premier Rich Coleman, the minister responsible for natural gas development, wouldn't say if the government was aware of Petronas's internal problems in Malaysia. But in a prepared statement he did stress that LNG operators will have to adhere to a "strict" regulatory regime operated by the B.C. Oil and Gas Commission...


Gosh.

And here I thought Mr. Coleman et al. were doing their darndest to get rid of all that icky/awful regulatory red tape that used to prevent the draining of wilderness lakes, deadly fireball explosions in sawdust-filled mills, and the bursting of tailing pond dams around here.

And lest you think this all just enviro-hooey and/or something that went on in the distant past, there is the following, also from the O'Neil/Hoekstra piece, to consider:

...(L)ast year, Petronas's new gas pipeline on Borneo Island was shut down, and remains out of use, due to a massive explosion because of construction on soil that proved unstable...



'Nuff said?


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8 comments:

Grant G said...

Unstable land...You mean like soft sandy riverbed at the mouth of the Skeena River?

If I`m not mistaken, Richmond, Delta has the same type of soil, experts warn that in an earthquake sandy places like Richmond everything sinks, the earth turns to liquid..

Cascadia mega earthquake is due..

Monster Earthquake and Killer Tsunami Still Overdue, Let the Cascadia Russian Roulette Games Begin

http://powellriverpersuader.blogspot.ca/2012/10/monster-earthquake-and-killer-tsunami.html

In The Line of Fire


http://powellriverpersuader.blogspot.ca/2015/03/howe-sound-bowen-island-west-vancouver.html

Kim said...

I love your sub header. My new earworm for the day.

Anonymous said...

kinda like the mining strict regulatory regime for tailings ponds?
and long trains that connect?
less safety more profit?
and oil spils in English bay response?
anddrifting ships ?

Anonymous said...

http://www.cbc.ca/news/probe-of-cp-rail-mountain-crash-in-b-c-examines-over-length-train-1.3218485

e.a.f. said...

well if petronas is up to its "usual standards" and the b.c. lieberals are up to their "usual standards" B.C. can expect more than a few problems. Wonder how Christy will handle those "photo ops". shed a tear and promise a million?

then she will get back to her promises of trillions of dollars, a hundred thousand jobs, and the usual bull tweet. oh those b.c. lieberals. they actually make the Hell's Angels look like a caring group.

Anonymous said...

The more times I hear world class the less cache it has and more caveat emptor

Anonymous said...

http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-immigrants-cash-funds-luxury-towers-in-the-u-s-1441848965

RossK said...

Sorry 'bout that Kim...


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