Why pipelines are a bad idea
A new analysis of oil and gas pipeline safety in the United States reveals a troubling history of spills, contamination, injuries and deaths.
Read more at NoKeystone.org
Source: This time-lapse video shows pipeline incidents from 1986 to 2013, relying on publicly available data from the federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration. Only incidents classified as “significant” by the agency are shown in the video. “Significant” incidents include those in which someone was hospitalized or killed, damages amounted to more than $50,000, more than 5 barrels of highly volatile substances or 50 barrels of other liquid were released, or where the liquid exploded or burned.
According to the data, since 1986 there have been nearly 8,000 incidents (nearly 300 per year on average), resulting in more than 500 deaths (red dots on the video), more than 2,300 injuries (yellow dots on the video), and nearly $7 billion in damage.
Since 1986 pipeline accidents have spilled an average of 76,000 barrels per year or more than 3 million gallons. This is equivalent to 200 barrels every day.
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Terrible. We need a moratorium on oil and gas pipelines, except repairs,
and we need much more frequent inspections, and stronger laws to protect
people and the environment.
Maybe the number of disastrous pipeline incidents in their states show why
texass and oklahoma send maniacs to the Senate.
What’s another 100 compared to the 8,000 shown here? :-(
Renewable sustainable energy? Well, it’s been developed and can be
used…the oil companies….prefer this way.
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This is all about money and propaganda regarding jobs. Educated people must
continue to help others understand the importance of protecting our natural
environment because ultimately this is what we are dependent upon.
We only have one planet, take care of our home for our children…
Well, this is a good argument. Very good show of reasoning and logic to
counter these facts. Yes, indeed.
Dangerous pipelines are not just limited to the US there is one in the UK
Most of the oil and gas we ship through pipelines does not go for our gas
consumption. It only goes to investors pockets. GET REAL!!
Electricity works for me. The collectors on my garage roof provide enough
free power for the house and the electric car.
I power my entire home’s energy needs and my Volt using the sun….
this is what the keystone pipeline proponents don’t want you to know.
Check out this video.
Every one of these spills were cleaned up and the pipelines were repaired.
Millions of barrels are carried in pipelines every day safely. Yesterday a
train carrying oil derailed in Eastern North Dakota then another train hit
it and ignited the oil in 10 cars. The oil spilled in an oil spill can be
cleaned up and most of it can still be refined and made into usable
petroleum products. The oil burning in the 10 cars will not be usable
after the fire is out, because it got BURNED UP!!!!!!
Obama, approve the KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE IMMEDIATELY OR PEOPLE WILL
DIE!!!!!!
Mr. Alpert obviously does not understand the concept of “the cycling of
matter”. All physical objects on earth such as oil don’t “go away” or get
“BURNED UP!!!”. When the oil burns the carbon molecules are converted to
carbon dioxide. Sulfur and other chemicals in the crude oil are converted
into sulfur dioxide and other gaseous pollutants. They travel through the
atmosphere where they cause harm to life forms both plants and animals –
including humans. The point of this video is to encourage energy sources
that don’t pollute. Oil that spills on the ground soaks in. If it is truly
“cleaned up” (Mr. Alpert’s words) then all the soil would have to be
removed and the oil separated from the soil particles. This process would
leave the ground that was exposed to the oil stripped down to the subsoil
or deeper. Life on this area of land would not return for hundreds or even
thousands of years. This is how long it takes nature to make soil from
subsoil (clay, etc.) or bedrock. The more likely scenario for a “clean up”
would be to scrape the polluted soil and incinerate it at another location.
Once again cycling the crude oil molecules along with the natural carbon
content of the soil, into the atmosphere. Remember, all matter is neither
created nor destroyed. It just keeps cycling through the environment.
See. Pipelines are so much safer in Canada. No incidents north of 49.
Lucky us or so the proponents would like us to believe.
Looks like my state, Maine, has the best record! I’m all for oil: it’s way
better than nuclear, and I’d rather it come from Canada than Iraq.
it’s the 21st century there is no reason to stay with oil and gas… do
people really think that fuel sources for transportation and heating
stopped with the discovery of oil and the combustion engine?? a better
safer cleaner planet is possible for future generations
Being a Canadian and watching this, I can say that these spills are
terrible. But if America doesn’t want this pipeline, I’m fine with that.
