tinydancer
Diamond Member
You can't tell the difference between an oil pipeline and a gas line? Who wants this in their neighborhood? Everyone. This is a gas line. Everyone with a gas kitchen stove, heater, hot water heater has gas lines. There are millions of them.Why are Republicans in Congress so determined to get approval on the Keystone Pipeline....it's not like it is going to create a lot of jobs, and there are so many risks involved.....this one is the 4th major mishap at a US pipeline just this month. Don't Republicans care anything at all about our environment?
Who wants this in their neighborhood?
Who would have thought that pipelines built by for-profit companies would make them in any but the safest and most secure manner?
A gas pipeline in Brooke County, West Virginia exploded into a ball of flames on Monday morning, marking the fourth major mishap at a U.S. pipeline this month.
No one was hurt in the explosion, but residents told the local WTRF 7 news station that they could see a massive fireball shooting hundreds of feet into the air. An emergency dispatcher reportedly told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review that the flames had melted the siding off one home and damaged at least one power line. The gas pipeline is owned by Houston, Texas-based The Enterprise Products, L.P., which said Monday evening that it is investigating the cause of the explosion.
The West Virginia explosion is the fourth in a string of news-making pipeline incidents this month.
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Another Pipeline Explosion This Time In West Virginia Crooks and Liars
That's true, but oil lines explode, too, and rupture and cause harm to the environment. The people that would have the Keystone pipeline going through their state do not want it, especially since it doesn't even benefit them.
An oil leak triggered by pipeline explosions Friday in the northeastern port city of Dalian had contaminated at least 50 square kilometers of ocean waters as of last night, and local authorities were still rushing to contain the oil.
Oil spill at sea after pipelines explode - China News - SINA English
On December 19, 2010, an oil pipeline in Mexico exploded, killing at least 27 people and injured more than 50.
Anthony Marr Why Pipelines Don t Leak But Explode
A pipeline released fuel oil at Chalk Point near Aquasco, Maryland, on April 7. The Piney Point Oil Pipeline system, which was owned by the Potomac Electric Power Company (Pepco), experienced a pipe failure at the Chalk Point Generating Station in southeastern Prince George's County, Maryland.
On January 21, 2015 a crude oil pipeline pump station caught fire northwest of Texas City, Texas. Texas City
On January 19, 2015 oil from a broken pipeline seeped into the Yellowstone River, and contaminated the water supply 10 miles south of Glendive, Montana.
On October 13, 2014 a Sunoco/Mid-Valley crude oil pipeline ruptured, and spilled about 168,000 gallons of crude oil in Caddo Parish, Louisiana.
On February 5, a pipeline failed and spilled over 192,000 US gallons (730,000 L) of crude oil in the John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge in Pennsylvania.
On August 24, a 6-inch pipeline operated by Chevron failed from alleged external corrosion, spilling 126,000 gallons of crude oil into an unnamed creek, near Snyder, Texas. The creek was dry at the time. Later, a Federal Court ruled that the Clean Water Actdid not apply, since there was no water flowing in the creek at the time.
On August 17, an Oklahoma crude oil pipeline ruptured after being struck by a machine cleaning roadside ditches, sending oil 30 feet (9.1 m) into the air
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List of pipeline accidents in the United States in the 21st century - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
You're blowing it out your ass Mertex that the states don't want pipelines going thru their states.
The Keystone and the XL do benefit individual states. That's why states have welcomed the construction of pipelines. Tax revenue.
You're late to the party. Why didn't you and Darryl Hannah and Niel Young protest the Keystone southern leg from Cushing to the Gulf that was being built at the same time you guys were protesting the Northern leg?
The Keystone is finished by the way. The XL is just a secondary northern leg of the pipeline that would also pick up Bakken crude from North Dakota and Montana.
Anyways, if you were worried about pipelines crossing America you better get on a pair of Depends because you're going to shit yourself.
Get out there Mertex!!!! Demand all the pipelines be ripped up! You go Mertex!
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