Word of the decision might spill before the official announcement.
Nebraska legislature to regulators:
Don’t worry about pipeline safety. Somebody else is taking care of that.
Just want to point out that each circle is not an individual spill.
A circle indicates the aggregate spill volume over the time period in the county at the center of the circle.
In Harris County, TX, the circle represents “over 200 spills.”
It does show the pipelines we already have too. So, why do we need a new line, why can’t they update and maintain current infrastructure?
I know there a number questions that follow: why support a dying industry at all?
Is this really just a way to expand use of eminent domain for corporations? (Yes)
The whole thing makes me sick.
It looks like Texas is just pretty toxic everywhere except the Big Bend, because it’s inaccessible.
Where does this chart come from? Who made it?
Nebraska better think about The Ogallala Aquifer. Water is more important. Than all the oil going to China.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogallala_Aquifer
How long have you had that one in the pipeline waiting to use it?
There are very plausible reasons for installing a new line versus upgrading an existing one. The most likely reason, I would guess, is that upgrading an existing line to handle the additional volume would mean shutting down that line for a lengthy period. Also, I don’t believe that the tar-sands crude being transported in Keystone XL can be mixed with “regular” crude in a pipeline, because its chemical makeup is more of a challenge to handle. The existing Keystone pipeline might be the only upgrade option. Shutting it down might leave a lot of equipment idle at both ends of the pipeline.
Not long; only until I had another crude pun ready to push it through.
Glad I got here oily…
Good question.
I found it here. They got it from a NY Times article, which has the graphic with additional information on a separate page.
Per that page, the Times made the graphic, using information from “Department of Transportation, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration.”
I’m just a warmup act before the movie: Tar Sand of the Apes.
That is the basis. Almost all the “oil”, really a toxic soup, is to the benefit of a Canadian company, shipping the product overseas. It is idiocracy in action to allow such.
I agree the tar sand oil can’t mix with other oil. I remember the Kalamazoo River spill, tar sands oil sinks and in general is harder to clean up.
If we made them reuse the land they have they’d find a way to build a new line next to it or change what they have.
OT. OH, and I’m sure all Pruitts work to strip regulations and the deaths that will result are not counted in this admin’s OMB.
Well let’s see. Illegitimate traitor Trump has made us China’s bitch by backing out of the Pacific Trade deal. He’s made us 18th century technology’s bitch by backing out of Paris and backing King Coal. And now he’s making us Canada’s bitch by letting them endanger OUR water tables by transporting THEIR oil because THEY don’t want to endanger THEIR water.
Thanks conservatives. You can drink your poison. You can’t have any or my water.