Attention Bernie: 8/08/2015
RE: Rock-U-Pie Labor Day Festivals
New Pipeline Infrastructure Proposal and Plan Outline
We,(RINGS OF ALCYONE) are volunteering our performance services for events
organized to support your Presidential bid. Also have an idea we call "Rock-U-Pie"
you can read a narrative here:

http://www.reverbnation.com/page_object/page_object_blogs/artist_496389
We have some very pertinent new songs about issues you are speaking out on. I, now as a Band member and Songwriter, also worked many years as a Pipe Welder, Welding
Inspector, Manager, etc. I have a very specific and detailed plan I believe you may be
interested in, concerning the transportation of Oil, Natural Gas, and of all things;
Water too. I'm willing to convey the plan in detail to you or your surrogate's privately,
but it entails:
• The Govt. being the 'Direct Employer' and 'Entrepreneurial Entity' in replacing
the worn and thin walled cross-country oil and gas pipelines with Govt. built,
owned, operated, and maintained "Double Containment Pipelines" featuring
“Heavier Wall Thickness Anti Corrosive Primary Pipe" then buried in a
maintenance accessible Concrete Vault with "Leak Sensors" at regular intervals
in the "Containment(secondary) Pipe" Oil and Gas companies would be
required, by law to use the New Infrastructure and pay DOT(already oversees)
by volume, per distance. The rates should be determined on how clean or dirty
the commodity is and the particular company's environmental record.
I've witnessed first hand and many times in my 40 plus year construction career,
welding up, basically, a "Thin Metal Hose"(sometimes less than 1/4” wall thickness
when new and, meant to transport highly corrosive contents) and then pushing it into a 10' hole and burying it.
I know this plan doesn't seem very feasible in the current political climate, but
bringing it up publicly, may shake "Them" up. If it's new pipelines they want, let's do
it right and engineer them to last - AND NO 'Good Ole Boy' hiring practices either,
only local employee's hired through individual State Job Resource Centers and being
paid 'Davis-Bacon' wages.
One more thing, I have retired from the industry after years of feeling like a
hypocrite while actually witnessing the arrogant and cavalier mindset regarding the
Environment and 'Planetary Health Care' every day while at work. I'm sick of it and
so is OUR Planet.
Thanks for caring,
John