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Pipeline spills 176,000 gallons of crude into creek about 150 miles from Dakota Access protest camp; It's not yet clear why electronic monitoring equipment didn't detect the leak, Owen told the Asssociated Press.
Topic Started: Dec 13 2016, 08:41 AM (331 Views)
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A pipeline leak has spilled tens of thousands of gallons of crude oil into a North Dakota creek roughly two and a half hours from Cannon Ball, where protesters are camped out in opposition to the Dakota Access pipeline.

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/pipeline-spills-176-000-gallons-192837222.html
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I can't imagine why these treehuggers don't want another pipeline :sarcasmalert:

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The leak was contained within hours of the its discovery, Wendy Owen, a spokeswoman for Casper, Wyoming-based True Cos., which operates the Belle Fourche pipeline, told CNBC.

It's not yet clear why electronic monitoring equipment didn't detect the leak, Owen told the Asssociated Press.

Owen said the pipeline was shut down immediately after the leak was discovered. The pipeline is buried on a hill near Ash Coulee creek, and the "hillside sloughed," which may have ruptured the line, she said.

"That is our number one theory, but nothing is definitive," Owen said. "We have several working theories and the investigation is ongoing."


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Energy Transfer Partners says the Dakota Access pipeline would include safeguards such as leak detection equipment and that workers monitoring the pipeline remotely in Texas could close valves within three minutes if a breach is detected.


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True Cos. has a history of oil field–related spills in North Dakota and Montana, including a January 2015 pipeline break into the Yellowstone River. The 32,000-gallon spill temporarily shut down water supplies in the downstream community of Glendive, Montana, after oil was detected in the city's water treatment system.

True Cos. operates at least three pipeline companies with a combined 1,648 miles of line in Montana, North Dakota and Wyoming, according to information the companies submitted to federal regulators. Since 2006, the companies have reported 36 spills totaling 320,000 gallons of petroleum products, most of which was never recovered.
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176,000 gallons is not a lot of crude. I also expect them to clean it up. Compared to the EPA created pollution "The Environmental Protection Agency took responsibility Friday for inadvertently polluting a Colorado river with 1 million gallons of toxic orange wastewater while trying to clean up an abandoned gold mine." this is barely newsworthy. I expect all liberals to protest and stop using their cars from this date forward.
"No. No he won't. We'll stop it."
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The Russians did it.
Kate Steinle was separated from her family permanently but leftists didn't seem to mind.
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edro14

"ABOUT...not a definite or accurate assessment of the total spillage.

It is a merely a crude estimate of how much crude oil is on the ground.

In all likelihood it is a low estimate since conservative pundits love to under report the truth.
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If anyone recalls what environmental damage the Exxon Valdez did to the coastline of Alaska we should be concerned.

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Dec 13 2016, 09:57 AM
176,000 gallons is not a lot of crude. I also expect them to clean it up. Compared to the EPA created pollution "The Environmental Protection Agency took responsibility Friday for inadvertently polluting a Colorado river with 1 million gallons of toxic orange wastewater while trying to clean up an abandoned gold mine." this is barely newsworthy. I expect all liberals to protest and stop using their cars from this date forward.
How many gallons of crude is required to initiate cause and effect?
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Tsalagi
Dec 13 2016, 01:23 PM
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Dec 13 2016, 09:57 AM
176,000 gallons is not a lot of crude. I also expect them to clean it up. Compared to the EPA created pollution "The Environmental Protection Agency took responsibility Friday for inadvertently polluting a Colorado river with 1 million gallons of toxic orange wastewater while trying to clean up an abandoned gold mine." this is barely newsworthy. I expect all liberals to protest and stop using their cars from this date forward.
How many gallons of crude is required to initiate cause and effect?
I'm not sure, I can assume it depends on where it was spilled, in a river, on dry uninhabited land.....either way the people that are responsible should indeed be charged with cleaning it up. Other damages incurred by private people and businesses should also be assessed.
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What do you think the Oil industry will actually do?

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Dec 13 2016, 01:28 PM
What do you think the Oil industry will actually do?

I assume they will clean it up or face a wave of litigation and bad public relations.
Edited by PATruth, Dec 13 2016, 01:30 PM.
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edro14
Dec 13 2016, 01:28 PM
What do you think the Oil industry will actually do?

The oil industry will demand an environmental impact study of hundreds of thousands of gallons of raw sewage spilled by demonstrators.................... :biggrin:
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Your troll droppings will be greatly appreciated.
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Dec 13 2016, 04:09 PM
Thx.
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Dec 13 2016, 04:09 PM
Your troll droppings will be greatly appreciated.
Where was your outrage when Obama EPA spilled millions of gallons of heavy metal into the Animas River?
Kate Steinle was separated from her family permanently but leftists didn't seem to mind.
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Sabotage for public relations effect? Perish the thought!
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Dec 13 2016, 09:57 AM
176,000 gallons is not a lot of crude. I also expect them to clean it up. Compared to the EPA created pollution "The Environmental Protection Agency took responsibility Friday for inadvertently polluting a Colorado river with 1 million gallons of toxic orange wastewater while trying to clean up an abandoned gold mine." this is barely newsworthy. I expect all liberals to protest and stop using their cars from this date forward.
176000 gallons is roughly equivalent to a train accident where 6 tanker rail cars breach.

It is also about the same as 20 tractor trailer accidents involving oil transport.

If you don't have pipelines then the oil will be transported by one of these other two methods, both of which are far, far less reliable and both of which have far more accidents annually.
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Thousands of Standing Rock protesters have disappeared....Foul play by oil companies is suspected....The Spring thaw may reveal their whereabouts..................... :wah:
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The low temperature on Saturday will be -26 degree F in Bismarck, ND....Any demonstrators left will have severe frostbite requiring hospitalization...Some survivors will begin to demonstrate to support oil pipelines......... :shakeshead:
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