False valve, unarmed and short pipes. The inauguration of the President Néstor Kirchner gas pipeline not only was it addressed as one of the most important works of the democratic return, but it was surrounded by a controversy with fake news or false news of which even recognized characters echoed.
The pipeline that transportation gas dead cow from Tratayén in Neuquén to Salliqueló in the province of Buenos Aires it measures 573 kilometers.
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And the size was one of the axes questioned by those who shared false news, who took a photo of the opening of the valve in which the president participated on Sunday Alberto Fernandez, the vice president Cristina Kirchner and the Minister of Economy, sergio masa, where you can see a pipe that ends on the right side, that is, it does not extend or bury itself, it only has a stop.
This theory was echoed by journalists such as horace cabak and references opponents of Together for Changewho will also take advantage of the occasion in the middle of the public debate who starred Cristina Kirchner and former President Mauricio Macri by the terms of the work. And how the magnitude of the false theory and the speculations grew over the hours, the retweets and the comments, the authorities came out to explain the photo.
The official explanation
From the account of Argentine energythe state company run by Augustine Gerez, said that “the valve that was opened at the inauguration connects the pipeline with the scraper receiving trap.” This is “a mandatory installation kit thate is used for cleaning and periodic internal inspection. The trap is in the progressive end of the gas pipeline”.
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The agency also explains that “high-pressure transportation pipelines are buried in most of their trace, with aerial facilities called surface facilities.” They then published the aerial photo of the place where the valve was opened and indicated: “You can see the interconnection of the President Néstor Kirchner Gas Pipeline with the NEUBA II, which is part of the existing natural gas transportation system. Both pipelines are buriedas well as the interconnection pipe that links them”.
But the clarity of the explanation did not meet.
The one who insisted once again was Cabak, a well-known journalist aligned with the opposition. After casting doubts on the photo of the valve that the main authorities of the country opened from a place of information, he continued with a video. The piece is from the same place: a disassembled pipe is seen, workers working on the nuts of one of the unions and a man saying that they are disarming everything, that in reality it is a farce.
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Cabak’s suspicion was ironically directed at a kirchnerista journalist known for spotting fake news.
Mauro Brissio He wrote that the main thing before publishing is to check the information and told him that in order to respond, he contacted sources from Energía Argentina, who replied that the pipe that can be seen disassembled is the scraper’s trap and that “its use will be required for internal inspection only after 5 years of its implementation”.
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