Keystone, 'Safest Pipeline in the World,' Ruptures—Again
Keystone, 'Safest Pipeline in the World,' Ruptures—Again
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It absolutely IS the safest pipeline in the world.
Which is to say, oil pipelines are all unsafe.
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The only thing more dangerous is trains and trucks.
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They don't say how big the spill was
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3500 gal. (13,250 liters)Edit: either I fucked up or the AP updated. 3500 barrels of oil. 147000 gallons (556,455L)
https://apnews.com/article/keystone-oil-pipeline-north-dakota-spill-36e86142566763a5464e1dd132eede56
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To put this number in context: I live about a mile from a gas station where the driver of a gasoline truck with a capacity of 8000 gallons decided to dump 4700 of those gallons into a ditch behind the station because he felt like going home and didn't want to go on to the other stations he was scheduled to deliver it to. For bonus points, this ditch was between the gas station and an elementary school.
So not to excuse this, but 3500 gallons is not quite Exxon Valdez or Deepwater Horizon territory.
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Thanks to Trump the Canadians are pissed at the US. So hopefully they stop selling oil to the US, which means shutting down the Keystone pipeline.
I'm sure the US will respond sane to not being able to get oil.
Hope you are right, but depends on the power balance after the election, and whether federal or provincial law decides such things.
Isn't Alberta is more aligned to MAGA politically? Maybe tries to stir up a big provocation, then eventually 'annex' it.
The trouble is they have no one else to sell it to. The US is their only market for it since they have no other way to get it to market.
The trans mountain pipeline was completed last year, so we can now ship oil to other countries.