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CI Boom 2014 Feb
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CI Boom 2014 Feb describes critical infrastructure disasters. What can be done to
mitigate such incidents are in my main analysis document.1 Last updated 2014 Feb 25
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Table of Contents, allow up to level 3 Summary ......................................................................................................................... 2 Tags............................................................................................................................. 3 Geography and severities............................................................................................ 3 CI disaster stories 2014 February ....................................................................................... 3 California Polio-like........................................................................................................ 4 2014 Feb Energy needs during a severe winter .................................................................. 4 2014 Feb 01 Indonesia Volcano 14 dead ..................................................................... 5 2014 Feb 02 NC coal ash spilled .................................................................................... 5 Sierra Club on Coal Ash ............................................................................................. 5 2014 Feb 02 Air disaster Dubai preparedness ................................................................ 5 2014 Feb 03 Keystone study = cancer ............................................................................ 6 2014 Feb 05 Argentina Archive fire 9 dead................................................................. 6 2014 Feb 05 Fracking Methane Risks ............................................................................ 6 2014 Feb 06 tool to track oil spills.................................................................................. 6 2014 Feb 06 KC Mo Investigation.................................................................................. 6 2014 Feb 06 CRS report on rail transport of oil ............................................................. 7 2014 Feb 06 International Safety Rules.......................................................................... 8 2014 Feb 08 Gas Leak Detection new system ................................................................ 8 2014 Feb 08 Bangladesh Owners Surrender................................................................... 8 2014 Feb 09 Smoking ignites Gas Leak ......................................................................... 9 2014 Feb 09 Fukushima Scare........................................................................................ 9 2014 Feb 10 Peterborough NH Ball Bearings Explosion ............................................... 9 2014 Feb 10 Oil Leaks Profitable ................................................................................... 9 2014 Feb 10 Or Disaster Agency Fails Audit ............................................................... 10 2014 Feb 11 WV Coal Slurry spill ............................................................................... 10 2014 Feb 11 Pa Chevron Gas Well Explosion and Fire ............................................... 10 2014 Feb 11 IN building explodes................................................................................ 11 2014 Feb 12 CI Cyber Security .................................................................................... 11 2014 Feb 12 GAO Bad Weather Impact....................................................................... 12 2014 Feb 12 CNN Editorial: Bury Power Lines........................................................... 12 2014 Feb 13 KY gas line explosion.............................................................................. 12 2014 Feb-14 ...................................................................................................................... 13 2014 Feb 14 NM Radioactive Waste Breach................................................................ 13 2014 Feb 14 Pa Turnpike pile up.................................................................................. 14 2014 Feb 14 NY lawsuit demanding more fracking ..................................................... 14
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2014 Feb 14 USA Methane risks .................................................................................. 14 2014 Feb 14 Coal power plants to be replaced ............................................................. 15 2014 Feb-15 ...................................................................................................................... 15 2014 Feb 15 Weather Lessons ...................................................................................... 15 2014 Feb 16 Israeli cell phones vs. gas explosion 5 dead ......................................... 15 2014 Feb 17 Asteroid close approach to Earth ............................................................. 16 2014 Feb 19 Fukushima Leak....................................................................................... 16 2014 Feb 19 Keystone Updates .................................................................................... 