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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, April 16, 1990                   TAG: 9004160169
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: A5   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: FREDERICKSBURG                                LENGTH: Short

ACTIVIST SAYS OIL SPILL COULD HAPPEN AGAIN

The Orange County pipeline rupture that contaminated water supplies for hundreds of thousands of people last year could easily happen again, a consumer advocate said.

Frederic Lang, a pipeline expert with Ralph Nader's consumer group Public Citizen, blames accidents like the December's Colonial Pipeline rupture on a cozy relationship between governments and the oil industry.

"The people [in Fredericksburg] should not believe that someone else is watching out for their safety," said Lang, a former member of a federal panel on pipeline safety. "No one has the power and no one has the regulations by which to do it."

Lang contended safety laws are enforced no more strictly than the oil industry wants them to be. - Associated Press 


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