Posted on 11/28/2007 8:35:18 PM PST by Flavius
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Enbridge Inc (ENB.TO) has shut down four of its main pipelines that supply over 2 million barrels per day (bpd) of Canadian oil to the U.S. Midwest due to an explosion and a fire in Minnesota, the company said on Wednesday.
The Calgary, Alberta-based company said all Enbridge pipelines in the vicinity of its Clearbrook, Minnesota, terminal -- Lines 1, 2, 3, and 4 -- were immediately shut down and isolated and emergency crews dispatched to the site of the fire.
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Could be nothing. Then again, who hates the US enough to blow up pipelines and hurt the US economy?
Suspicious. If it were natural gas, it could explode maybe. But does crude oil explode? I don’t think so.
It could still be an accident of some sort, but it seems suspicious to me, on the face of it.
$4.00 gallon gas?
Here we go again. I notice there are no pictures of massive flames. But gas prices have fallen in the last few days. And oil prices fell in the last couple of days also. So I expect we will see more items like this over the next few weeks. Tomorrow they will report an oil rig on fire or a couple of oil tankers leaking. All without any pictures or proof. Go MSM Go. I for one don’t believe.
Oh that’s just great.......
Should have filled up the vehicles today.
Just in time. Oil was getting down close to $90.
No idea what happened, but there is no doubt it will be either an accident or a careless cause reported eventually.
Apparently, they’d been working on the line for the past few weeks due to leaking crude. When they finished and pressurized the line, crude started spraying out and it caught on fire. It then spread and/or exploded.
Maybe a leak in the pipe caused the oil to spray out in a fine mist, and coincidentally, the cold air and heaps of metal contributed a spark forming, causing said explosion...
Of course, given how we've heard rumors and allegations about how terrorists were targeting our energy infrastructure, primarily oil, in what would be an attempt to push our economy into a recession... Well, it isn't that difficult to entertain the possibility that the "accident" had a little help.
Also, one of my more paranoid ideas is that an American liberal would arrange for such "accidents" with the hope that a recession would force our nation into the necessary crisis to end the war in Iraq, and elect Democrats to both elected branches.
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A fire burning at the Enbridge Inc (ENB.TO: Quote) oil terminal in Minnesota that has shut down most of the main pipeline that delivers Canadian crude to U.S. Midwest refineries may burn for three days, a county official said on Thursday.
“The area under fire now is 100 feet by 100 feet, it is anticipated to burn for up to three days,” Jeanine Brand, County Attorney and Public Information Officer for Clearwater County, where the explosion occurred, told Reuters by phone.
“Apparently, there was an oil leak within the last couple of weeks, crews were around when they finished, and they pressured the pipeline, and crude started spilling from the pipeline, oil sprayed and created an oil spill.”
Just so you know, I don’t listen much to my paranoid voices in my head. I just like to entertain these ideas as distant possibilities as a matter of playing out scenarios.
Refineries, coal carrying trains derail, now we get a broken gas pipeline from CAN’TADA. Have you seen this rash of accidents lately around energy supplies? Terorism on Americans in America. We need coastwatchers, border safety, and real ID’s that can’t be reproduced. Deportation of all mulims until they condemn these attacks.
Katie Couric?
Well, as I indicated, it was speculative.
There is considerable evidence that if there IS a terrorist incident, the FBI has often tried to cover it up. The Salt Lake City Mall shootings. The Norman Oklahoma suicide bombing. TWA 800. So even after the details emerge, you seldom have absolute certainty.
Accidents happen, and given enough time unusual accidents can happen. I like to keep an open mind. Paranoid speculation can help to do that, as long as you don’t give in to them uncritically and as long as you understand that you are probably being premature in bringing up the possibility.
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