Developing: More than 200,000 gallons of oil spilling out of the Keystone pipeline in S.Dakota

[sunonmars]

Developing: More than 200,000 gallons of oil have spilled out of the Keystone pipeline in South Dakota

https://www.buzzfeed.com/jimdalrympleii/oil-spill-south-dakota?bftwnews&utm_term=.ueVwyAak3#.ss2q2P73G

More than 200,000 gallons of oil have spilled out of the Keystone pipeline in South Dakota.

TransCanada, the company that operates the pipeline, said in a statement Thursday that about 5,000 barrels of oil had leaked from the pipe in Marshall County, South Dakota. One barrel holds 42 gallons, meaning the spill involved more than 200,000 gallons of oil.

According to TransCanada, the spill "was completely isolated within 15 minutes and emergency response procedures were activated."

"Crews, including TransCanada specialists from emergency management, engineering, environmental management and safety as well as contracted, nationally recognized experts are assessing the situation."
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Utter Disaster

[onethatcares]

1. Oh gaud, at least

they have experts "assessing the situation".

The Mississippi dead zone just got larger. Soon it will cover the entire country.

[Achilleaze]

2. republican-minded* corporation LIED to America about this

Lie lie lie. They "claimed" it was safe. They lied.

* it don't matter where these corporations are based, they have a republican "screw the planet for profit mentality" and are bound and determined to keep fouling the land, water and air as long as they make big money for the elite.

[Iggo]

3. Because of course it is.

[malaise]

4. Thank Groper Don the Con

Nail him to this oil

[WhiskeyGrinder]

5. Four railroad cars.

[procon]

6. What does "isolated" mean?

They surrounded the spill with an earth berm to keep the oil from spreading any farther over the ground? What about the oil permeating down into the soil, oozing through the layers of rock and dirt, that could contaminate the aquifer? That's what the local residents were so concerned about, that an oil spill would poison their water source.

Everyone lied to push this pipeline through, and now, after only a few months of operation, everything they said could never happen, has.

[MiniMe]

7. Put a tRump property there

Too late I guess, it would have had to be there before the spill

[Duppers]

8. K & R