To happen. the accidents have been happening. repeatedly on this pipeline. critics say they were largely ignored until the gulf oil crisis. this latest leak, 13,000 barrels, was contained inside a pump station, while crews built around the leak. they still don t know the cause. and that s the problem, says representative gutenberg. by phone from fairbanks, he says lack of oversight allows the pipeline company to do what it wants. so where have they been? we re constantly told alyeska s gold standard of pipeline integrity and we re looking at it trying to figure out what s happening. reporter: alyeska s official dispute the allegations of shotty maintenance, saying they have addressed piping issues an alyeska spokesperson said in an e-mail that we ve made numerous repairs. in the umer of 2010, we replaced approximately 600 feet of buried
The pipeline responsible for supplying a major source of u.s. oil is up and running after an unprecedented shutdown this month. it pumps about 11% of the nation s oil from wells in alaska s north slope. but operations came to a screeching halt when a leak was detected at pump station one in prudhoe bay. bp is one of the companies that owns the pipeline. critics say they re pushing the pipeline to cut corners on maintenance. drew griffin has been following the story. drew is joining us now with the latest. what s going on, drew? well, wolf, a lot of the criticism has come from congress itself. the senator from alaska is the latest to call for a hearing. he wants to know if maintenance cuts or delays are causing all this. this latest leak led to the
Shutdown of the transaction pipeline for more than three days. and kept more than 2 million barrels of oil from market. 30 years of wear and tear on this engineeri inin ining marved with maintenance may create a recipe for disaster? a very hard to reach location. that is the belief of fairbanks state representative, david gutenberg who told us this summer he sees a string of small mishaps and maintenance deadlines as a sign the pipeline s principle owner, bp, is willing to risk alaska s pristine environment to save money. i guess your fear is the same bp corporate culture that we re seeing in the gulf of mexico where corners were cut is the same corporate culture managing this pipeline. well, that s the been the problem, i believe, yes. not just an accident waiting
for one, in a name it s apple on the mobile front. another company that s that it s facing is facebook. if i m turning to social media for my answers, as opposed to google, that s a problem for google. google needs to step up both it s done a great job in the mobile world, but needs to keep the pedal to the metal. in the social world, it needs to come up with products that pull people more into the google world and make google your friend as opposed to a source of information. michael copeland, thanks. thanks, wolf. growing concerns of a new oil disaster involving a major pipeline. cnn investigates what many fear is an accident waiting to happen. and the amazing story of a woman who was kidnapped as a baby and found her mom, 23 years later. .
Piping with new, above-ground piping. last summer the pipeline official flatly denied the pipeline was under any pressure to cut maintenance cost. we stick to safety, integrity, environmental protection, and protection of a safe workforce. are you under pressure to cut costs on this pipeline? no, we re not under pressure to cut costs. representative gutenberg says the latest leak is another warning that the next oil disaster could well be in some of the roughest, wildest, and harshest environments to clean up. one of these days it s not going to be environmentally safe or contained. and we re going to have another valdez on the rocks. and the problems with the tra transacti