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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (2445)	11/7/2002 1:08:36 AM
From: KLP	Respond to of 6901

"800 miles long, and 48 inch diameter....and it bent, but didn't break..." That is truly remarkable, especially with the magnitude of that earthquake!!!

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (2445)	11/7/2002 2:27:54 AM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6901

The original pipeline design might not have fared quite so well. After they bought the pipe it sat doing nothing in a yard during something like four years of political wrangling about environmental protection and native claims settlements. Eventually the authorization passed the Senate in 1969 on a 1-vote tie-breaker vote cast by Vice President Spiro Agnew. During the impasse they had a good opportunity to refine the design. I think this reflects well on the type of relatively open political/economic process we have in the US. In comparison, the Soviet Union experienced a lot of major pipeline spills in Siberia.