Did you even read the Tweet? It was directed at its source claiming it to be a BS story.
This was supposed to be your bread, baker.
DOE has extensive regs for gasoline pipelines. Look em up.
You were supposed to bake the evidence!
But yeah, the Tweet is off a bit factually but the spirit is correct. It's DOT, not DOE, in charge of pipelines, and PHMSA is the subagency of DOT who manages them.
DOT is the primary regulator of the operation of both oil and natural gas pipelines pursuant to two statutes: the Hazardous Liquid Pipeline Safety Act of 1979 and the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 1978 (both codified at 49 U.S.C. Chapter 601). Within DOT, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), through the Office of Pipeline Safety (OPS), is responsible for establishing and enforcing proper design, construction, operation, maintenance, testing and inspection standards for both oil and natural gas pipelines. These regulations are published in the Code of Federal Regulations at 49 C.F.R. Parts 190-199
Basically, these pipelines should definitely have analog controls in case the digital ones go down, according to regulations.
Many factory boiler rooms are controlled by computers. There are still analog controls and the ability to stop water from flowing into a boiler that's too hot (dry fired state) to prevent explosions like this.
In other words, there's no reason this pipeline had to be shut down, even with the ransomware, unless PHMSA shut it down for their investigation.
For the record, PHMSA hasn't done a thing publicly since January 11, 2021, and couldn't even be bothered to issue a press release in response to the pipeline attack...
Did you even read the Tweet? It was directed at its source claiming it to be a BS story.
This was supposed to be your bread, baker.
You were supposed to bake the evidence!
But yeah, the Tweet is off a bit factually but the spirit is correct. It's DOT, not DOE, in charge of pipelines, and PHMSA is the subagency of DOT who manages them.
DOT is the primary regulator of the operation of both oil and natural gas pipelines pursuant to two statutes: the Hazardous Liquid Pipeline Safety Act of 1979 and the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 1978 (both codified at 49 U.S.C. Chapter 601). Within DOT, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), through the Office of Pipeline Safety (OPS), is responsible for establishing and enforcing proper design, construction, operation, maintenance, testing and inspection standards for both oil and natural gas pipelines. These regulations are published in the Code of Federal Regulations at 49 C.F.R. Parts 190-199
https://www.phmsa.dot.gov/regulations
Basically, these pipelines should definitely have analog controls in case the digital ones go down, according to regulations.
Many factory boiler rooms are controlled by computers. There are still analog controls and the ability to stop water from flowing into a boiler that's too hot (dry fired state) to prevent explosions like this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c-wOGOr0io
In other words, there's no reason this pipeline had to be shut down, even with the ransomware, unless PHMSA shut it down for their investigation.
For the record, PHMSA hasn't done a thing publicly since January 11, 2021, and couldn't even be bothered to issue a press release in response to the pipeline attack...
https://www.phmsa.dot.gov/newsroom
Checked your last link and found something interdasting. They posted on January 12.
“ U.S. Department of Transportation Announces Availability of More Than $17 Million for Hazardous Materials and Pipeline Safety Efforts”
There’s that damn number again.
I'm not OP, fren.