More Than 200,000 Gallons Of Oil Spill Along The Keystone Pipeline

[Cattledog]

Source: Buzzfeed

More than 200,000 gallons of oil have spilled out of the Keystone XL 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."

Read more: https://www.buzzfeed.com/jimdalrympleii/oil-spill-south-dakota?bftwnews&utm_term=.xo1VGQJ3rD#.rcWXVGq9yw

[Angry Dragon]

1. fine them $200 million

[lagomorph777]

2. Already?

WTF - these people should have been stopped. Clearly incompetent.

[Chakaconcarne]

3. Let's be sure we provide TC with ample funding

to cover the costs of this minor, inconsequential clean up.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

4. Marshall County, South Dakota? Probably froze solid instantly.

What? Oh, my bad. The temperature will soar almost to 50 degrees F this weekend.

https://weather.com/weather/tenday/l/57401:4:US

[Cattledog]

6. Crude oil does not freeze solid.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

7. Yeah, sorry. It just gets molasses-like.

I was thinking SD would be really cold right around now. It was 16 degrees F in Duluth last week. Admittedly, that's a long way from Marshall County, SD.

They don't have their cars equipped with engine oil pan heaters for nothing.

Thanks.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

5. "...nationally recognized experts are assessing the situation."

Nationally. Recognized. Experts.

I feel better already.

[SCantiGOP]

9. You beat me to it

I was going to say there is no story here since their self-described "nationally recognized experts" were looking into it.
What a crock/

[turbinetree]

8. Oh boy lookie,

it just goes through the watershed for the Minnesota River and the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate of the Lake Traverse Reservation, what could possible go wrong, water doesn't mean a thing

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Marshall+County,+SD/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x52cdc5df19fb4845:0x9493b31ba748db7?sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwim1vOiicTXAhVFzIMKHSvOCQkQ8gEIlwEwDw

Here since its "Native American Month" lets bring out this famous speech, which was posted on this site yesterday, it says it all:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017466767


And this article:

https://indiancountrymedianetwork.com/news/opinions/keystone-xl-equals-death/

[Plucketeer]

10. The uppermost

shirt and tie types from TransCanada should be made to slog thru the mess, just like their emergency crews do.

[Sunlei]

11. spill involved "more than" 200,000 gallons of oil..so? 800,000? a million? a days worth, 2 days, 3?

[bluestarone]

13. this x

1,000,000

[IronLionZion]

12. This is the price of freedom

think of all the jobs created by this pipeline. Think of the water that is for the First Americans reservation nearby and not for the privileged whites far away and it will all make sense why it was so important to route it right by a very important aquifer.

[riversedge]

14. "This is the largest Keystone oil spill to date in South Dakota, said Brian Walsh, a spokesman for t

julieturkewitz?Verified account @julieturkewitz

julieturkewitz Retweeted julieturkewitz

"This is the largest Keystone oil spill to date in South Dakota, said Brian Walsh, a spokesman for the state's Department of Environment and Natural Resources."

Link to tweet

[Lucky Luciano]

15. If only there were some way to anticipate this. nt

[tclambert]

16. "No one could have predicted this would happen."

To be said by Republicans in 3 . . . 2 . . . 1 . . .