TransCanada lied about the Keystone XL pipeline and spills more oil than expected
Reuters reported Monday that a review of documents revealed the company estimated the risk of a pipeline leak of more than 50 barrels at "not more than once every seven to 11 years over the entire length of the pipeline in the United States" and predicted a "spill no more than once every 41 years" in South Dakota. In November, an estimated 5,000 barrels of oil leaked onto agricultural land near Amherst, South Dakota, shutting down the pipeline in the northeastern part of the state. The approximately 210,000-gallon spill was one of the largest onshore oil or petroleum product spills since 2010, according to the Associated Press.
The November spill was the second time the pipeline leaked in South Dakota. In April 2016, a leak in the pipeline near Freeman, South Dakota, resulted in a spill of nearly 17,000 gallons of oil. The roughly 400-barrel spill was much worse than initially reported to federal authorities, and TransCanada reportedly requested the FAA create a no-fly zone above the spill. A passerby discovered the spill that eluded the pipeline's spill detection system and soaked private land. The spill caused a weeklong shutdown on the pipeline, according to the Associated Press.
In May 2011, roughly 14,000 gallons of oil, or more than 300 barrels, leaked in neighboring North Dakota after a valve reportedly failed at a pumping station near the South Dakota border. Other estimates put the spill closer to 21,000 galllons.
The company is currently seeking to expand its current system with the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. The Trump administration has greenlighted the controversial project, reversing a decision by former President Barack Obama. The massive project would eventually connect tar sands in Canada to the Gulf Coast.
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Reuters reported Monday that a review of documents revealed the company estimated the risk of a pipeline leak of more than 50 barrels at "not more than once every seven to 11 years over the entire length of the pipeline in the United States" and predicted a "spill no more than once every 41 years" in South Dakota. In November, an estimated 5,000 barrels of oil leaked onto agricultural land near Amherst, South Dakota, shutting down the pipeline in the northeastern part of the state. The approximately 210,000-gallon spill was one of the largest onshore oil or petroleum product spills since 2010, according to the Associated Press.
The November spill was the second time the pipeline leaked in South Dakota. In April 2016, a leak in the pipeline near Freeman, South Dakota, resulted in a spill of nearly 17,000 gallons of oil. The roughly 400-barrel spill was much worse than initially reported to federal authorities, and TransCanada reportedly requested the FAA create a no-fly zone above the spill. A passerby discovered the spill that eluded the pipeline's spill detection system and soaked private land. The spill caused a weeklong shutdown on the pipeline, according to the Associated Press.
In May 2011, roughly 14,000 gallons of oil, or more than 300 barrels, leaked in neighboring North Dakota after a valve reportedly failed at a pumping station near the South Dakota border. Other estimates put the spill closer to 21,000 galllons.
The company is currently seeking to expand its current system with the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. The Trump administration has greenlighted the controversial project, reversing a decision by former President Barack Obama. The massive project would eventually connect tar sands in Canada to the Gulf Coast.
https://www.usnews.com/news/national-new...regulators
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
