TransCanada sends more crews to Keystone pipeline leak

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Updated 3:14 pm, Sunday, November 19, 2017



AMHERST, S.D. (AP) — TransCanada Corp. says the company has sent additional crews and equipment to the site of a 210,000-gallon oil spill in South Dakota from its Keystone pipeline.

TransCanada said Saturday it is making progress in its investigation into the spill cause on farmland in Marshall County, near the North Dakota border, about 250 miles (402 kilometers) west of Minneapolis. But the company did not elaborate on the cause. The company says additional equipment and workers continue to be dispatched to the site.
 
Company spokesman Terry Cunha said Sunday that about 150 people are now at the site. Cunha said a gravel road has been completed to handle heavy equipment.

Cunha said a drainage ditch near the leak was protected by a berm and not polluted by the spill. State officials earlier said they did not believe the spill has polluted any surface water bodies or drinking water systems. A drainage ditch is clearly visible in aerial footage taken by DroneBase on Friday.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/texas/article/TransCanada-sends-more-crews-to-Keystone-pipeline-12369573.php

[bluestarone]

1. just cannot believe

these lying bastards

[AllaN01Bear]

2. told ya so.

[Wellstone ruled]

3. This is what happens when you take the

lowest bid for a Construction Job. Had a Nephew on this original job,went from a Truck Driver to a Welder second week on the Job. What could go wrong? Some one must have shown him the On and Off switch.

[benld74]

4. Workers come from all over country

Colorado Cousin’s son left home because of no work 4 years ago. Wound up in Pennsylvania shale country, fracking of all things
Found out during a dinner from my sister. I told her about the fracking dangers, she just says he needed the work. When asked what about his college degree, was told he worked mines with his dad getting experience.
Well I bit my tongue and got red.

That’s why he left for work! Nothing else he could do. Last I heard he got laid off, wouldn’t surprise me if he got hired onto this fiasco

[marble falls]

5. So I guess they're job creators after all.

<sarcasm emoji here>

[freddyvh]

6. the sad thing?

the company will use this as an excuse as they are doing whatever they can to fight pollution

[Angry Dragon]

7. fine the hell out of them and can not pass on the fine to consumers