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In reply to the discussion: Keystone pipeline canceled after Biden had blocked permit [View all]BobTheSubgenius
(11,535 posts)30. I hadn't even considered the "underground" part.
My (very) bad. I believe telemetry is good enough to detect a leak, but I don't know how much flow change that would require, nor how it might be pinpointed.
My car knows when the gas cap isn't screwed down completely tight. It's all a matter of how much money is required and the will to make it happen.
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It would have moved up to 830,000 barrels (35 million gallons) of crude daily
Submariner
Jun 2021
#2
And how long it would take to discover the leak, since the pipeline would have been underground.
SunSeeker
Jun 2021
#11
Why don't the Canadians build a refinery and process the crude in their own country?
patphil
Jun 2021
#17