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The Keystone pipeline just spilled another 210000 gallons of oil
Sometime before 6 a.m. local time, operators noticed that pressure had dropped in a pipeline capable of pumping 590,000 barrels of crude oil products every day from Canada down to the Gulf Coast.
The oil was likely diluted bitumen, or dilbit, a mixture of tarry oil and thinning agents that let the commodity flow through the pipe. But the drop in pressure indicated that instead of heading through on its appointed course, the oil was out of the pipe and spreading through the ground near Amherst, South Dakota, creating a large stain on the browning fall landscape.
In a statement, pipeline operator TransCanada says that “the section of pipe along a right-of-way approximately 35 miles (56 kilometres) south of the Ludden pump station in Marshall County, South Dakota was completely isolated within 15 minutes and emergency response procedures were activated.”
Early estimates put the total spilled at 5,000 barrels, or 210,000 gallons of dilbit seeping through the landscape.
NPR reports that the South Dakota Department of Environment and Natural Resources was not informed of the leak until about 10:30 am local time, several hours after the incident.
The pipeline is now shut down between Alberta, Canada and locations in Oklahoma and Illinois. The affected land is reportedly used for grazing livestock.
How will people try to clean it up?
CNN reports that there is no immediate indication that any waterways, water supplies, or wildlife have been affected. “It is a below-ground pipeline, but some oil has surfaced above ground to the grass,” South Dakota Department of Environment and Natural Resources spokesman Brian Walsh told CNN “It will be a few days until they can excavate and get in borings to see if there is groundwater contamination.” Borings are deep holes that allow geologists to look at what’s going on underground.
Cleaning up an oil spill on land can involve manually or mechanically excavating the area, depending on the type of soil and location of the spill. Sometimes oil might be flushed out, other times it might be wiped or sponged up, vacuumed, and otherwise removed. The approach will depend on the type of soil, the sensitivity of the area, and how closely humans or wildlife might interact with the spill.
Has this happened before?
In its first year of operation, the Keystone pipeline leaked 12 times, with leaks that ranged from 2 gallons to 21,000 gallons. Last April, a leak on the pipeline released 16,800 gallons of dilbit.
Then in 2013, a spill of 134,000 gallons of dilbit in Mayflower, Arkansas caused an estimated $57.5 million in property damage when it spilled in a suburban area.
A more severe incident occurred in 2010 in Michigan when a pipeline leaked a million gallons of oil into the Kalamazoo river, the largest inland oil spill in the United States.
Dilbit is particularly problematic in water. In the ground, bitumen is thick and heavy, more like a solid than an oily liquid. It’s extracted from sandy deposits in Canada by either mining or heating the oil underground until it can be pumped to the surface. It flows through pipes with the help of chemicals that thin it out. But when exposed to the environment, those components can separate, allowing volatile chemicals to evaporate, leaving a sticky, heavy sludge that sinks in water instead of floating in a slick like other forms of oil. As it weathers, the oil gets stickier, adhering to its surroundings, and becomes more difficult to clean up over time.
Decisions, Decisions
This Keystone pipeline is not the same as the Keystone XL pipeline, but it is related. Keystone XL is a proposed 1,179 mile-long pipeline that would connect oil fields in canada containing bitumen-rich ‘tar sands’ with the already-existing Keystone pipeline. Keystone XL is particularly controversial as it crossed the Ogallala aquifer in Nebraska, a valuable source of fresh water.
A decision on whether or not the Keystone XL pipeline will be allowed to proceed through Nebraska is expected next week.
26 Comments on "The Keystone pipeline just spilled another 210000 gallons of oil"
Ghung on Sat, 18th Nov 2017 8:38 am
If the XL gets approved and built, maybe they’ll get a different contractor to build it? Seems the folks who built the Keystone need a bit more oversight, eh?
Apneaman on Sat, 18th Nov 2017 11:53 am
Former state seismologist testifies officials coerced him to alter research on induced quakes
“Oklahoma’s former lead seismologist has testified he was pressured by officials at the University of Oklahoma to suppress findings linking earthquakes with fracking wastewater disposal.”
“Holland said his decision to leave OU and the Oklahoma Geologic Survey in 2015 was a direct result of pressure from his employers.”
http://www.normantranscript.com/news/former-state-seismologist-testifies-officials-coerced-him-to-alter-research/article_d8383864-cb20-11e7-8206-2bc32ae1169a.html
Go Speed Racer on Sat, 18th Nov 2017 12:01 pm
Oil seeping thru the grass?
Just light a match and problem solved.
Deluxe is put some old La-Z-Boy recliners
in the center of the puddle, before lighting.
But nooooo the government will turn it
into a 20 million dollar problem. To wasfe
your tax payments.
Taxes going down on the rich, going up
on those making less than $50,000 a year.
Link:
https://www.google.com/search?q=what+am+i+poor&prmd=ivn&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwir1ufu2cjXAhVEw2MKHTcGBO8Q_AUIESgA&biw=320&bih=454&dpr=2#imgrc=T2l0v6c9odY8PM:
Sissyfuss on Sat, 18th Nov 2017 12:55 pm
See Cloggednoggen, Chief Seattle was right.
