Crews Get Temporary Fix on Ruptured Pipeline
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From Times Wire Reports
Crews installed a clamp over a bullet hole in the trans-Alaska pipeline, finally stopping a leak that over three days spewed 285,600 gallons of oil onto the wilderness 75 miles north of Fairbanks.
A man who had been drinking shot the pipeline with a hunting rifle in what the governor called “a harebrained act of violence.” The pipeline, which carries about 17% of the nation’s oil production, had to be shut down.
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