{"id":1469,"date":"2015-05-08T07:53:53","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T12:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/?p=1469"},"modified":"2015-05-08T07:53:53","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T12:53:53","slug":"first-keystone-pipeline-showing-dangerous-level-of-corrosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/2015\/05\/08\/first-keystone-pipeline-showing-dangerous-level-of-corrosion\/","title":{"rendered":"First Keystone pipeline showing dangerous level of corrosion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">DeSmogBlog<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Documents obtained by DeSmogBlog reveal an alarming rate of corrosion to parts of TransCanada&#8217;s Keystone 1 pipeline. A mandatory inspection test revealed a section of the pipeline&#8217;s wall had corroded 95%, leaving it paper-thin in one area (one-third the thickness of a dime) and dangerously thin in three other\u00a0places, leading TransCanada to immediately shut it down. The cause of the corrosion is being kept from the public by federal regulators and\u00a0TransCanada.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is highly unusual for a pipeline not yet two years old to experience such deep corrosion issues,\u201d Evan Vokes, a former TransCanada pipeline engineer-turned-whistleblower, told\u00a0DeSmogBlog. \u201cSomething very severe happened that the public needs to know\u00a0about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/2015\/04\/30\/exclusive-transcanada-keystone-1-pipeline-suffered-major-corrosion-only-two-years-operation-95-worn-one-section\" target=\"_blank\">Read\u00a0the full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From DeSmogBlog: Documents obtained by DeSmogBlog reveal an alarming rate of corrosion to parts of TransCanada&#8217;s Keystone 1 pipeline. A mandatory inspection test revealed a section of the pipeline&#8217;s wall had corroded 95%, leaving it paper-thin in one area (one-third the thickness of a dime) and dangerously thin in three other\u00a0places, leading TransCanada to immediately &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/2015\/05\/08\/first-keystone-pipeline-showing-dangerous-level-of-corrosion\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">First Keystone pipeline showing dangerous level of corrosion<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1470,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions\/1470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}