There's Been HOW Many Pipeline Spills in Alberta in The Last Four Months??

[eridani]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/17/1345431/-There-s-Been-HOW-Many-Pipeline-Spills-in-Alberta-in-The-Last-Four-Months

Curious, I went back to July, August and September of this year, and found that October's incidents weren't unusual at all!! In July, 27 incidents were reported --16 of which involved pipelines spilling either crude oil or gas production. August saw 39 spills or releases happen, 28 of which involved pipelines. September--26, of which 22 were pipeline spills or releases. October-- 41 total incidents ( 24 pipeline incidents).

The grand total for four months....133 incidents of which 90 involved pipeline spills....68%!!!!

What is produced water that is mentioned in the incident reports? OilfieldWiki states that it is either water mixed with the oil as it comes up from the ground and from two sources: with the oil, or separate from it...OR..it's injected fluid.

Sources of this water may include flow from above or below the hydrocarbon zone, flow from within the hydrocarbon zone, or flow from injected fluids and additives resulting from production activities. This water is frequently referred to as “connate water” or “formation water” and becomes produced water when the reservoir is produced and these fluids are brought to the surface. Produced water is any water that is present in a reservoir with the hydrocarbon resource and is produced to the surface with the crude oil or natural gas.

I noticed that in the report of an incident document, every single report mentions that no effects to wildlife or waterways occurred... WHAT?? How can spilling even a small amount of oil not affect the soil and water, and in turn affect the wildlife. Even the removal of the contaminated soil will have an effect. This is the kind of glossing over important facts that happen when there is only self-reporting done. No-one follows up or studies the results. And no-one calls them on their shoddy reporting.

Below are is the legal complaint filed by this woman. Her name has been redacted to protect her identity.

It is not clear whether President Barack Obama would veto the current legislation. The White House press secretary, Josh Earnest, said the president took a “dim view” of the bill. The administration has delayed making a decision about the pipeline and the State Department is currently reviewing litigation about a section of the pipeline route in Nebraska.

[Bill USA]

1. picky, picky, picky!

Ogallala Acquifer

[Scuba]

2. Yeah, but there's jobs at stake! Fifty of them! What's a major aquafer compared to 50 jobs?