Keystone pipeline springs leak in South Dakota

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(04-07-2016, 08:04 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Cute, but you do realize that is only .ooo727% of the 550,000 barrels that flow through that pipe each day, right?  Very tiny, as far as oil spills go.  I'd say that between the farmer that noticed the problem, and the company that took measures to remedy the issue, catastrophe was avoided.  Why all the false alarm over reactionness?

Primarily because the people who have their land commandeered to run these things through over their objections don't want any oil spilled on their ground.

It *might* be because the people responsible for the clean up tend to lie underestimate the damage done when (not if) the spills happen and then...I know this will be hard to believe....and then they don't live up to any promises made to said landowners.

That might be why people react to it.

So when they want to build a longer one...that will extend valuable water tables and land...people get kind of "alarmed" by it.