Posted on 11/16/2017 3:21:28 PM PST by ColdOne
The leak was detected along a stretch of the pipeline about 35 miles south of a pumping station in Marshall County, South Dakota.
TransCanada estimates the pipeline leaked 5,000 barrels of oil, or about 210,000 gallons, before going offline. The company said it's working with state regulators and the Pipelines and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration to assess the situation.
The South Dakota Department of Environment and Natural Resources heard about the leak at about 10:30 a.m. Thursday, ABC affiliate KSFY reported.
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True.
It can all be sopped up. No big deal.
Sabotage is my first thought. Exposed pipelines are ripe for such things, especially in barren areas.
Are they Trucking in some Sea Birds and Otters?
No just first to the thread. :)
I guess it is better for it to leak into the ground then the ocean.
omg! they spilt oil on the ground!
um.. that the oil came out of...
ROFL
“I guess it is better for it to leak into the ground then the ocean.”
Either way these are not things cannot be mitigated and do not make permanent damage in the long run.
Oil & gas & methane are leaking CONSTANTLY in the oceans and in the ground through natural fissures from their original sources. To the extent they disturb something biological nature - writ large - does recover.
Can we do a lot to mitigate for a “mop up” such accidents as well, instead of just waiting for natural courses to take their time? Yes. Should we? Yes. So we can take of these things. They are seldom permanently debilitating.
Baby ducks too. Then they can use Dawn soap to clean all of them!
That definitely seems possible.
excellent response to oil spill kooks
Sabotage
"...210,000 gallon oil spill..."
Keystone Phase 1 and Keystone XL are not the same route of pipeline. Phase 1 completed in 2010 is the one passing through Marshall County of North-East South Dakota. Keystone XL is a proposed and now authorized shortcut passing through the Williston Basin area of Montana.
Donald Trump signed a presidential permit to allow TransCanada to build the Keystone XL pipeline in March 2017.
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