Keystone pipeline spills more than 350,000 gallons of oil in North Dakota

[joaquinmiller]

Oh here's a big surprise.
The Keystone pipeline has spilled hundreds of thousands of gallons of crude oil into North Dakota this week, The New York Times reports.

The pipeline has leaked roughly 383,000 gallons of crude oil, impacting an estimated half-acre of wetland, according to state environmental regulators.
Keystone pipeline spills more than 350,000 gallons of oil in North Dakota

A whole half acre
How will the nation ever recover

Yes, we get 160,000 TONS of natural oil seep a year!! Somehow we survive. (see m former post for link, etc.)

Natural oil seep is nothing like the diluted bitumen (dilbit) pumped thru the Keystone. It's a toxic sludge that has to be injected with liquefied natural gas to thin it sufficiently to flow through the pipeline. It's easily contained within 1/2 acre because it doesn't flow without the boosting pump stations of a pipeline. It does, however, have a specific gravity much higher than crude oil. 383,000 gallons on 1/2 acre is 17+ gallons/sf. It won't just sit there - it will seep into the ground. Crude is lighter than water, dilbit is not, increasing the danger to any water table it may contact, or transit top-to-bottom, in the event of a leak. Pipelines are largely-safe, with sensors and excess-flow valves to prevent large leaks, but they are susceptible to attack and accidents. It's borderline insane to transport dilbit across the US and over water tables.

You mean it will soak back into the ground in which it came from?

The ground from which it came is in northern Alberta, where much of it was surface-mined using heavy equipment. At that point, it was nowhere near US aquifers.

Diluted bitumen is not conventional crude oil, and the existing clean-up procedures for lighter-than-water crude don't apply, where dilbit and water come into contact. That said, feel free to add a pinch to drinking water in your own home, if you feel the need for lubrication.

 

[the other mike]

At least they have a chance of being cleaned up.
Better than being burned into a crisp with solar. View attachment 287794
Or mutilated by wind turbines
View attachment 287795

Or everyone's favorite - the Fukushima baby.

 

[karpenter]

Could You Cite The Image Of The Five Legged Infant
I'm Not Finding It Listed With Fukushima Birth Defects

 

[the other mike]

Could You Cite The Image Of The Five Legged Infant
I'm Not Finding It Listed With Fukushima Birth Defects

Can't remember where I found that one....it was just a random image search on bing....like this;

fukushima deformed babies images - Bing images

fukushima baby deformities images - Bing images

Da New Sees World Report via Daniyel: Fukushima: World's Greatest Public Health Hazard yet Witnessed...Until Zechariah's Thermonuclear War is UN-leashed!!!

 

[karpenter]

Can You Show Any Of These Images To Be Genuine
Or Source Them To A Publisher
Like I Said
I'm Not Seeing Anything Close To This On Fukushima Birth Defect Sites
Just Like Your Bullshit Dodge With The Pelican

Top Picture Link:
This is the latest anonymous message from 2017. You must watch this! Important events are going to happen this year. Will 2017 be the year of the change? Everybody has to see this to find out!

Anonymous And Unsourced

 

[the other mike]

Can You Show Any Of These Images To Be Genuine
Or Source Them To A Publisher
Like I Said
I'm Not Seeing Anything Close To This On Fukushima Birth Defect Sites
Just Like Your Bullshit Dodge With The Pelican

I don't 'dodge' anything except trolls like you.
Do your own homework Morris.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

A whole half acre
How will the nation ever recover

Well,you see, genius, it is not the first spill amd wont be the last.

But good for you for rooting for private oil companies being able to sell oil to foreigners.

 

[karpenter]

I don't 'dodge' anything except trolls like you.
Do your own homework, Morris

I Just Did On Your Top Link
Fukushima – Anti Nuclear campaigner, Dr Helen Caldicott tells it like it is!
Result Is A Video With This:

This is the latest anonymous message from 2017. You must watch this! Important events are going to happen this year. Will 2017 be the year of the change? Everybody has to see this to find out!

>>> Anonymous And Unsourced
The Video Has Been Removed
What It Has Is A Dead Screen Shot

You've Heard Of PhotoShop, Right ??
Or Those Magical Tumor Removals From The Philippines

 

[the other mike]

What Is the Keystone Pipeline?

Complicating matters, leaks can be difficult to detect. And when tar sands oil does spill, it’s highly volatile—posing an elevated risk of explosion—and more difficult to clean up than conventional crude. People and wildlife coming into contact with tar sands oil are exposed to toxic chemicals, and rivers and wetland environments are at particular risk from a spill. “It immediately sinks to the bottom” of the waterway, says NRDC staff attorney Kim Ong, “and there is, to date, no known way of cleaning up this oil.” (For evidence, recall the 2010 tar sands oil spill in Kalamazoo, Michigan, a disaster that cost Enbridge more than a billion dollars in cleanup fees and took six years to settle in court.) Keystone XL would cross agriculturally important and environmentally sensitive areas, including more than 1,000 rivers, streams, aquifers and water bodies. One is Nebraska’s Ogallala Aquifer, which provides drinking water for millions as well as 30 percent of America’s irrigation water. A spill would be devastating to the farms, ranches, and communities that depend on these crucial ecosystems.

