Since 1990, more than 110 million gallons of mostly crude and petroleum products have spilled from the nation’s mainland pipeline network. More than half of it occurred in three states — Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana — where more pipelines exist.
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But the Exxon Mobil pipeline spill, initially estimated to have released at least 157,000 gallons of crude oil and driven more than 20 families from their homes, represents only a fraction of the regular oil losses from the huge network of pipelines stretching across the United States.
Between 2008 and 2012, U.S. pipelines spilled an average of more than 3.1 million gallons of hazardous liquids per year, according to data from the Pipeline & Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, the nation’s pipeline regulator. Those spills — most commonly caused by corrosion and equipment failure — caused at least $1.5 billion in property damage altogether.
In 2010, a historic inland spill of 819,000 gallons of diluted bitumen — a kind of oil from the tar sands in Alberta — shut down the Kalamazoo River for miles after a pipeline break in Marshall, Mich. Enbridge Inc., a Canadian pipeline company, ended up buying 150 homes from locals too unsettled by the disaster to return.
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So yeah...no damage at all.
Taken as a percentage of total volume moved, it's peanuts.
Pipeline spills are rare and usually comparatively contained.
Compared to other modes of transport, the accidents are infinitesimal.
And, if the spill occurs on your property, you're compensated appropriately.
More than half of it occurred in three states — Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana — where more pipelines exist.
And, last I heard, the folks in Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana fully support the Keystone XL project. Because they understand the risks involved...and that the reward to the economy will far exceed those risks.
You anti-fracing, too...???