You have, again, several leaks coming from a structure and a pipe 5, 000 feet below the surface.

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Multistage (often 15 to 20 or more stages) hydraulic fracturing with the subsurface lateral pipe often running 5, 000 feet or more is the business norm now.

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Since then, at least 5, 000 barrels of oil per day have erupted from the broken well pipe which is 5, 000 feet under water, 40 miles off the coast of Louisiana.

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When the drill unit sank on Thursday, we immediately and intensely investigated by remotely operated vehicles the entire 5, 000 feet of pipe that's on the floor of the ocean.

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Subsidies make up part of the shortfall: water is sold for 5% of what it costs to pipe it, petrol at 11 cents a litre, and 40% of Libyans don't bother to pay for their state-supplied electricity at all.

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If a government-mandated market for pollution offsets ever materializes, the 26-inch pipe hauling away carbon would be able to handle the plant's waste gas and another 5 million tons from other sources in New Jersey.

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