Where is that oil from Keystone going?

overgrowem

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I tried to post this on this thread but it somehow was posted in another thread. Maybe I was just too stoned:

This is all political bs.

The Keystone XL is the proposed pipeline. There already is a Keystone pipeline. As for the Oglala Aquifer, that's bs too. There are already hundreds of miles of pipelines of all different kinds running over it.




I'd also like to add that as you can see, the Keystone pipeline ALREADY goes over the aquifer.
And every thing they carry can be cleaned up.What's Ur approach to cleaning up a Tar Sands Oil spill???
 

Grandpapy

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Think molecules not tank cars. Ever drive up a long grade in the summer time behind a lot of cars and smell sulfur. That "gas" made it from the well, to the lac unit, rail head, refinery, retail outlet and now out your exhaust.

Dilution is not the solution.
 

ginwilly

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Can you prove that any of these were done on purpose by directive of one of the Koch brothers? Or were these unintentional accidents?

If BNSF has a train crash and spills oil, do we all get to point the finger at the Oracle of Omaha (if you know who that is) and blame him personally for it?
That depends on his politics doesn't it?
 

Antidisestablishmentarian

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And every thing they carry can be cleaned up.What's Ur approach to cleaning up a Tar Sands Oil spill???
I don't have one as I don't deal with that particular environmental issue at work, but I'm sure it can be cleaned.


You may like the environment, or even love it, but I sample it, I analyze it, and then figure out how to clean it all up without exposing other people and the environment to more harm. I have no problems with the Keystone XL, nuclear power, etc. I'm not the nimby type.
 

ChesusRice

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And every thing they carry can be cleaned up.What's Ur approach to cleaning up a Tar Sands Oil spill???
The aquifer is underground. How you going to clean it up?
Tar sands clean up is packing the dirt up and either processing it or dumping it into a lined pit. What are you going to do with a gigantic lake of freshwater that covers thousands of square miles under 3 states that is up to 1000 feet deep?
 

Antidisestablishmentarian

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The aquifer is underground. How you going to clean it up?
Tar sands clean up is packing the dirt up and either processing it or dumping it into a lined pit. What are you going to do with a gigantic lake of freshwater that covers thousands of square miles under 3 states that is up to 1000 feet deep?
What are they doing now? There are already pipelines running over it including Keystone.
 

overgrowem

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The aquifer is underground. How you going to clean it up?
Tar sands clean up is packing the dirt up and either processing it or dumping it into a lined pit. What are you going to do with a gigantic lake of freshwater that covers thousands of square miles under 3 states that is up to 1000 feet deep?
Yes I should have said mitigated not cleaned up.
 
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