Dakota Access Pipeline Approved a Week After Co-Owner's Pipeline Spilled 600,000 Gallons of Oil in

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Dakota Access Pipeline Approved a Week After Co-Owner's Pipeline Spilled 600,000 Gallons of Oil in Texas
https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/02/09/dakota-access-pipeline-approved-enbridge-spill-texas?utm_content=buffera7fc1&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer





By Steve Horn • Thursday, February 9, 2017 - 18:19



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Oil spill in Blue Ridge, Texas


On January 30, 600,000 gallons (14,285 barrels) of oil spewed out of Enbridge's Seaway Pipeline in Blue Ridge, Texas, the second spill since the pipeline opened for business in mid-2016.

Seaway is half owned by Enbridge and serves as the final leg of a pipeline system DeSmog has called the “Keystone XL Clone,” which carries mostly tar sands extracted from Alberta, Canada, across the U.S. at a rate of 400,000 barrels per day down to the Gulf of Mexico. Enbridge is an equity co-owner of the Dakota Access pipeline, which received its final permit needed from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on February 7 to construct the pipeline across the Missouri River and construction has resumed.

The alignment of Native American tribes, environmentalists, and others involved in the fight against Dakota Access have called themselves “water protectors,” rather than “activists,” out of concern that a pipeline spill could contaminate their drinking water source, the Missouri River.


“Just Spewing”
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“You could just smell this oil smell. A customer walks in and says ‘nobody smoke.' You could see it just spewing,” Clayton told KDFW-TV, the local Fox News affiliate in the area. “It was just super huge. It was like a big cloud. The fire marshal said, 'This is like a danger zone. You guys have to evacuate immediately.' I was totally freaked out. I kept texting the boss man.”......................................

[BSdetect]

1. The new America. Oil spewing all over.

Its bad enough we have an Exxon Valdiz worth of oil leaks just from cars each year.

Have they fixed Flint's water yet?

The nutjobs still think coal and oil are the future?

[Jim Beard]

2. Few people realize that these pipelines transport a variety of materials and the poor guy that .....

gets his gasoline as they switch from gasoline to diesel just has a bad week or so.

They are also used for storage when processing is slow and the pumpers want to continue.