17 2014 Feb 20 GA Movie Crew hit by freight train 1 dead.......................................... 18 2014 Feb 21 Utah factory explodes .............................................................................. 18 2014 Feb 21 Newton MA Manhole Explosion. ............................................................ 19 2014 Feb 21 KY Cane Run Odor.................................................................................. 19 2014 Feb-22 ...................................................................................................................... 19 2014 Feb 22 Enbridge oil leaks into Ontario Canada ................................................... 19 2014 Feb 22 Britain Nuclear Gamble ........................................................................... 20 2014 Feb 22 Carbon Monoxide in NY Mall 1 dead .................................................. 20 2014 Feb 22 Toone TN 2 Kilgore explosions............................................................... 20 2014 Feb 22 Chicago IL house explodes...................................................................... 21 2014 Feb 22 Indianapolis In house fire - 4 dead........................................................... 21 2014 Feb 22 KS Dust Bowl returning says Al Gore..................................................... 21 2014 Feb 22 G20 discusses Infrastructure .................................................................... 21 2014 Feb-23 ...................................................................................................................... 21 2014 Feb 23 Mississippi River Oil Spill....................................................................... 21 2014 Feb 24 UK Oil and Gas Industry ......................................................................... 22 2014 Feb 24 BC Canada House Explodes .................................................................... 22 2014 Feb 25 Ireland Gas Fire Explosion ...................................................................... 22 Continued in more documents .......................................................................................... 22
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The following is also description in Scribd upload, of what is relevant to this time line segment. Events & new info in 2014 Feb time line were in: Argentina; Bangladesh; Britain; Canada; Dubai; G20; Indonesia; Ireland; Israel; Japan; USA. A spectrum of critical infrastructure disasters occurred in Feb 2014, for which humans were unprepared, although most of the disasters were sufficiently predictable, that they should have been better mitigated, Theres science and engineering best practices to limit risk of a spill, and if there is a leak, either rapidly detect it and fix it, or limit how far the trouble spreads. This is apparently missing for many enterprises handling dangerous chemicals, and for people living and working near gas leaks,
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11 Tags or major areas of concern, with the info in this time line installment: Disaster unpreparedness, evacuation, explosions, fracking, keystone, leak detection, mapping utilities, nuclear, spill, statistics, winter weather drivers
Fracking Gas Factory explosions NH Peterborough Ball Bearings 2014 Feb-10 TN Munitions 2014 Feb-22 UT Magnesium 2014 Feb-21 IL Chicago 2014 Feb 22 IN 2014 Feb 11 and 22 KY 2014 Feb-13 MA Boston 2014 Feb 21 PA 2014 Feb 11-16 2014 Feb 09 Ireland 2014 Feb 25 Israel 2014 Feb 16
Radioactive Waste Breach Tar sands can allegedly cause cancer Winter Weather drivers sometimes seem unable to drive safetly
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consider what improvements could be made in efforts to mitigate risk of high damage in the next similar incident, or even reduce the frequency in which they occur. My overall analysis and mitigation evaluation is in a separate parent document, from these incident time-line chunks.2 There seem to be many causes, for Critical Infrastructure disasters, such as: ignorance about risks, on the part of companies, government officials, and the general public; criminal negligence, more commonly unintentional than intentional; insufficient corporate reporting to local government what dangerous chemicals they have, so that zoning can avoid schools and high density population right next door; a lack of public education to get witnesses to promptly report leak odors; government safety and environmental regulations poorly communicated to where there is need to know them typically government inspectors visit a microscopic fraction of places they know about, and educate thru infraction notification, while there are many thousands of relevant places unknown to regulatory agencies; certain stupid behavior leads to totally avoidable disasters, but this happens piecemeal in community after community, different places which fail to learn from a million other communities, until it is their turn to experience the same type event.
California Polio-like
In the past 18 months, 20 people have been infected so far, mostly children, all of whom were vaccinated against polio.3
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The report gives info on oil transported by pipeline, rail, truck, barge, ocean going vessels, with statistics on volumes, economics, oil spills, for each. See the graphic on page 12 actual, 9 labeled. This info is very different than what I have seen from other sources, which claimed pipelines are the safest way for oil to travel.
