Nobody coulda seen this coming: Keystone pipeline spills more than 350,000 gallons of oil in ND

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BY OWEN DAUGHERTY - 10/31/19 01:51 PM EDT

The Keystone pipeline has spilled hundreds of thousands of gallons of crude oil into North Dakota this week, The New York Times reports.

The pipeline has leaked roughly 383,000 gallons of crude oil, impacting an estimated half-acre of wetland, according to state environmental regulators.

The leak has been contained, according to Karl Rockeman, the director of the state Department of Environmental Quality's division of water quality.

"It is one of the larger spills in the state,” he told the Times.

He added that there are no homes near the site of the spill and the wetland that was impacted is not a source of drinking water. Pipeline owner TC Energy shut down the pipeline after the leak was detected.

Rockeman did not indicate whether cleanup of the spill had begun yet.

In a statement to the Times, TC Energy said it did not know the cause of the leak and that an internal investigation is underway.

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https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/468353-keystone-pipeline-spills-over-350000-gallons-of-oil-in-north-dakota

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Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck. Here's a little reminder for the folks out there:

[Miigwech]

1. Why don't protesters get same rights as Keystone?

Keystone, MF'ers, always have had more political sway than Native Americans who live in the very places where pipe lines will kill them... but the factual truth of oil spills is exactly what Native Americans have been warning, protesting, about.

[SonofDonald]

2. On a trip on Amtrack from Chicago to Washington State

Maybe seven years ago we sat with a couple and the conversation went to all the fracking efforts we saw from the train

I mentioned it'd be a bad place for a spill in that corridor, she said they have plans written up so that can't happen..

I stated there are two reasons for a spill, equipment failure or human error and a piece of paper has never stopped a spill from happening.

She said she worked for a fracking company

I told her I started training for and cleaning up oil spills in 1984 and had 20 years of hazwopper training including by the US Navy's oil spill response co-ordinator along with six years of incidence response training

And that all the paper they created wouldn't soak up a spill whatsoever if thrown on it

The next morning the paper had a story on the front page about a 100,000 plus gallon spill on a farmers land ruining it forever

They wouldn't sit with us again

[DFW]

3. Note the State's environmental overseer only said the leak had been "contained."

"Contained" is not anything near "cleaned up."

Plugging the leak does not help the area that the oil spill polluted one bit, and my bet is that the ND Republican administration couldn't care less.