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Keystone Pipeline Leaks 210,000 Gallons of Oil in South Dakota

posted by mrpg on Sunday November 19 2017, @04:25AM   Printer-friendly
from the color-me-oil dept.

Keystone Pipeline leaks 210,000 gallons of oil in South Dakota

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Keystone Pipeline leaks 210,000 gallons of oil in South Dakota

"A total of 210,000 gallons of oil leaked Thursday (Nov 16, 2017) from the Keystone Pipeline in South Dakota, the pipeline's operator, TransCanada, said.

Crews shut down the pipeline Thursday morning, and officials are investigating the cause of the leak, which occurred about three miles southeast of the town of Amherst, said Brian Walsh, a spokesman for the state's Department of Environment and Natural Resources.

This is the largest Keystone oil spill to date in South Dakota, Walsh said. The leak comes just days before Nebraska officials announce a decision on whether the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline, a sister project, can move forward."

Keystone pipeline - major leak/spill

Elsewhere there are notes of smaller spills in the same pipeline--this AC submitter is wondering about the long term use of a pipeline that is leaking when it's nearly brand new. Doesn't sound good for the long term.

PBS has a followup article from today (Saturday), 'We need to know' more about Keystone oil pipeline leak, tribal chairman says

The leak comes as the debate over the proposed path of the Keystone XL pipeline rages on. Nebraska's Public Service Commission is scheduled to announce its decision Monday on whether to permit TransCanada to build Keystone XL along its proposed route in the state, the Omaha World-Herald reported. A spokeswoman for the commission told the AP that the board's members will only use information provided during public hearings and official public comments in order to make their decision.

Related:
US District Court: Approval of Dakota Access Pipeline Violated the Law
Dakota Access Pipeline Suffers Oil Leak Even Before Becoming Operational
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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by fritsd on Monday November 20 2017, @04:54PM (2 children)

    by fritsd (4586) on Monday November 20 2017, @04:54PM (#599288) Journal

    It doesn't take much to have eight cars derail and spill their contents all around and there is a much greater chance of that bursting into flames somehow when hastily moving train cars smash, bash, bend, split and spill.

    We're not talking about an ethylene or chlorine train derailing here; we're talking about a freight train with this type [wikipedia.org] of wagons filled with smelly rocks.

    In case of spill, bring people with shovels.

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  • (Score: 2) by drussell on Tuesday November 21 2017, @12:07AM (1 child)

    by drussell (2678) on Tuesday November 21 2017, @12:07AM (#599445) Journal

    Whaaaaa?.... Huh??!

    We're talking about moving crude oil not some kind of ore...

    • (Score: 2) by fritsd on Tuesday November 21 2017, @04:38PM

      by fritsd (4586) on Tuesday November 21 2017, @04:38PM (#599716) Journal

      It could well be that I'm confused; in that case, I'm sorry for the misinformation.

      I thought that Canadian crude oil came from here:

      Athabasca oil sands [wikipedia.org]

      Where "oil sands" actually means: some kind of ore, if I understand the Wiki page correctly. I mean: they don't normally use open pit mining methods for crude oil, amirite?

      picture [bloomberg.com]

      So.

      When (not if) the post-Peak Oil Athabasca bitumen is no longer profitable, they can use the 3456 km pipeline to export maple syrup to the south, or maybe coca-cola to the north :-)

      (from the Bloomberg article:)

      Almost all of Canada’s reserves (and production) are in the form of oil sands, which are among the most expensive types of crude to produce.

      (The Bloomberg article from December 2014 has a handy graph that made me laugh: crude bitumen production from January 2010 to December 2019)