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Originally Posted by fotze
The costs of cleaning up something like this are absolutely prohibitive. I was a little flippant in my initial post on how easy it is to solve all these problems. i.e. I read that Plains midstream break last year and the resulting shut down resulted in a loss of $1.5 billion in Royalties. These breaks suck a lot more for the company than for the government, public.
I think the public would be shocked in how much pipeline is in this province. It is not possible to have full proof never leak pipelines in the same way that we will never have roads free of accidents. They should have regs to limit the frequency and impact though.
Maybe require flow meters at the battery and at the wellhead.
Flow going to the line must equal flow going to the wellhead.
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I don't think zero tolerance its the goal, it's unattainable. However, an uneducated eye sees that the level of accountability doesn't seem to enough to deter these things. Perhaps there needs to be more penalties? Like one day on jail for fotze per day for every ml leaked from his pipeline?