Technology fails to detect major oil spill
BISMARK is a well known for its monitoring equipment, but what happened recently may change the companies reputation. 176000 gallons of oil leaked into north Dakota creek after main pipe broke, and mentoring equipment failed to pick up on it. Bill Seuss, a environmental scientist claims that a landowner was the one who discovered the leak on December the 5. If it weren't for the cold temperatures the oil would have gone further than the 6 miles it did and tainted the drinking water of the Little Mississippi. The entire pipeline has been shut down since then and the workers have recovered 37000 of oil.
This is relevant to our world today because if we can't even trust the equipment made to help us then there is nothing helping us. If it weren't for the landowner who reported the spill, and the freezing creek, the oil would have contaminated drinking water and possibly made a lot of people ill. Mistakes such as this one are becoming more and more frequent and somebody is going to get hurt if we don't start doing quality control.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/company-equipment-didnt-detect-north-dakota-oil-leak/ar-AAlt8L9?ocid=spartanntp
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