Utah pipeline break fouls geese, ducks

[IDemo]

Source: Associated Press

Chevron vows to pay for Salt Lake City creek, pond cleanup

updated 19 minutes ago

SALT LAKE CITY - A leaked pipeline sent oil spilling into a Salt Lake City creek, coating geese and ducks and closing a park, officials said Saturday as they started a cleanup effort expected to last weeks.

At least 400 to 500 barrels of oil spewed into Red Butte Creek before crews capped the leak site. Nearly 50 gallons of crude oil per minute initially had spilled into the creek, according to Scott Freitag, a Salt Lake City Fire Department spokesman.

"Our real concern is keeping people safe, and keeping the oil from reaching the Great Salt Lake," he told the Deseret News.

Chevron determined the pipeline broke at 10 p.m. Friday, and police and fire crews were notified of it shortly before 7 am. Saturday.

Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37664548/ns/us_news-environment/

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[izquierdista]

1. They weren't fowls before the spill?

:shrug:

[Hydra]

2. Great...oil in my state too

I wonder what the PR teams in Mecca will say.

[dencol]

3. They're only acting so responsible in light of the Gulf oil volcano.

They have to deflect ANY attention possible from this and the dangers of our addiction to oil.