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Insider reveals concealed error in Pipeline Safety Equipment

January 30, 2012

For Firedoglake by Greg Palast

search-1They threatened me. Last night I got a call and they threatened me. If I talked.

Pig Man #2, a pipeline industry insider, had a good reason to be afraid.  He was about to blow the whistle on a fraud, information that could blow away the XL Keystone Pipeline project.

His information: The software for the crucial piece of pipeline safety equipment, the Smart PIG, has a flaw known to the industry but concealed from regulators.search

The Pig in the XL Pipeline
Insider reveals concealed error in pipeline safety equipment that could blow away the GOP’s XL pipe dream

read the rest of the article at Greg Palast.

January 30, 2012 Filed Under: Environment Tagged With: Corporate Power, Extractive Industries, oil

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