Comments about ‘Aftermath of the S.L. oil spill: Did power line cause the break?’

There's something wrong here. Even though the pipeline was supposedly instrumented, the break Friday evening went entirely undetected by Chevron. Chevron was notified of their leak Saturday, by the people they had been dumping crude on for hours and hours.

kind of strange that smell would get any one really sick..Poor Animals near the park mostly geese and wild ducks some fish..
Thanks to Hogle Zoo for helping.And to those maintaining the structure of this ponds thru the river of oil mud and Debris!

Wow Mother Nature has been getting her trash kicked lately by the oil and gas industry.

Call me crazy but I think this industry may need more regulation.

It should be noted that the site of the pipeline break is being treated as a crime scene. It will be interesting to see how this unfolds as details come out.

...and you can bet your sweet patootie that quadrillionaire corporation Chevron will be passing on the cost of this cleanup to the Utah driver, in the guise of more $$$$ at the gas pumps. Since we're already up there at the top of the most expensive gas prices in the nation, what's another buck or two?

'Drill baby, drill!' - Sarah Palin

'Drill here, drill now!' - Republican party

"oil ocmpanies only drill in the gulf because the environmentalist won't let them drill on land."

Underwater there in utah?

Im beginning to think if this was ALL done on purpose!!!!!!!!

Where is the statement from Governor Herbert?

Screwdriver | 1:44 p.m I live encircled by the world's richest farm lands. There in California's Central Valley I've see drilling rigs shout faster than California grown Asparagus.

It speaks to who listen to the lies that people hear and believe we aren't drilling on land. Then, why is California America's third oil producer?

Drill baby drill.

It just seems so odd that the pipeline failed in such a crucial spot. Could this be vandalism or done intentially by someone?

I hope that Chevron will be able to restore the affected area to it's pre spill condition, the people in the affected area deserve no less. I would encourage people to calm down and watch carefully and see what Chevron actually does in regards to this incident. I do think that people in the area need to get informed as to who in the Utah Govement is overseeing this cleanup and get regular updates and stay informed. The people in local and state goverment levels need to make sure that the people living in the affected area are kept up to date as to how the cleanup is progressing on a regular basis.

'It just seems so odd that the pipeline failed in such a crucial spot. Could this be vandalism or done intentially by someone?' - 3:09 p.m.

A good question, but without any evidence it simply leads to speculation.

Could this have just as well been Chevron ignoring the pipeline? Or worse, trying to cut costs' and ignore (if any) regulation?

Equally as possible.

Also, we have other examples of this happening, with minimal changes.

Exxon, Alaska pipeline spill, etc.

This while some try to justify, not the spilling, but the drilling.

I'm surprised the media hasn't shifted to a smaller unit of measurement yet. I mean, 33,000 gallons seems like a lot, even though you'd usually expect oil to be measured in barrels. I guess "785" didn't quite fill out the headline like "33,000" did.

Just to help out if they need some stronger headlines in the morning, they could consider:
528,000 CUPS of oil!
8,448,000 OUNCES of oil!
Or to really throw people off they could go metric:
125 MILLION milliliters of oil!

/sarcasm on/

I thought oil was a natural substance, as natural as the water. Why bother cleaning it up?

/sarcasm off/

@PDondy,

I'm guessing your house isn't along Red Butte Creek.

To Screwdriver at 1:44pm. Did you not read the article? This pipeline comes from Colorado, not Utah, although it travels through Utah, and has been in existence for 62 years. There is drilling on land in both Utah and Colorado, obviously, but it has been curtailed greatly in recent months, to the point that our economy here in Eastern Utah is almost shut down. It is easier to deal with spills and other disasters on land than it is in the ocean, i.e. the Gulf of Mexico, because the problem can be contained more quickly. Equipment does fail occasionally, and Chevron acted quickly. It also sounds like this might have been a freaky incident with an electrical arc that happened due to the storm that night. That is being investigated.

Thanks to all the employees at Tracy Aviary and the Zoo for their work helping the birds. Many would be dead if not for their efforts.

Funny that the woman quoted in the article praised Chevron and slammed BP. Does anybody really think that BP is just sitting around while they watch 15,000 barrels of oil go to waste each day? At 80 bucks a barrel, that is 1.2 million dollars of revenue floating away each day. Add in the cost of all of the cleanup, I guarantee that BP is doing everything possible to try and stop this thing. Money talks and to think otherwise is just plain idiotic, myopic, or throw in your favorite word.

I have to give some credit to the oil companies response and clean up and accountability of this spill. Having to work around development and growth makes it harder to access it all but they seem to be doing the best they can. Then the cooperation of the people has helped them a lot too.

In the late 40's the pipeline was installed when the land was pristine, they had no EPA or environmental studies. I don't think monitoring pressure is enough.

When the well's run dry what happens to the pipelines and the crude lining the pipes? Will they become like the old gas tanks that had to be removed because they developed leaks?

The growth by the industrial age is now taking its toll. No one thought then or now about 50-100 years ahead about the replacement or management of what is built. Now that we have gotten out of the business of industry, it's all cleanup work now.