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A section of oil pipeline was confirmed to have been damaged and moved more than 100 feet along the ocean floor, another indication that a ship’s anchor may have caused the oil spill in Huntington Beach.
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Lewis Adnan's insight:
A section of the pipeline has been moved over 100ft, opening up a facture in the pipeline where the oil escaped from. It is hypothesized a ship anchor is what dragged the pipeline. I have never heard of this happening before. If it has I wonder how frequently an event like this takes place.
Brennan LaMont's comment,
October 7, 2021 1:56 PM
Lewis, Based on what I've heard, this seems to be due to the overwhelming back-up of ships waiting to drop goods off in Southern California. While we have long had a dependance on East Asian markets, we have historically only looked at the economic loss to US companies when work is sent abroad. Hopefully this oil spill will make it clear that our absolute reliance on East Asia for the goods we purchase and have manufactured has an environmental impact as well. And now that cost has shown to expand beyond moving things literally across an ocean, but damage to infrastructure, such as this oil pipeline, with an increase in transatlantic trade.
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