Sissyfuss on Sat, 18th Nov 2017 12:58 pm
Like Clogs Depends, pipelines always leak.
rockman on Sat, 18th Nov 2017 1:05 pm
“Keystone XL is a proposed 1,179 mile-long pipeline that would connect…with the already-existing Keystone pipeline.” No it won’t connect with the Keystone Pipeline. It will APPEAR TO CONNECT with the existing southern leg of the Keystone XL Pipeline. From a practical point of view it will terminate at the Cushing, OK, terminal. The southern leg of Keystone XL from Cushing to Gulf Coast refineries was put into service sometime ago. It was this section and the reversal of the Seaway Pipeline that eliminated the chokepoint at Cushing and allowed the increased import of a record volume of Canadian oil. At this point in time with the existing excess pipeline capacity and the completion of the Dakota Access Pipe Line there no need for the northern leg of KXL.
Cloggie on Sat, 18th Nov 2017 1:10 pm
Uhuh, the good Chief himself or his libtard ghostwriter?
I keep recommending a rapid renewable energy transition. No need for the ramblings of an Indian-turned-Catholic
Google search tip: “the myth of chief seattle”
rockman on Sat, 18th Nov 2017 1:11 pm
Racer – “But nooooo the government will turn it into a 20 million dollar problem. To waste
your tax payments” Why do you think one dollar of tax payer money will be spent for the clean up? The pipeline company will pay for all costs as well as any fines the govt might impose.
Cloggie on Sat, 18th Nov 2017 1:16 pm
@Sissyfuss
Children want to believe in Sinterklaas (“Santaclaus”), “adults” in Chief Seattle:
http://www.humanecologyreview.org/pastissues/her71/71abruzzi.pdf
Apneaman on Sat, 18th Nov 2017 1:17 pm
Fuck off rockman
“Now that a judge has approved BP’s $20 billion settlement over the 2010 gulf oil spill, it is appropriate to look at the overall societal costs, as well as the bottom line to BP. And at tax time, people understandably think about their own taxes, too. The government struck a $20 billion settlement with BP, which is a big number. Yet BP should be able to deduct the vast majority, a whopping $15.3 billion, on its U.S. tax return. That means American taxpayers are contributing quite a lot to this settlement, whether they know it or not.”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2016/04/06/in-bps-final-20-billion-gulf-settlement-u-s-taxpayers-subsidize-15-3-billion/#1fadc74a36b2
rockman why don’t you get in your chair and wheel yourself off a cliff you diseased gimp lying sack of pus.
Anonymouse1 on Sat, 18th Nov 2017 2:21 pm
‘the narrativeman’ (aka deflectorman),is so full of oil, I mean shit it is not even funny anymore. Not that your endless dissembling ever was narrativeman.
No one gives a flying fuck if you think, or dont think, a particular segment of XL is ‘unnecessary’ or not. Who are you trying to convince? ‘Someone’ wanted to build it, and spend a lot of money of resources make it a reality. No one cares what you think of the utility of small subsets of that systems. Its immaterial-get it?
‘Taxpayers’ DO end up paying for the uS oil cartels recklessness and negligence narrativeman. Just like they pay for the wars overseas they sponsor, along with all the other direct and indirect damage uS oil does on an on-going basis. It’s a feature of the system, not a bug, as you well know. Any ‘fines’ the ‘government’ (might) impose, are basically cosmetic. And oil corps paying(lol) for their spills?
Well, that is what subsidies are for.
Ap make a good suggestion, consider it would you? Take cloggen-kike with you.
Cloggie on Sat, 18th Nov 2017 3:23 pm
“Ap make a good suggestion, consider it would you? Take cloggen-kike with you.”
Anonymouse1, I know you are not the brightest bulb in the christmas tree, but try to keep it in your thick skull: apneaman is the “kike” here and I am the Hollywood Natzie. Can you remember that?
Sissyfuss on Sat, 18th Nov 2017 4:46 pm
Claudenfreunde, there weren’t ghostwriters for all the poetry and wisdom coming from the warriors of our past. You cannot relate or identify with the majesty of their writings, only denigrate them with your conspiratorial misleading rants. You’re an artless old hag but that’s what gets from an environmental dead zone.
.5mt on Sat, 18th Nov 2017 4:51 pm
Collegial group as usual.
8 nutz and the Rockman.
Guess who I believe?
BTW some of you fellas are getting borderline psycho.
Anonymous on Sat, 18th Nov 2017 4:56 pm
A. Contained on site.
B. Love how the article uses gallons instead of barrels to make the number more dramatic.
Cloggie on Sat, 18th Nov 2017 5:20 pm
Claudenfreunde, there weren’t ghostwriters for all the poetry and wisdom coming from the warriors of our past. You cannot relate or identify with the majesty of their writings, only denigrate them with your conspiratorial misleading rants. You’re an artless old hag but that’s what gets from an environmental dead zone.