The alternatives to this is to build a pipeline through the Rockies to
British Columbia, and ship the oil to Asia for processing, or the more
likely option of building a pipeline to New Brunswick, and have it
processed there. This would create thousands of jobs in Atlantic Canada,
which is where I’m from, and keep more of the money from the Oil Sands
within Canada. So hey, if the the US doesn’t want our oil, that’s great!
I honestly don’t want the pipeline. I just want people to leave nature
alone. Didn’t they fucked up enough?
There are people who would burn down the whole world for a bigger piece of
pie. There are other people that will gladly help them do it for some
crumbs from that pie. Examples below –>
I suspect this not only covers pipelines but rail cars as well. In 2013
more oil was spilled from rail cars than the previous 37 years combined.
What the hell happened to Michigan?
“Obama’s real lasting legacy is not his Obama-care (ACA), but his complete
complicity with Big Oil and Gas in the volatile unreasonable poisoning of
our air, our water, and the unadulterated poisoning of the Citizens of the
USA with his uncensored endorsement of FRACKING Natural Gas (LNG) and Tar
sands oil distribution!!”
wow
so obama says no to send it through the states… and now its going to come
through canada thanks to harper?? can’t we just find an alternative… jeez
what is a natural gas incident?
This time-lapse makes all of America appear to be an EPA Superfund site.
something you didnt know about the empire which rules our world
you will see US citizens not getting their brain out of the trash bin and
still believing what they have made believe
if you keep sucking the oil endlessly out of the ground and not expect
problems eventually, earth quakes etc, by the time it starts to get really
bad its going to be to late folks, we should have stopped this years ago
Spills, contamination, injuries and deaths caused by oil pipelines. Let’s
switch to clean nuclear already.
Texas must be very slippery.
Til they figure out a way to transport fuels good luck. Trust me I have
worked around those things and they are protected some are even flown over
daily by small planes and patrolled constantly. I’ve done land surveys
where we had to cross and locate these on the plats we were making and we
were visited every time by the people whose job it is to safe-guard ’em.
“King of the Mountain” kills everyone else, and WINS!
USA USA!
XL Pipeline is the oil in the sand so to speak. If its given the OK –
there WILL be a revolution.
@ 1:04 Pipeline incidents since 1986 have resulted in around 8000 spills,
explosions and other incidents, over 500 deaths, over 2000 injuries and
have resulted in around $7 billion in property damage … what the video
doesn’t indicate, and really should have to connect the dots, is that the
oil industry has contributed billions towards the campaigns of almost every
sitting member of Congress and to all presidents since before this 1986
counter began … we have ready alternatives to oil and gas ~ specifically
Thorium fission molten salt reactors, solar reflector power plants and
fields of wind turbines, and have the potential for creating a distributed
energy grid using roof mounted solar voltaic panels and mini helix wind
turbines … until we get the money out of politics, its not likely this
entrenched corruption will change things for the better …
https://movetoamend.org + https://represent.us + http://www.wolf-pac.com
???”We’ve invested a lot of money, time and resources to ensure that we’re
using the best available technology to operate our pipelines with the
utmost integrity,”??? Pipelines may be better than railcars but are still
worse than nothing!
Read more: Sunken Great Lakes oil pipeline raises spill fears – The Denver
Post
http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_25263682/sunken-great-lakes-oil-pipeline-raises-spill-fears#ixzz2uuwDdb4I
*UTAH TAR SANDS RESISTANCE* http://www.tarsandsresist.org/
Learn more: *A Canadian Company Is About To Become One Of The First To
Extract U.S. Tar Sands Oil.*
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/02/17/3298671/america-tar-sands/#
If Keystone isn’t built, the oil is going to be transported by rail. Rail
is a much more dangerous means of transporting oil and much more carbon
intensive.
But perhaps you’d prefer your town end up like Lac-Mégantic, Quebec (47
dead).
I would like to post this on, Coloradans for Responsible Energy, site.
Pro oil group.
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