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- 29 Organizations Say Congressman Young's Pipeline Safety Bill Greatly Inadequate
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To get current pipeline news join the SAFE Pipelines nationwide email discussion list. The list currently includes over 150 people nationwide. This list is dedicated to sharing pipeline safety and pipeline siting information to community activists, government officials, and pipeline experts nationwide. It is our hope that through this sharing, initiatives that will make pipelines safer will be adopted, and that citizens will be given a larger role in the oversight of pipeline safety and pipeline siting nationwide.
You can do that by sending a blank email to: safepipelines-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
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"Unless the basic system of requirements of the system that regulate the
pipelines are increased nationwide, these kinds of events are going to
happen again somewhere else."
-- Bellingham Mayor Mark Asmundson
Photo by Brad Bennett
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DEMAND PIPELINE SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION NOW!
Bellingham, Washington - On June 10, a pipeline ruptured,
spilling approximately 280,000 gallons of gasoline into two creeks in a popular city park. The leak, and the
following explosions and fire that followed, resulted in the deaths of two ten-year old boys and a teenager,
and massive environmental damage along 1.5 miles of an important salmon stream.
Our community and communities nationwide need your help. Pipeline
operators are largely unregulated. Pipelines leak and they leak often.
There is a pipeline release of tens of thousands of gallons
approximately every other day. The most common causes of releases from
hazardous liquid pipelines are corrosion, operational incidents, and
material defects. Please use this site to learn more about this urgent
problem and to tell your state and federal representatives what they
must do to prevent further tragedies like ours.
If you would like more information about SAFE Bellingham or would like
to make a donation to help us make sure that any future or reconstructed
pipelines in our community are safe, please call (360) 733-8307 or send
your donation to:
RE Sources
SAFE Bellingham Project
1155 N. State Street, Suite 623
Bellingham, WA 98225
safebham@re-sources.org
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Last updated: 25, November 2003
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