You are an intellectual midget, who wants that all the American myths were true, but deep in your heart you know they aren’t. Your shallow kind always avoids in depth discussions and simply dismiss criticism and alternative explanations as “conspiracies”, just to ensure that your soap bubbles won’t burst. America: one big self-reference, like “Coca-Cola, the best there is”. American official history writing is merely American product placement, one big add. The under classes of Europe, the “huddled masses”, a hand with vegetable seeds, a bible and a note of the address of a distant acquaintance. An atomized people that never was able to generate an elite that could guarantee true independence, easy meat for the Apneaman types who exploited you for their chosenite world conquest dreams for a century.
You people are way beyond expiration date and currently being set up for the American version of the Soviet Gulag, again run by said Apneaman types.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt2PF4WefTI
You will have to go through endless misery and the best thing that can happen to you is become again what you always were: European under classes who thought they were exceptional but eventually became sadder and wiser.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC-Cqkq6zWc
Now “enjoy” what you did to others, Karma is a bitch. Pray that perhaps we pick you up from the ruble and you can wipe that shallow American identity from your face as a cheap make-up.
Cloggie on Sat, 18th Nov 2017 5:31 pm
Collegial group as usual. 8 nutz and the Rockman. Guess who I believe? BTW some of you fellas are getting borderline psycho.
rockman why don’t you get in your chair and wheel yourself off a cliff you diseased gimp lying sack of pus.
For white Christians, secular or not, it is almost impossible to fathom the depth of cruelty the Apneaman types will exercise on you, once they have you completely under their control, like happened to the Russians after 1917. If you can stomach it, here the film The Czekist…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RQVSHfuPCQ
…to have a sneak preview what the Apneaman
tribe has in store for you, when he will let his Anonymouse1 BLM thugs or Antifa scum like “Mastermind” lose on you.
Got the picture?
Makati1 on Sat, 18th Nov 2017 5:32 pm
Cloggie, I’m more worried that the US insanity will lead to nukes actually being exchanged. The rest of the world can survive a US crash and burn, but not radiation sickness and global winter.
Anonymouse1 on Sat, 18th Nov 2017 6:08 pm
Remember cloggen-kike, post count to ZERO. Don’t wait for monday clogglestein.
IoW, FOaD ya fraud.
deadlykillerbeaz on Sat, 18th Nov 2017 6:34 pm
210,000 gallons would occupy a volume of 28,071 cubic feet, or an area 280 feet by 100 feet one foot deep.
Remediate the oil-soaked soil, repair the pipeline, go back to pumping the oil through the pipeline.
Not much more can be done, got to have enough oil everyday.
Civilization won’t stop because some oil spilled.
Sissyfuss on Sat, 18th Nov 2017 8:14 pm
You’re hyping a movie? That’s not revolting, it’s fake like much of your hype, Clogaganda. And the people I hold in esteem were not European plunderers, they evolved in the magnificence of a land of plenty. The white and brown invaders rejected their culture and enslaved them or extinguished them. And the zero sum game that your egomaniacal ancestors have wrought is environmental desecration and eventual extinction. Turn from the dark spirit Clucifer before it’s too la,,,,,what? Oh, never mind, you’re toast.
rockman on Sat, 18th Nov 2017 9:20 pm
.5 – You should cut them some slack. When one lacks the facts to support a position all that’s left is to try to suck others into a childish personality battle. They are working with the only tools they have available. As I said it best just to take it as I do: comic relief.
And while I appreciate your support since I tend to only post documented facts folks can just check the links I attach and satisfy themselves. Such as the links I’ve posted many times showing the two separate and distinct routes of the K and KXL pipelines.
Cloggie on Sun, 19th Nov 2017 3:24 am
You’re hyping a movie? That’s not revolting, it’s fake like much of your hype, Clogaganda.
You want to deny the existence of huge purges where millions perished, comrade Siss? Butt hurt much? Why don’t you start a new USA Communist Party, together with comrade Ghung? He studied in the USSR in the seventies, even after all that was known about the horrors of that ghastly system.
Cloggie on Sun, 19th Nov 2017 3:28 am
Remember cloggen-kike, post count to ZERO. Don’t wait for monday clogglestein.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h81Ojd3d2rY
Don’t keep your hopes too high. I won’t be posting in the morning or during the day, but a bedtime story? You never know.lol Think Theedrich, every now and then a post. Or not.
Apneaman on Mon, 20th Nov 2017 8:27 pm
Swollen Rex Tillerson Spotted Rushing To Place Mouth Over Leaks Spouting In Keystone Pipeline – Photo
https://politics.theonion.com/swollen-rex-tillerson-spotted-rushing-to-place-mouth-ov-1820557703
Apneaman on Mon, 20th Nov 2017 8:29 pm
The Unexpected Ways Fracking Affects Air Pollution
Fracking has led to a large increase of hydrocarbon emissions in rural areas, reversing some regional air trends.
“Video taken with an infrared camera shows gases leaking from storage tanks, valves and other equipment used by the oil and gas industry.”
http://therevelator.org/fracking-air-pollution-shale/