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TransCanada has announced that its Keystone pipeline—the model for the Keystone XL pipeline, which was the center of mass protests throughout 2016-17—has been shut down after leaking 5,000 barrels of oil, or 210,000 gallons, in Marshall County, South Dakota.
According to South Dakota’s local ABC affiliate KSFY:
“Brian Walsh with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources tells KSFY News they were alerted to the leak at 10:30 a.m. Thursday morning by TransCanada...The pipeline has been shut off and the leak has been covered. An emergency response plan has been activated to get more staff and contractors to the site for clean up.
Walsh also says that no oil has entered the state’s waterways. (Water contamination was a major concern to protesters who camped out at Dakota Access/Keystone XL Pipeline construction sites last winter in the brutal cold, leading to what’s now known as the Standing Rock Movement, which was led by the Standing Rock Sioux and Indigenous Environmental Network.) However, the leak—with a clean-up estimated to take “some time,” according to Walsh—has damaged large portions of agricultural land throughout Marshall County.
The Keystone pipeline—shut down following the leak—is owned by TransCanada and funnels oil between Alberta, Canada and Patoka, Illinois or Port Arthur, Texas. The construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, which will add a segment connecting Steele City, Nebraska to Hardisty, Alberta (running through South Dakota and posing the risk of polluting several waterways), was approved in an executive order signed by Donald Trump last January.
According to South Dakota’s local ABC affiliate KSFY:
“Brian Walsh with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources tells KSFY News they were alerted to the leak at 10:30 a.m. Thursday morning by TransCanada...The pipeline has been shut off and the leak has been covered. An emergency response plan has been activated to get more staff and contractors to the site for clean up.
Walsh also says that no oil has entered the state’s waterways. (Water contamination was a major concern to protesters who camped out at Dakota Access/Keystone XL Pipeline construction sites last winter in the brutal cold, leading to what’s now known as the Standing Rock Movement, which was led by the Standing Rock Sioux and Indigenous Environmental Network.) However, the leak—with a clean-up estimated to take “some time,” according to Walsh—has damaged large portions of agricultural land throughout Marshall County.
The Keystone pipeline—shut down following the leak—is owned by TransCanada and funnels oil between Alberta, Canada and Patoka, Illinois or Port Arthur, Texas. The construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, which will add a segment connecting Steele City, Nebraska to Hardisty, Alberta (running through South Dakota and posing the risk of polluting several waterways), was approved in an executive order signed by Donald Trump last January.
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Does they call this irony
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Body bag!!! Thats ? up
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Yeah right the ? damaged agricultural land but it didn’t enter the states waterways foh they know what they were doing who the ? you foolin? Such good control huh? Lol they stay playing with our intelligence I tell you! Wake up if you want to!
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited the White House Monday for the first time since Donald Trump took office. In a joint news conference, Trump and Trudeau discussed trade, national security and immigration policy. During a White House press conference, neither president talked about oil pipelines, despite their joint support for building new ones. Last month, Trudeau welcomed the decision by Donald Trump to move ahead on the Keystone XL pipeline project. Trudeau has also come under fire by environmental activists for approving two major pipelines: Kinder Morgan’s $5 billion Trans Mountain pipeline and the $7.5 billion Enbridge Line 3 pipeline. We speak to Clayton Thomas-Muller, a leading organizer and writer on environmental justice and indigenous rights. He is a campaigner at 350.org and a member of the Mathias Colomb Cree Nation in Northern Manitoba, Canada.
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the environment is doomed under trump
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vagrant-718 wrote: »the environment is doomed under trump
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vagrant-718 wrote: »the environment is doomed under trump
But he brought LiAngelo home ? -
42 gallons is 1 barrel think about that
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Elzo69Renaissance wrote: »Does they call this irony
Nope, because irony requires the results to be contrary to the expectations. In this case, everyone knew this ? would happen eventually even some of the people fighting for the pipeline. -
The Lonious Monk wrote: »Elzo69Renaissance wrote: »Does they call this irony
Nope, because irony requires the results to be contrary to the expectations. In this case, everyone knew this ? would happen eventually even some of the people fighting for the pipeline.
Maybe he meant "inevitable" -
The Lonious Monk wrote: »Elzo69Renaissance wrote: »Does they call this irony
Nope, because irony requires the results to be contrary to the expectations. In this case, everyone knew this ? would happen eventually even some of the people fighting for the pipeline.
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felliwonda wrote: »Yeah right the ? damaged agricultural land but it didn’t enter the states waterways foh they know what they were doing who the ? you foolin? Such good control huh? Lol they stay playing with our intelligence I tell you! Wake up if you want to!
They lie, in the interests of protecting “national security” (e.g., upsetting too many ppl). -
Article from March this year
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This is what oil pipes do.
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? scott pruitt
