Natural Gas Explosion in California

Here are some thoughts on the recent natural gas explosion in San Bruno California, near San Francisco that destroyed a neighborhood. "Though the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has just begun its investigation, the few reports emerging, about the extent to which our nation's natural gas line piping infrastructure has decayed, are shocking and unacceptable. This makes the San Bruno incident one of the worst of several different incidents in the last two decades. According to the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), the agency that answers to NTSB's findings, since 1990 there were 2,840 significant gas pipeline incidents nationwide, including 992 where someone was killed or injured. On top of this, more than 60 percent of the nation's 296,000 miles of pipeline are 40 years old or older, with these older pipelines lacking anti-corrosion coating." Note, the statement is from Summer Shields, a Larouche Youth Movement member, and write-in candidate for Congress against Nancy Pelosi.