 

[Leo123]

Oh here's a big surprise.
The Keystone pipeline has spilled hundreds of thousands of gallons of crude oil into North Dakota this week, The New York Times reports.

The pipeline has leaked roughly 383,000 gallons of crude oil, impacting an estimated half-acre of wetland, according to state environmental regulators.
Keystone pipeline spills more than 350,000 gallons of oil in North Dakota

A whole half acre
How will the nation ever recover

Yes, we get 160,000 TONS of natural oil seep a year!! Somehow we survive. (see m former post for link, etc.)

Natural oil seep is nothing like the diluted bitumen (dilbit) pumped thru the Keystone. It's a toxic sludge that has to be injected with liquefied natural gas to thin it sufficiently to flow through the pipeline. It's easily contained within 1/2 acre because it doesn't flow without the boosting pump stations of a pipeline. It does, however, have a specific gravity much higher than crude oil. 383,000 gallons on 1/2 acre is 17+ gallons/sf. It won't just sit there - it will seep into the ground. Crude is lighter than water, dilbit is not, increasing the danger to any water table it may contact, or transit top-to-bottom, in the event of a leak. Pipelines are largely-safe, with sensors and excess-flow valves to prevent large leaks, but they are susceptible to attack and accidents. It's borderline insane to transport dilbit across the US and over water tables.

The link I gave in my former post says oil seeps behave the same as pipeline leaks.

 

[the other mike]

The same fossil fuel interests pushing the Keystone pipeline have been cutting, not creating, jobs: Despite generating $546 billion in profits between 2005 and 2010, ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, and BP reduced their U.S. workforce by 11,200 employees over that period.

5 Reasons Why the Keystone Pipeline is Bad for the Economy | Labor Network for Sustainability

https://vittana.org/17-important-keystone-pipeline-pros-and-cons

 

[the other mike]

At least they have a chance of being cleaned up.
Better than being burned into a crisp with solar. View attachment 287794
Or mutilated by wind turbines
View attachment 287795

Or everyone's favorite - the Fukushima baby.

It's probably a Chernobyl baby.....Fukushima was still less than 10 years ago and the effects will unfold for thousands of years.

 

[Leo123]

The same fossil fuel interests pushing the Keystone pipeline have been cutting, not creating, jobs: Despite generating $546 billion in profits between 2005 and 2010, ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, and BP reduced their U.S. workforce by 11,200 employees over that period.

5 Reasons Why the Keystone Pipeline is Bad for the Economy | Labor Network for Sustainability

https://vittana.org/17-important-keystone-pipeline-pros-and-cons

"Keystone Pipeline Spill Response deemed a Success"

"In early December, a section of the Keystone Pipeline leaked 210,000 gallons of oil near the South Dakota City of Amherst. Representatives of Trans-Canada Pipeline, the owner of the pipeline, deemed the detection of the leak and prompt spill response as an example of its exemplary contingency measures that are in place to detect and respond to such incidents."

Keystone Pipeline Spill Response deemed a Success – HazMat Management

So despite all the environmentalist-activist hand wringing the leak was fixed and cleaned up quickly.

 

[depotoo]

The same fossil fuel interests pushing the Keystone pipeline have been cutting, not creating, jobs: Despite generating $546 billion in profits between 2005 and 2010, ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, and BP reduced their U.S. workforce by 11,200 employees over that period.

5 Reasons Why the Keystone Pipeline is Bad for the Economy | Labor Network for Sustainability

https://vittana.org/17-important-keystone-pipeline-pros-and-cons

So, you’d rather run it by train or tanker? Because it will be run, whether you like it or not.

 

[the other mike]

2 years ago.....

 

[Leo123]

It's probably a Chernobyl baby.....Fukushima was still less than 10 years ago and the effects will unfold for thousands of years.

Uh, probably not. It is most likely a rare mutation not caused by anything other than tragic unknown circumstances. Using such a tragedy to promote a radical political POV is what some do to try to convince others to join their train-wreck ideology.

 

[the other mike]

It is most likely a rare mutation not caused by anything other than tragic unknown circumstances.

The kid's parents ate too much octopus out of Fukushima bay probably.

 

[karpenter]

It's probably a Chernobyl baby......

It's Probably A Fake
Like The Alien Autopsy

And The Wildlife Around Chernobyl
Seem To Be Birthing Normally
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(15)00988-4?_returnURL=http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0960982215009884?showall=true

Wildlife thriving around Chernobyl nuclear plant despite radiation

 

[the other mike]

It's probably a Chernobyl baby......

It's Probably A Fake
Like The Alien Autopsy

Or human pig clones.

 

[karpenter]

Or human pig clones.