Latest BP Oil Spill Took Place at Facility Employee Warned Was "Operating in Unsafe Condition"
Jason Leopold, Truthout: "A BP pipeline that ruptured over the weekend and spilled as much as 4,200 gallons of methanol and oily water into the Alaskan tundra took place at a facility that one of the company's employees said in an internal email 'was operating in [an] unsafe condition.' The email, obtained exclusively by Truthout and highlighted in an investigative report published a year ago, was written in January 2010 by an employee who works at the Lisburne Production Center, site of the Saturday's pipeline rupture."
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Michele Kearney's Environmental Blog - Environmental degradation and waning natural resources including energy resources threaten U.S. security. And the loss of renewable natural resources, including forests, fresh water, fish and fertile soils, can drive political instability and conflict in the developing world, and around the globe. In short, natural resoures, energy and the environment are national security issues.
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