Keystone Pipeline leaks 210,000 gallons of oil in South Dakota
(CNN)A total of 210,000 gallons of oil leaked Thursday from the Keystone Pipeline in Marshall County, South Dakota, the pipeline's operator, TransCanada, said.
Crews shut down the pipeline Thursday morning and officials are investigating the cause of the leak, which occurred about 3 miles southeast of the town of Amherst, said Brian Walsh, a spokesman for the state's Department of Environment and Natural Resources.
This is the largest Keystone oil spill to date in South Dakota, Walsh said. The leak comes just days before Nebraska officials announce a decision on whether the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline, a sister project, can move forward......
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/16/us/keysto ... index.html
Cog wrote:It would be an even bigger whoops if this was done intentionally by the environ-terrorists.
ROCKMAN wrote:And to make sure folks aren't confused: the Keystone Pipeline leaked...not the Keystone XL Pipeline. Two separate distinct pipelines. How? Time will tell. Maybe bad pipe or bad welds. Or maybe a screw up at the pumping station and over pressured a section. Enviroterrorists? Maybe but I doubt it.
"The Nebraska Public Service Commission needs to take a close look at this spill," said Rachel Rye Butler of Greenpeace. "A permit approval allowing Canadian oil company TransCanada to build Keystone XL is a thumbs-up to likely spills in the future."
Cog wrote:There have been oil spills by train that were much more severe than this one. Pipelines are the most environmentally sound way to transport oil.
GHung wrote:Cog wrote:There have been oil spills by train that were much more severe than this one. Pipelines are the most environmentally sound way to transport oil.
The people opposing Keystone don't care.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Nebraska approves path for controversial Keystone XL pipeline
(CNN)Nebraska officials voted Monday to allow the Keystone XL pipeline to cross the state, a key step toward the completion of the Keystone Pipeline network.
The state's Public Service Commission voted 3-2 in favor of the expansion pipeline, days after the existing Keystone Pipeline spilled 210,000 gallons of oil in South .....
....The commission received a route approval application from TransCanada for the pipeline in February and has been evaluating the project in a process that included public hearings and comments.....
....Many supporters of the pipeline expansion say it'd be an economic boon. In 2015, the State Department said the project would create about 42,000 jobs directly and indirectly, including about 3,900 construction jobs.
It would also provide about $2 billion in economic benefits, the State Department review said. ....
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/20/us/nebras ... index.html
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
ROCKMAN wrote:Ghung - I'm a tad surprised about the vote. And more then a little skeptical about the 42,000 temp jobs. They must be estimating a lot of indirect jobs. I've seen pipelines laid first hand and typically not more then a few hundreds hands. Maybe they anticipate many multiple sections under construction at once. But then I don't see it taking two years if that's the case. And $2 BILLION in benefit to the state? I would like to see that number broken down.
ROCKMAN wrote:"...as well as employee spending on lodging, food, entertainment, health care, etc". With the exception of lodging those employees would be spending those monies if they weren't working on the pipeline. And I suspect mobile man-camps will be built to house them. You can't have welders driving 6 to 8 hrs round trip every day to a motel.
I still haven't seen proof that these estimates are not inflated. Perhaps grossly so.
jawagord wrote:ROCKMAN wrote:"...as well as employee spending on lodging, food, entertainment, health care, etc". With the exception of lodging those employees would be spending those monies if they weren't working on the pipeline. And I suspect mobile man-camps will be built to house them. You can't have welders driving 6 to 8 hrs round trip every day to a motel.
I still haven't seen proof that these estimates are not inflated. Perhaps grossly so.
Does it really matter if the number of jobs is 10,000 or 50,000? It's a private company willing to spend billions of dollars in the US and Canada to create infrastructure which will operate for 50-60 years, paying taxes and land fees .....
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