A spill is classified as significant if more than 50 barrels of oil escape. While the pipeline was shut off within 15 minutes of the leak, which reportedly took place away from surface water, Ruth Hopkins, a Lakota writer and activist noted the location was dangerously close to an aquifer on which the Lake Traverse Reservation depends.
John Stansbury, PhD, PE, professor of environmental and water resources engineering at the University of Nebraska, has estimated that Keystone XL would result in 91 major spills over the year life of the pipeline. The Keystone XL pipeline is supported by refineries in the Gulf Coast that export the majority of their product internationally. This was also the case in when the Gulf Coast exported about 3 million barrels of crude oil and refined products—and U.
With a precedence for exportation, it is difficult to believe that the transported Canadian tar sands will ultimately be provided to U. Many climate activists have opposed the pipelines due to their suspicion that renewable technologies will once again be placed on the back burner. The State Department said in a assessment that the Keystone XL pipeline would have no additional impact on greenhouse gas emissions because the oil would be extracted from tar sands in Canada at the same rate, regardless of whether or not the pipeline was built.
If more pipelines continue to be built, oil extraction will occur at a faster rate, resulting in a quicker release of greenhouse gases. The Sioux claim that if the U. After a year of extreme weather — at an extreme cost to the economy — this age old jobs vs.
Hurricanes, floods, and droughts are already having a devastating effect on American jobs, and that is nothing compared to what will happen if we throw open the spigot to the tar sands from Canada, considered the dirtiest oil in the world. Here are 5 reasons why building the Keystone pipeline is bad for the economy — and workers. In the past two years, the vast majority of U.
But at least those working in the industry as a whole get paid high wages, right? This year's construction season would have been from Oyen to Hardisty. Our population is just people but we have about hotel beds. We're geared for construction season - providing accommodation, meals and services.
My belief is that the pipeline will get built eventually with the need to create American jobs. I'm in favour of construction and development over the environment. I think the environment portion of the debate is overrated. We're just cutting our own throats to say we're green. I don't think people objecting to the pipeline have ever seen a pipeline going into the ground.
Compared to tankers travelling around the world, trains taking oil out, it's a very safe system. We have a lot of pipelines in and out of Hardisty and a year after they're in the ground and the soil is put back, the farmers are growing crops and the cattle are back grazing.
I think that people who are thinking that we'll all be electric in 20 years are way out and dreaming. I think we'll have oil for a long, long time. This decision is important. I've said that it's 'game over' for climate if we move from conventional fossil fuels into unconventional, which are even dirtier and more carbon intensive.
Terminating Keystone XL gives us a chance to avoid a big leap into that big mess. It's stop-gap action. Pipelines are superior to other methods of moving oil - tankers, trains - but that's the point. We must leave that sludge in the ground and retain the healthy forest above. Pipelines would let this tar sands travesty continue longer, with our young people paying the price.
The reason we supported the pipeline is because these economic opportunities are few and far between, especially a big project like this. I've got to think about my young people. I'm between a rock and a hard place when it comes down to being a cultural leader and a businessman.
When these opportunities come I have to jump on them. I'm not going to sit back and watch them go through my traditional territory when there's an opportunity to seize. The news has been devastating for us. Our young people came up to me and said 'now what are you going to do? I have to go out there and try to find more opportunities for them.
Tax ID: Keystone XL and the Climate Emergency New fossil fuel projects, including pipelines like Keystone, are incompatible with limiting global warming to below 1. Among the Wildlife Affected by Keystone XL: Whooping cranes: Toxic tailing ponds in Canada, power line collisions, oil spills Interior least tern: Disturbance of breeding habitat, power line collisions, oil spills Piping plover : Power line collisions, increased exposure to predators, oil spills American burying beetle : Loss of vital grass habitat, smashing during construction, oil spills Details on Impacts Pipeline Spills KXL would stretch across hundreds of miles and carry up to 35 million gallons of oil every day.
Regulators have predicted that it could spill oil up to times during its year lifetime. Past tar-sands oil spills have devastated local wildlife. The toxic effects of tar-sands spills can reduce entire populations or biological communities of sensitive species.
Power Lines KXL would require the construction of hundreds of miles of new power lines, creating significant collision threats for imperiled birds and bats. Only about endangered whooping cranes remain in the wild. Ground Disturbance Construction on just the northern U.
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