<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> ----- Forwarded Message -----<br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Louisette Lanteigne <butterflybluelu@rogers.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> "news@nowtoronto.com" <news@nowtoronto.com>; "news-tips@nytimes.com" <news-tips@nytimes.com>; "news@ctv.ca" <news@ctv.ca>; "newsroom@therecord.com" <newsroom@therecord.com>; "news570@rogers.com" <news570@rogers.com>; "news@swo.ctv.ca" <news@swo.ctv.ca>; "Newsroom@globeandmail.com" <Newsroom@globeandmail.com>; "scoop@huffingtonpost.com"
<scoop@huffingtonpost.com>; "yournews@cbc.ca" <yournews@cbc.ca> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, December 14, 2012 6:09:18 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> US Dept. of Transportation report shows shocking information re: Pipeline Leaks<br> </font> </div> <br><div id="yiv1081313215"><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div>Hello everyone</div><div><span style="font-size:10pt;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">A newly published report by the US department of Transportation Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration reveals that it is up to the public to find oil and gas leaks. Here is a published news article
regarding this: </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://oilandgas-investments.com/2012/energy-services/leak-detection-pipeline-industry/">http://oilandgas-investments.com/2012/energy-services/leak-detection-pipeline-industry/</a></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Here is the link to the full report: </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank"
href="https://primis.phmsa.dot.gov/meetings/FilGet.mtg?fil=397" style="font-size:10pt;">https://primis.phmsa.dot.gov/meetings/FilGet.mtg?fil=397</a></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">Report says that pipeline leaks, ruptures, and spills are “systematically causing more and more property damage…in a bad year you can have up to $5 billion in property damages due to pipeline related accidents.”</span><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent;
font-style: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.983333587646484px;"><br></span></div><div style="color:rgb(17, 17, 17);font-size:14px;font-family:Georgia, 'Times New
Roman', Times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.983333587646484px;"><div style="padding:0px;margin-bottom:1.571em;">Given the volume of public property damage, the report comments that pipeline companies would be “probably justified” in spending $490,000 a year for every 400 miles of pipeline. <span style="background-color:transparent;">He adds that the reality is that “right now companies might spend a tenth of that figure."</span></div><div style="padding: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.571em; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-size: 14px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color:transparent;">In conclusion, leak detection technology around pipelines is not modern, scientific or technical. In today’s age,
that will just not fly politically.</span></div></span></div><div style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-size: 14px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.983333587646484px;">Please publish this information. The public must know this to help prevent spills.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-size: 14px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.983333587646484px;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-size: 14px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="color:
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