Massive Oil Spill in Yellowstone River Contaminates Drinking Water

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/e...ellowstone-river-contaminates-drinking-water/

40,000 gallons of oil spills into the yellowstone river. Yet another example that it's not if a pipeline leaks. It's when. We should not be putting a pipeline through one of our largest source of fresh drinking water! This is why I support Obama's keystone veto threat. The few thousand jobs it will create (almost all of which temporary) is not worth the potential damage!

 

It's not if a car will crash, it's when.
It's not if a plane will crash, it's when.
It's not if people will electrocuted, it's when.
It's not if a gas leak will blow up a house, it's when.
It's not if Muslims will attack, it's when.

Should we do away with everything that might harm us some day?

 

None of those things can cause massive irreversible damage to our water supply.

 

If I've said it once I'll say it a thousand times, the right could care less. Once the pipeline is complete, the job numbers will be down to a trickle. This is all right-wing politics for their donors. Nothing more! It's pathetic!

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Prime example that they have zero argument for this pipeline, with his ridiculous counter argument. What a joke.

 

is this a private pipeline like the keystone pipeline, will the tax payers get stuck with the bill for the cleanup?

 

But your argument against it is that it's OK for other countries to have a possible oil leak so you can get your gas as long as it's not here. I thought we were all global citizens, you know, my oil leak is your oil leak and so on. have you ever thought that, even though accidents will happen, they're less likely to happen here because of all the regulations we have? But with XL being killed the pipeline will now move to Canada where we have no control over the safety and environmental standards they'll employ.

 

nevermind the fact that this private FOREIGN corporation is being allowed to use eminent domain to FORCE American landowners to sell their property.

what kind of bull(*)(*)(*)(*) is this???

 

Irreversible? That's total and absolute BS.

 

Ah yes, the other topic about oil that the right would rather not talk about but use as a last resort to find an excuse to pump dirty oil here, while contaminating our water. News flash; without potable drinking water, oil is as useless as .... on a .. hog. I'm for doing away with oil all together and reverting to alternate fuels. Nothing is worth going without pure drinking water.

 

I'm assuming you don't use, buy, or own any of the following products that are made from petroleum...

A partial list of products made from Petroleum (144 of 6000 items)

 

In exchange for guaranteed oil-free drinking water, are you will to exchange your car for a horse? Are you willing to wait two days for the Maytag repairman and his donkey cart to get there instead of an hour?

 

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Would you prefer the short answer or the long one? How about I give you the short one; YES.

 

What exactly does that have to do with anything? Just because I buy oil doesn't mean I have any interest in building a pipeline for oil companies.

 

1. 40,000 gallons is not a "massive oil spill".
2. The damage is not "irreversible".
3. More oil spills out of Obama's buddy Buffet's train cars than pipelines.
4. I like how PBS ignores all the oil spilled out of train cars and blasts this story out... what a joke of a news organization. It's propaganda for "Willing Idiots" to repeat.

 

Transporting oil via rail is so much safer!

 

My opposition to the pipeline is for that reason alone. I don't even care it's a foreign company. Stealing peoples land for profit just shows individual citizens do not own their land. We just rent it from the govt till it decides it has a better use.

 

LOL silly libs. Who cares about drinking water? Just drink a soda instead or something.

 

The pipeline was 6 feet underground in 2011 when it was last checked, yet somehow, it is now uncovered and has a hole in it?

I'm assuming we will probably never find out why it is leaking.

 

We've had miles of pipeline running through our nation for decades. BTW, will you be giving up your car anytime soon?

 

This is the second time in the past 3-4 years and they haven't completely cleaned up the first spill.

 

There are three ways to transport oil from the oil fields to the refinery; 1) by pipeline, 2) by train, or 3) by truck.

The cheapest is by pipeline, then by train, and lastly by truck.

And any of those methods of transportation can result in an oil spill.

So, what exactly are you trying to say with your thread?????

 

Scumbag-in-Chief and his flying monkey minions have attempted to take credit for the oil boom and lower pump prices.

They damn well better own this spill, eh?

 

One just needs to raise the requirements on these pipelines and how they are constructed. The pipeline that leaked was last serviced in the 1970's ! 40 + years ago ! Regular maintenance will increase jobs and decrease spill chances...while also taking thousands of back and forth truck visits to transport oil....which will further lead to less damage being done to our highway system because it will have less trucks on it. Win-Win.

 

There is not possible to cause "irreversible' damage to our water supply with oil. The dems have made the oil companies add some chemicals to gasoline that are hard to get out of water but crude oil can be removed from water.

 

Good to know you are in favor of trucks and trains spewing tons of C02 into the atmosphere to move that oil instead. Of course, those trucks and trains NEVER spill a drop of oil, either.