Breaking News: Jet Fuel Spill in Suisun Near Controversial Wal-Mart

by Dan Bacher

Tue, Feb 24, 2009 5:39PM

A jet fuel pipeline that supplies mammoth Travis Air Force Base – and is near a controversial proposed Wal-Mart Supercenter – has apparently ruptured along Highway 12.

URGENT NEWS ADVISORY
Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2009, 4:30 p.m.
Contact: Brian Cain 707 718 7651

JET FUEL PIPELINE TO TRAVIS AFB
RUPTURES IN SUISUN NEAR MAJOR
HIGHWAY, AND PROPOSED WAL-MART

SUISUN – A jet fuel pipeline that supplies mammoth Travis Air Force Base – and is near a controversial proposed Wal-Mart Supercenter – has apparently ruptured along Highway 12.

State, federal and local agencies are still trying to discover the source of the leak, that was discovered this morning by AT&T subcontractors smelled the kerosene-based jet fuel.

A spill in April 2004 of diesel fuel in Suisun dumped more than 100,000 gallons into waterways.

The jet fuel pipeline's proximity to the proposed Wal-Mart has been just one of the public safety reasons citizens have opposed the development.

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