Pipeline Leak Should Be the Death Nail to the XL Keystone

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Exxon pipeline leaks thousands of barrels of Canadian oil in Arkansas

NEW YORK — Exxon Mobil was working to clean up thousands of barrels of oil in Mayflower, Arkansas, after a pipeline carrying heavy Canadian crude ruptured, a major spill likely to stoke debate over transporting Canada's oil to the United States.

Exxon shut the Pegasus pipeline, which can carry more than 90,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil from Pakota, Illinois, to Nederland, Texas, after the leak was discovered on Friday afternoon, the company said in a statement.

Exxon, hit with a $1.7 million fine by regulators this week over a 2011 spill in the Yellowstone River, said a few thousand barrels of oil had been observed.

A company spokesman confirmed the line was carrying Canadian Wabasca Heavy crude. That grade is a heavy bitumen crude diluted with lighter liquids to allow it to flow through pipelines, according to the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association (CEPA), which referred to Wabasca as "oil sands" in a report.

The Arkansas spill was the second incident this week where Canadian crude has spilled in the United States. On Wednesday, a train carrying Canadian crude derailed in Minnesota, spilling 15,000 gallons of oil.

Exxon expanded the Pegasus pipeline in 2009 to carry more Canadian crude from the Midwest to the Gulf Coast refining hub and installed what it called new "leak detection technology".

Exxon said federal, state and local officials were on site and the company said it was staging a response for a spill of more than 10,000 barrels "to be conservative". Clean-up crews had recovered approximately 4,500 barrels of oil and water.

"The air quality does not likely present a human health risk, with the exception of the high pooling areas, where clean-up crews are working with safety equipment," Exxon said in a statement.

U.S. media said the spill was in a subdivision. Mayflower city police said the oil had not reached Lake Conway nearby.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency categorized the rupture as a "major spill," Exxon said, and 22 homes were evacuated following the incident.

http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/news-general/20130331/US-EXXON-PIPELINE-SPILL/

Edited March 31, 2013 by The Patriot

[Pooky 3,844]

There will be a pipeline built somewhere. The Green lobby can not stop it. The question is will it head West, or South?

Economic factors will ensure that is is the Keystone XL pipeline.

[PalestineMyHeart 1,897]

Death knell

knell

/nel/

Noun

The sound of a bell, esp. when rung solemnly for a death or funeral.

Verb

(of a bell) Ring solemnly, esp. for a death or funeral.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Death knell

knell

/nel/

Noun

The sound of a bell, esp. when rung solemnly for a death or funeral.

Verb

(of a bell) Ring solemnly, esp. for a death or funeral.

Good to know. Also "Final nail in the coffin". I don't mind mixing metaphors.

[Pooky 3,844]

Death knell

knell

/nel/

Noun

The sound of a bell, esp. when rung solemnly for a death or funeral.

Verb

(of a bell) Ring solemnly, esp. for a death or funeral.

There will be a pipeline.

[PalestineMyHeart 1,897]

Good to know. Also "Final nail in the coffin". I don't mind mixing metaphors.

"You're singing to the choir !"

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

"You're singing to the choir !"

Edited March 31, 2013 by The Patriot

[Darnell 8,479]

a rupture is not a leak, so their leak detection gear was useless.

more on the order of an explosion, albeit a short one.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Death knell

knell

/nel/

Noun

The sound of a bell, esp. when rung solemnly for a death or funeral.

Verb

(of a bell) Ring solemnly, esp. for a death or funeral.

Clip/magazine...same thing. ####### did you expect?

Pipeline leaks are easier to fix than spilled oil from tankers taking the oil to China.

[PalestineMyHeart 1,897]

Clip/magazine...same thing. ####### did you expect?

Pipeline leaks are easier to fix than spilled oil from tankers taking the oil to China.

Can someone translate this, or explain what it has to do with the nail/knell tangent ?

[Pooky 3,844]

Can someone translate this, or explain what it has to do with the nail/knell tangent ?

Two tangents don't make a hypotenuse?

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Can someone translate this, or explain what it has to do with the nail/knell tangent ?

nm the people that understand...understand. The people that don't...don't need to. But thanks anyway.

Two tangents don't make a hypotenuse?

people that don't know the difference don't matter?

[PalestineMyHeart 1,897]

Two tangents don't make a hypotenuse?

More like a homonym (or near-homonym) is not the synonym of a synonym.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Can someone translate this, or explain what it has to do with the nail/knell tangent ?

Gun nutters are pedantic about esoteric things.

[^_^ 5,021]

Gary makes a good point though. Pipelines can explode/rupture/leak, tankers carrying oil can hit icebergs and leak.. there is no clean way to transport oil so as long as we're using it, what difference does it make if a pipeline ruptures? We're going to be cleaning that ####### up somewhere anyway.