Keystone Pipeline Is Looking Worse Than Ever Now That the Midwest Is Prone to Massive Flooding


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massive flooding in the Great Plains not long ago came along with a particularly dangerous feature. The overflowing rivers carried huge chunks of ice downstream and these inland icebergs crashed and smashed everything in their path. Which got some of the locals to having even more serious doubts about the Keystone XL pipeline, the continent-spanning death funnel and conservative fetish object.

For example, what happens when the rivers flood again and one of the inland icebergs collides with some part of the pipeline that's above ground? From InsideClimateNews:

The Keya Paha flooded several weeks ago, and when it did, the rush of newly melted water drove debris, sand and huge chunks of ice deep inland, mowing down trees and depositing a long wall of ice 6 feet high and 30 feet wide across Allpress's property. "It would've taken out their shut-off valve," Allpress said of the river flooding. "Right where they propose to put it at. And it wouldn't have been a good thing."...
A former oil-field worker and avowed Republican, Allpress, like many local landowners, has long opposed the pipeline, which would pass through floodplains and erosion-prone land. Now, the catastrophic spring flooding that devastated parts of Nebraska has swept that threat into the spotlight, as the Trump administration works to fast-track construction by overriding environmental reviews.
The climate crisis, caused in large measure by the burning of substances like the poisonous glop that KXL is supposed to carry, has a role in the storms that cause the floods and, therefore, in the erosion caused by the floods, and the erosion causes problems with anything buried in the ground, like pipelines.

Without adequate environmental review, grave risks such as flooding and erosion "haven't been analyzed and the pipeline is going to go forward without agencies fully understanding risks and threats to the project," said Doug Hayes, a lawyer for the Sierra Club, which is a plaintiff in the suits. The threat to pipelines from erosion prompted the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, the federal regulator responsible for the safe operation of the country's energy pipelines, to issue an advisory two weeks ago to pipeline owners. It urged them to institute safeguards after a recent spate of accidents from soil shifting around pipelines. In the last decade, fast currents and high floodwaters exposed two pipelines in the Yellowstone River in Montana that both ruptured, leaking a total of about 93,000 gallons of oil.
And this is a problem that some folks saw coming.

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https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a27545714/keystone-xl-pipeline-flooding-midwest-icebergs/

Better than being transported by train or truck.

Except that it's not an above ground pipeline. Idiot.

A pumping station on the Keystone pipeline in Nebraska.

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Yeah I live in Nebraska you stupid fuck. I lost a good friend when the Spencer Dam on the Niobrara River collapsed. They are having a memorial service for him this weekend. And you know why? Because his body hasn't been found. So fuck you bitch. But I'm not surprised that a xxxx!! like you would try to use a natural disaster to push your MMCC bullshit.

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I'm not sure what your dead friend has to do with the article on environmental reviews for the pipeline stretch. 

I'm sure you don't. Which isn't surprising, you aren't really that smart to begin with.

but you can't say.   it seems to me that your using your supposed dead friend to dismiss information and to further your attempts to "troll the libs".

And you're trying to use the fake MMCC change bullshit for political purposes. And there is nothing "supposed" about it bitch
https://www.1011now.com/content/news/Family-still-searching-for-man-reported-missing-during-flooding-507856711.html (https://www.1011now.com/content/news/Family-still-searching-for-man-reported-missing-during-flooding-507856711.html)

so why are you using "your" friend  to dismiss information and to further your attempts to "troll the libs".

and you didn't say anything about what the death had to do with an article about environmental reports.

LMAO! you really aren't smart enough to play this game. But hey, gotta give you an A for effort. MMCC has nothing to do with what's going on in the Midwest, and you have no clue as to what precautions are taken for the few above ground elements of pipelines. And even in the area you reference, not a single above ground portion of a pipeline was damaged. And you know why? Because companies aren't stupid enough to put them in places where they are likely to be subjected to such flooding.

so it's a game with you?   using a dead "friend" is just part of your game?

LOL! You are a game, simply because you lack the ability to think for yourself. You're a perfect Liberal, just smart enough to repeat talking points, but not smart enough to realize that you are being used. The fact that you are trying to use a natural disaster to advance a strictly political agenda isn't a game to me.

Enjoy your evening. I have an early run tomorrow.

like you think for yourself?   hahahahahahaha.   you sure got over your "friends" death real quick and have moved on now to deflections.

wvit have you always been a common low life asshole?