What is true is that when it comes to stopping the leak down below, the federal government does not possess superior technology to BP.
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The 4-by-6-foot color photograph of a wintry outdoor scene portrays a woman in a fur coat staring up at an apartment building where a water leak has cascaded down the cement facade and hardened into a frozen waterfall.
The difficulty of properly locking down a leak-focused site has been demonstrated in cringeworthy detail in attempts at similar projects by Al Jazeera and the Wall Street Journal.
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The Cormorant Alpha platform and its pipeline infrastructure were shut down after the leak was found in one of its legs during a routine inspection at 09:40.
Two years ago, residents in nearby Culver City evacuated their homes one night after a mysterious gas leak, prompting PXP to voluntarily shut down its operations until the county finishes an environmental review.
Thursday marked the second time in a month that the reactor has been shut down, following an August 22 leak in a heating system used to pressurize water.
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America has denounced the leak as endangering soldiers' lives, but played down the revelations.
The seaside plant between Los Angeles and San Diego has been shut down since January 2012, after a small radiation leak led to the discovery of unusual damage to hundreds of tubes that carry radioactive water.
It is still a top down company with executives who exude, or at least leak, a little too much of the old fashioned, hierarchical enterprise culture and where the staffers tread warily around the higher-ups.
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As for the other incidents that have beset the type over the past few months -- a fan shaft failure on an engine, an oil leak, a windshield crack -- all can safely be put down to teething problems.
Last month's leak led to a pipeline system servicing up to 27 oil fields being shut down.
Workers quickly fixed a minor leak in a cat cracking unit--where complex hydrocarbons in crude are broken down into smaller molecules.
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