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News clipping / article digest
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Summary
The document is a news digest containing two articles. The first discusses the boom in U.S. oil transportation, highlighting the shift from pipelines to rail and barge, regulatory challenges in Washington state, and safety concerns following the Lac-Mégantic rail disaster in Quebec. The second article summarizes a scientific study published in Nature regarding the vulnerability of the U.S. electrical grid. The document bears a House Oversight Bates stamp, suggesting it was part of a production related to an investigation.
People (5)
| Name | Role | Context |
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| Jennifer Stastny | Executive Director |
Port of Victoria; comments on the rapid growth of crude movement via canal.
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| Curt Hart | Spokesman |
Washington State Department of Ecology; discusses lack of regulatory power over rail operators.
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| Steve Kean | President and COO |
Kinder Morgan Inc.; comments on pipeline projects and energy economy.
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| Jeff Tollefson | Author |
Author of the article 'U.S. Electrical Grid on the Edge of Failure' in Nature.
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| Shlomo Havlin | Study Co-author / Physicist |
Bar-Ilan University; conducted study on spatial networks and grid stability.
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Locations (10)
Relationships (1)
Tollefson authored the article citing Havlin's study.
Key Quotes (3)
"It's like putting your 5-year-old to bed one night and he wakes up the next morning as a 16-year-old, with the appetite and demands of a 16-year-old"Source
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"This has got to be one of the best things that has happened in our economy in the past 10 years. It is better than the iPad."Source
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"Facebook can lose a few users and remain a perfectly stable network, but where the national grid is concerned simple geography dictates that it is always just a few transmission lines from collapse."Source
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