Proud to announce that broken-spokeperson
Michelle Egan has become a coveted honorary of the Alyeska Pipeline STUPIDITY
Company’s “We Tell a Doozy” Club.
“We have been in contact with our
regulators since the beginning,” Egan said in an email back in March of this
year. “We followed our permit and reported emissions appropriately.”
Sorry, but with gaping 12”
diameter holes in (4) of the massive 550000-barrel steel storage tanks at the
Valdez Marine Terminal, Milepost 801 the “End” of the Trans-Alaska-Pipeline,
that cover-up answer is baffling – a real “Doozy” in a pledge of allegiance
missing – to tell the TRUTH. Remember “we learned it all in kindergarten” then
when Alyeska went hiring…well common sense went missing! Yes indeed, this
“doozy” as storage tanks containing “North Slope” crude oil, now with holes so
the once corralled “benzene” can scorch earth the atmosphere - wherein once a
valve was set in place minding its own business to control emissions. Huge tanks
containing crude oil with a vapor pressure that is unmeasurable, with all the
variables consistent with tank outgassing consistent with benzene and toluene
and explosive severity scarry, there is no way to report emissions with any
semblance in accuracy but for a “guess”. And Alyeska should have relayed in
statement to the “public” that instead, as “reported appropriately” is a
meaningless wet-dream…let’s hope the regulators are on to this “scam”! As let
us not forget that Alyeska already finds itself listed on the OSHA site for “Enforcement
Action with Penalties of $40,000 or Above” and at the time of this “Doozy” that
Alyeska was contesting a $25,000 penalty for “benzene emissions and worker
exposure” along with a “Records Keeping Violation” and a $402,000 penalty that
cited Alyeska for 38 SERIOUS VIOLATIONS, for the same damn thing wherein cancer
causing “benzene” is present! And did someone in the Alyeska organization
forgot that snow-load is a destructive force of Nature? So if the regulators
are worth their beans, Alyeska should be “vaporized” - find some reputable outfit
that knows how to run a pipeline on empty.
OK, it appears that the
“Alyeska Culture of Corruption”, wherein it hurts one’s career to tell the TRUTH, well it
appears that all the hard work that ex-President Bob Malone put into
assassinating that “culture” has once again risen from the dead and is just
more of the same. Déjà vu? So what does Alyeska do now that the company cannot
even shovel snow correctly? Well they bring back from retirement Betsy Haines,
who has been part of that Howitt Cowitt culture since 1990, the Princess Worrier,
the token and if you thought a drunk Joe Hazelwood or a drunked up hunter using
the pipeline as target practice was bad for the environment, stay tuned! I
guess Alyeska likes doing stupid things so it can talk all about it in front of
the U.S. Congress. But here we have it, a company that can’t even manage to
shovel snow, in ALASKA!
