ro rocked the san francisco bay area for miles. in fact, at first, officials believe a plane may have crashed because the blast occurred near the san francisco airport. but the source was a huge explosion of a natural gas pipeline in san bruno last september. eight people were killed. 37 homes were destroyed. now four months later officials are still not sure what caused it but the national transportation safety board issued seven recommendations, six urgent pressing for greater monitoring by the california utility responsible for the pipeline that exploded, the pacific gas and electric company pg&e. among the recommendations, pipeline operators in california and the rest of the country should find and correct any record keeping mistakes that could cause pipelines to be operated at unsafe pressure. pacific gas and electric should immediately search for all gas pipelines that have not been pressure tested. pacific gas and electric should aggressively and diligently comply with the ntsb
it is an impact on the environment and the community. it is devastating. no matter how safe transcanada claims the pipeline will be, there is no way they can guarantee that there won t be a spill. it is more than possible. it is an absolute. there will be spills. and there will be damage. he doesn t mention transcanada s shaky record on pipeline safety. hold it right there! we haven t talked enough about this but they are having quite the conversation about transcanada north of the border. you see in late 2012, a whistle-blower, someone who wanted to tell somebody something step forward alleged transcanada was using substandard welding practices and not properly inspecting their pipelines? wow. that s a heck of a claim. these folks want to put a pipe right through our land? here is more on this story from the canadian broadcasting company. check it out. pipeline operators like