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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