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The Breaking Point: The Alaskan Pipeline Spills
At the turn of the millennium, the "Golden Age" of Alaskan oil was met with a harsh reality: infrastructure isn't immortal. The Breaking Point is a deep-dive investigative series into the two pivotal events that shook the North Slope and forced a global reckoning with how we maintain the world’s most dangerous machines.
What you will hear in this episode:
The 2001 Sabotage (The "Bullet Hole" Leak): In October 2001, a single high-powered rifle shot pierced the pipeline near Livengood, sparking a 285,000-gallon crisis. We explore the bizarre story of Daniel Lewis, the massive pressure-plugging…
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