ESPECIALLY from environmentalists like Biden!
The alternative delivery system are 1 million barrel oil tankers and I ask environmentalists this simple question:
Which would damage the environment more:
1 million barrels traveling in an oil tanker on one mile of open ocean OR
700 barrels traveling one mile in a pipeline buried on dry land?
To a non-expert like me the realities of oil spills by pipelines vs oil tankers over last 10 years seems relevant.
Pipeline spills
the existing Keystone pipeline experienced 14 spills since June 2010. The key here is the volume:
Seven were 10 gallons or less, (70 gallons, OK?_ two were between 300 and 500 gallons.( 1,000 gallons)
The worst pipeline spill, of 21,000 gallons, was in May 2011 following a valve failure at a pumping station in Sargent County, N.D. A second leak, of 430 gallons, occurred later that same month in Doniphan County, Kan. TransCanda responded to both leaks by shutting down the entire pipeline system for two weeks to give the company time to replace fittings.
The Obama administration announced on Thursday it was delaying construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, a proposed Canadian project so rich in promised jobs, tax revenues, and oil imports that its approval seemed assure. But the proposal to bring crude oil from Alberta’s tar sands to...
www.csmonitor.com
Now what about oil tankers?
Many of you maybe too young to know about the Exxon Valdez in 1989...
The Exxon Valdez oil spill occurred when an oil tanker crashed onto the shore of Prince William Sound in Alaska on March 24, 1989. It contaminated 1,300 miles of coastline with 250,000 barrels or 11 million gallons of oil.
Now as far as from that spill the record of oil tanker spills is as follows:
Tanker spills
The total volume of oil lost to the environment from tanker spills in 2020 was approximately 1,000 tonnes.
Documents & Guides - Promoting Effective Spill Response - ITOPF
www.itopf.org
Now there are 2,204 lbs in one tonne... or 2,204,000 lbs at 300 lbs /barrel at 55 gallons or 404,066 gallons...
Hmmm... the WORST pipeline spill of 21,000 gallons vs all tanker spills in 2020 of 404,066 gallons...Hmmm?
Which spill had the most oil?