Does the Yellowstone River Oil Spill Foreshadow the Future if Keystone XL is Approved?

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.care2.com/causes/does-the-yellowstone-river-oil-spill-foreshadow-the-future-if-keystone-xl-is-approved.html

by Judy Molland January 24, 2015 7:00 am

“Suddenly at our house there was a definite smell. It was a diesel smell,” Gerald Reichert, member of the city council of Glendive, Mont., said on January 19. He told the Grand Forks Herald that he didn’t believe the reports of odors coming from residents’ taps until he smelled it in his own home.

Where was this foul odor coming from?

In what many are taking to be a foreshadow of the possible consequences if the Keystone XL pipeline is approved, an estimated 40,000 gallons of crude oil spilled from a pipeline into Montana’s Yellowstone River on January 17.

The spill occurred after a break in the Poplar Pipeline, which carries crude oil from Bakken basin in Canada to Baker, Mont. It has now been shut down. The pipeline was last inspected in 2012 and is at least eight feet below the Yellowstone River bed, where it crosses the river near Glendive.

FULL story at link.

[Peacetrain]

1. In a word.... YES!

You can take that one to the bank!!

[Wounded Bear]

2. Foreshadowing?

I don't think so. This shit has been happening for years, all over the world.

More like reinforcing history than forshadowing the future.

[muntrv]

3. I thought Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf Of Mexico did that.

[Jackpine Radical]

4. They say a pic is worth a thousand words…