Last March, having been in office for one month, President Donald Trump announced that his administration had approved the Keystone XL pipeline.
It was yet another reversal of an Obama administration decision, in this case the one that had blocked that project.
His State Department had issued a permit to TransCanada, and later that day in the Oval Office, Trump announced his approval of the Canadian company’s completing construction on the pipeline to move crude oil from Canada to refineries on the Gulf Coast.
“It’s a great day for jobs and energy independence,” Trump said, and h intoned that the pipeline was “the greatest technology known to man or woman.”
The pipeline would be the “first of many” energy projects his administration would approve.
Environmental groups oppose the pipeline because it pumps crude oil from oil sands whose extraction produces about 17% more greenhouse gases than standard crude oil extraction, and because it would cut across the Ogallala Aquifer, one of the world’s largest underground deposits of fresh water.
But any fear of any leaks can be easily dismissed when it comes to “the greatest technology known to man or woman.”
Right?
Okay, maybe, but this week 210,000 gallons of oil leaked from the existing Keystone Pipeline in South Dakota. The pipeline is owned by TransCanada, and the leak is the largest Keystone oil spill to date in South Dakota
The timing of this may be important as Nebraska officials will soon announce a decision on whether the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline can move forward through their state.
Back in April 2016, there was also a 16,800 gallon leak in South Dakota that took two months to stop and clean up.
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The environmentalists’ concern about these pipelines may not just be all that absurd as the latest leak is in a below-ground pipeline, and it will be a few days before they can excavate and get in borings to see if there is groundwater contamination.
The Keystone Pipeline system stretches more than 2,600 miles, from Hardisty, Alberta, east into Manitoba, and then south to Texas.
The route of the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline would stretch from Hardisty, Alberta, to Steele City, Nebraska, cutting first through Montana and South Dakota.
The spill occurred in the same county as Lake Traverse Reservation, and, although not on Sioux property, is adjacent to it. According to Dave Flute, tribal chairman for Sisseton Wahpeton Sioux Tribe, that land has historical value.
“We want to know how long is it going to take to dig this plume of contaminated soil and how can we be reassured, without a doubt, that it has not and will not seep into the aquifer,” he said.
Complicating things and worrying people is the fact that tar sands oil which will be flowing through the XL Pipeline is much thicker and stickier than traditional oil, and this will complicate cleanup efforts because, in order for this type of oil to flow through the pipes. it needs to be combined with other hazardous materials which get mixed in with the spilling oil.
But, again, since these pipes are “the greatest technology known to man or woman”, there should be no problem.