Pipeline Company Defends Safety Record Amid Oil Spill

The CEO of the company that owns the pipeline that leaked more than 100,000 gallons of crude oil along the Southern California coast apologized Saturday for the spill but defended the company's safety record. "We're please with our safety record," Plains All American CEO Greg Armstrong told NBC News' Hallie Jackson on his first one-on-on interview since the spill. Armstrong insists that "99.999 percent" of the billions of barrels of oil that his company delivers each year is transported safely and pipelines are the safest way to move oil. "We're striving for zero incidents, so while we're way up to the third or fourth decimal point before we ever have an incident, when it happens, it's obviously not good, we're not happy with it," he said.

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