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I remember this rail safety design from a Breaking Bad episode of how to steal from it.17
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http://www.naturalgaswatch.org/?p=2671 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en_CiEnJ4Wo&feature=player_detailpage#t=165 25 http://www.helencaldicott.com/ 26 http://www.ucsusa.org/ http://allthingsnuclear.org/ 27 http://www.fas.org/ http://www.fas.org/programs/ssp/nukes/index.html 28 http://www.scribd.com/collections/4108520/Japan-Nuclear-Tsunami 29 http://www.wthr.com/story/24684737/explosion-causes-injuries-at-nh-ball-bearing-plant http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/national/northeast/2014/02/explosion_at_nh_ball_bearings_plant_in jures_15 http://www.necn.com/02/10/14/2-employees-critically-injured-in-Peterb/landing.html?blockID=862711 http://www.necn.com/02/11/14/NH-plant-remains-closed-for-first-shift/landing.html?blockID=862721&feedID=11106 http://www.seattlepi.com/news/us/article/Fire-marshal-OSHA-look-into-explosion-at-NH-plant5223283.php
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1. Government funds reimburse them for cost of clean up. 2. Insurance company reimburses them for cost of clean up. This is called double dipping, and it is fraud. Reuters found nine US states have won settlements worth more than $105 million with four companies in the past three years Chevron, Exxon, ConocoPhillips and its downstream arm Phillips 66, and Sunoco.. 30
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crews, from the time Wild Well Control left Houston, until when they arrived on the scene in Greene County. The Pa head of DEP thinks that with modern technology state-of-art, such response should be no more than 5 hours. Feb-14 adjacent well 6H began burning, after sustaining damage from the heat of the fire from the initial well. Feb-15 afternoon the two wells are no longer burning. Feb-16 the local staff was able to perform an assessment of the situation, planning to cap some wells. Before implementing this, they had to remove a crane, approx 30 feet from the well head, which had been damaged by the fires, and bring in some special equipment to do so. Unrelated to the latest fire, but related to how this site operates, in December 2013, DEP inspectors found that Chevron had laid a pipeline across the pad and an access road without permission from the department. People doing construction in Pa, are not supposed to do so, without a permit. 34
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http://www.naturalgaswatch.org/?p=2644 http://stateimpact.npr.org/pennsylvania/2014/02/17/with-fire-out-crews-move-toward-capping-wells-atgreene-county-explosion-site/ 35 http://archive.indystar.com/article/20140211/NEWS02/302110021/Explosion-levels-unoccupied-Atticabuilding-search-pending http://www.theindychannel.com/news/local-news/explosion-reported-at-attica-church http://www.wibc.com/news/story.aspx?ID=2122773 36 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attica,_Indiana 37 http://www.nist.gov/ 38 http://www.nist.gov/cyberframework/upload/cybersecurity-framework-021214-final.pdf I downloaded a copy & put it with other Cyber Security downloads within my National Security collection. 39 http://threatpost.com/us-government-delivers-cybersecurity-framework-for-critical-infrastructure/104243
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According to the United States Global Change Research Program,40 the costs and impacts of weather disasters resulting from floods, drought, and other events are expected to increase in significance as previously rare event s become more common and intense. Since 1980, the U.S. has experienced 151 weather disasters with damages exceeding 1 billion dollars each. This GAO testimony is on 4 areas where the government could limit its fiscal exposure.
Property and Crop Insurance is suffering more thanks to climate change. Disaster Aid is dramatically increasing. Infrastructure owners and operators are also impacted by climate change. Total public spending on transportation and water infrastructure exceeds $300 billion annually, with about 25 percent coming from the federal government and the rest from state and local governments. Access to climate info could be used to improve resiliency.
Latest information from GAO is available at http://www.gao.gov. Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/usgao Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/usgao 41 Information about GAOs email subscription options is available here.
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Critical Infrastructure Disasters 2014 Feb 20 residences evacuated. 2 people received non-life threatening injuries.
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Columbia Gulf Transmission detected a drop in gas pressure in the pipe, at the time of the explosion, determined there was a rupture, and immediately responded to the scene to isolate the damaged section of pipe. The 30-inch natural gas line was about 100 feet from Highway 76 buried 30 feet down in the side of the hill. It is used to transport natural gas from the Gulf of Mexico to New York.43 NPR investigated this pipeline company and found this pipeline had 26 incidents in the past 10 years, ranging from costly leaks and broken equipment to an explosion on a corroded 1950s-era pipe that killed a man and injured another. US pipelines experience an average of roughly 90 failures a year that the government considers significant. 44 These incidents fuel more opposition to regional plans to increase pipelines in the area. In this case it is the proposed Bluegrass Pipeline. The previous day there was a giant sinkhole which swallowed up eight fancy Corvettes at the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green.45
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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/02/13/natural-gas-line-explosion-ruralkentucky/5447025/ http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20140213/NEWS01/302130028/Gas-line-explosion-Adair-Countydestroys-homes-causes-evacuations http://www.naturalgaswatch.org/?p=2588 44 http://www.npr.org/2014/02/22/280991672/explosion-on-ky-natural-gas-pipeline-under-investigation 45 http://blogs.courier-journal.com/watchdogearth/2014/02/13/explosion-sinkhole-fuel-bluegrass-pipelinecriticism/ 46 http://www.seattlepi.com/business/energy/article/Nuke-dump-officials-confirm-leak-of-waste5251553.php http://enenews.com/tv-drums-of-radioactive-waste-may-be-smashed-and-opened-after-roof-collapse-atleaking-u-s-nuclear-site-official-we-believe-theres-been-a-breach-its-a-very-serious-thing-seismi http://enenews.com/reports-plutonium-did-get-out-of-u-s-nuclear-facility-we-dont-know-what-happenedinside-why-it-happened-whether-it-could-happen-again-the-big-problem-is-how-much-was-released-or 47 http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/n-m-nuclear-waste-site-stays-closed-after-radiation-leak-n35246 http://www.legitgov.org/NM-Nuclear-Waste-Site-Stays-Closed-After-Radiation-Leak-Plugged
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Feb-15, DOE on announced that it had shuttered operations in response to an underground radiation sensor. Feb-19 DOE confirmed that radiation had also been released above ground, about a half mile from the plant. Feb-23 at a press conference, Jose Franco, manager of the DOE's Carlsbad Field Office, confirmed publicly that readings from the monitors matched materials from the waste that is stored there, indicating a leak.
