Democracy Gone Astray

Democracy, being a human construct, needs to be thought of as directionality rather than an object. As such, to understand it requires not so much a description of existing structures and/or other related phenomena but a declaration of intentionality.
This blog aims at creating labeled lists of published infringements of such intentionality, of points in time where democracy strays from its intended directionality. In addition to outright infringements, this blog also collects important contemporary information and/or discussions that impact our socio-political landscape.

All the posts here were published in the electronic media – main-stream as well as fringe, and maintain links to the original texts.

[NOTE: Due to changes I haven't caught on time in the blogging software, all of the 'Original Article' links were nullified between September 11, 2012 and December 11, 2012. My apologies.]

Monday, December 02, 2013

Apache Canada's Zama City Spill Leaks Waste Water; Second Reported

CALGARY - Alberta's energy regulator is investigating another pipeline leak of waste water.

Apache Canada Ltd. reported one of its operator's discovered the leak on Oct. 25 at its Shekilie field northwest of Zama City and the line was immediately shut in.

The company also says an investigation found the leak began on Oct. 3 and the amount of waste water that leaked was about 1.8 million litres.

Waste water that is extracted during oil and natural gas operations contains oil, salt and other minerals.

Darin Barter of Alberta Energy Regulator confirms Apache reported the leak on Oct. 25 and says the agency won't be able to confirm the amount that spilled until it completes its investigation.

Apache also says it has revised the volume of waste water that spilled from its pipeline in the same area in May to 15.4 million litres, up from its original report of 9.5 million litres.

In a news release dated Oct. 18, Apache it has determined that the pipeline started leaking on May 5, but it wasn't discovered to be leaking until June 1.

Apache says the cause of the pipeline failure was stress corrosion cracking.

It says it was "installing real-time monitoring with SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) to the existing four water injection systems across Apache's Zama operations area."

Original Article
Source: huffingtonpost.ca
Author: CP

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