U of S prof. says Husky pipeline burst not a one-time event
Nov 19, 2016 | 10:20 AM
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After Husky Energy called their oil pipeline failure a “one-time event,” a University of Saskatchewan geologist says similar conditions are likely.
Professor Grant Ferguson, who has conducted numerous riverbank movement studies on the North Saskatchewan River, said slope failures, which allegedly caused the incident, could happen again.
“I wouldn’t want to bet money on slope failures to not happen again. It’s going to happen. I just don’t know when,” he said.
The Husky Energy report, released Thursday, said their pipeline bust due to a “sudden, one-time event in a section of the pipe that had buckled due to the force of ground movement” and was not the result of any material defect, corrosion or deficiency in the pipe itself.
