It absolutely IS the safest pipeline in the world.
Which is to say, oil pipelines are all unsafe.
The only thing more dangerous is trains and trucks.
Thanks to Trump the Canadians are pissed at the US. So hopefully they stop selling oil to the US, which means shutting down the Keystone pipeline.
Hope you are right, but depends on the power balance after the election, and whether federal or provincial law decides such things.
Isn’t Alberta is more aligned to MAGA politically? Maybe tries to stir up a big provocation, then eventually ‘annex’ it.I’m sure the US will respond sane to not being able to get oil.
The trouble is they have no one else to sell it to. The US is their only market for it since they have no other way to get it to market.
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I don’t think anyone’s is worried about the owners of the CA oil. I’m just pointing out we’re not going to see CA stop selling oil to the US because they have no other option. They aren’t going to take one for the team to punish the US, especially because US oil owns much of the CA oil sands operation.
The trans mountain pipeline was completed last year, so we can now ship oil to other countries.
Interesting… I hadn’t heard that. Can it and refineries on the otherend match the volume needed to cut the US off without pain on your side? Honestly hope so. We need to suffer on this side before the idiots that vote for Trump will acknowledge their mistake.
refining is still an issue that needs solving, as we do send oil to the US to be refined and buy the product back. I know for a long time it was considered un-economical to refine our own oil due to the volume:cost issues, but maybe that might change now?
They don’t say how big the spill was
3500 gal. (13,250 liters)Edit: either I fucked up or the AP updated. 3500 barrels of oil. 147000 gallons (556,455L)
https://apnews.com/article/keystone-oil-pipeline-north-dakota-spill-36e86142566763a5464e1dd132eede56
To put this number in context: I live about a mile from a gas station where the driver of a gasoline truck with a capacity of 8000 gallons decided to dump 4700 of those gallons into a ditch behind the station because he felt like going home and didn’t want to go on to the other stations he was scheduled to deliver it to. For bonus points, this ditch was between the gas station and an elementary school.
So not to excuse this, but 3500 gallons is not quite Exxon Valdez or Deepwater Horizon territory.
Whoops: either I fucked up or the AP updated. 3500 barrels of oil. 147,000 gallons (556,455L)
Just under a quarter of an Olympic pool.
OK that’s a bit more than my local idiot (who went to jail for it, BTW - unlike any oil company executives, ever).