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explanation sounds absurd to me. How can cell phone hardware cause a gas explosion? Could the people, installing the antennae, somehow rupture a gas line? 57
Situation: Asteroid 2000 EM26 made a close approach to earth at 9 pm EST on Feb 17, 2014 Basic Facts / Additional Information: Asteroid 2000 EM26 is 885 feet in diameter Moving at 27,000 mph Closest approach was 1.6 million miles from Earth Flyby came almost exactly a year after two major events on Feb. 15, 2013 NASAs Near Earth Object (NEO) Program knew the orbit well enough to rule out impact; 0 (no hazard) on the Torino scale58 For more info see NASAs Near Earth Object ( NEO) Program59
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2014 Feb 19 Keystone Updates A year ago, the governor of Nebraska (NB) gave approval not only for Keystone
going thru his state, but also to let the TransCanada company to use eminent domain to seize whatever private land was needed to build it. Feb 19 2014, a federal judge vacated that approval, pointing out that under NB law, this is not the Governors decision, it is that of the Public Service Commission (PSC). 61 The PSC in turn, has come under criticism, because officials elected to it, have been receiving campaign contributions from the very companies they sit in judgment of.62
US Regulators seem to give Natural Gas a break, compared to strict oversight of proposed new pipelines like Keystone, and there is no general agreement how come. 63 I suspect lobbyists and activists for a clean environment, citing huge oil dumps into formerly clean areas, have more news media clout than the thousands of small communities which have each suffered a few dozen deaths from natural gas leaks and explosions.
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Meanwhile, an Environment Canada study, accepted for publication in the journal Environmental Science and Technology, has strongly backed suspicions that toxic chemicals from Albertas vast oil sands tailings ponds are leaching into groundwater and seeping into the Athabasca River.64 For additional Keystone story installments, see: 2014 Feb 03 2014 Jan 31 2013 June 25 Also use search, in general, since some pipeline disaster stories make reference to their negative PR impact on proposed new pipelines.
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Like in the USA, the government of Canada has different agencies with overlapping jurisdictions and conflicting regulations, so a company can think it is in compliance, but only be with some of the rules.72
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http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/torontopipeline/2014/02/22/enbridge_line_9_w5_uncovers_unreported_s pills_alarming_communities_along_830km_pipe.html 73 http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/feb/23/nuclear-leaks-bill-paid-taxpayer http://www.legitgov.org/Nuclear-leaks-bill-will-be-paid-taxpayer 74 http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/23/justice/new-york-carbon-monoxide-poisoning/ http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Faulty-pipe-led-to-NY-mall-carbon-monoxide-leak-5259916.php 75 http://www.wmctv.com/story/24794385/plant-explosion-injures-several-employees http://wreg.com/2014/02/22/man-critically-injured-in-kilgore-plant-explosion/ http://www.jacksonsun.com/article/20140222/NEWS01/140222006/At-least-one-injured-explosionKilgore-Flares-plant-Toone 76 http://wreg.com/2014/02/22/man-critically-injured-in-kilgore-plant-explosion/ http://www.kptv.com/story/24799985/national-response-team-arrives-to-investigate-plant-explosions
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These time line history segments to be uploaded to same SCRIBD Critical Infrastructure collection.97 Revision history maintained in main parent document.
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