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Voting records of the county the spill occurred in.
Those same elected officials promoting legislation for the Keystone pipeline:
https://www.marshall.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/sen-marshall-introduces-bill-to-save-keystone-jobs/
https://hutchpost.com/posts/8941fea6-283b-404c-81b9-f0a75f6fc73a
One could hope a lesson is learned here...but I doubt it.
SF500
Everything will be dead along that river for yrs
RoombaTheAssaultVacuum
Thanks Republicans. You won't reply to this because you're pussies.
twistplusfriends
We are a plague
dudehiemer
Cast stupid votes, win stupid prizes. They got free oil though, so I reckon its a win, win for them, while a lose for everyone else.
thaGh0stD0g36
If only they had representatives in Congress or an EPA that wasnt gutted like a fish.
Viking365
If only there was a way to prevent this. Jee
RabidCharcuterie
Devastating
forensicfilesbestofseason1
They voted for it
BORGALOOGIE
GANZTALISHUZ
Yes, but have you heard about Hunter Biden's laptop and the 'open' border? Stay focused on the real issues
kalmslaite
I used to conduct oil % tests when enbridge had a local river spill. 5+ yrs on was still constant tests that failed all epa standards
gordy77
Visible or by some distillation?
stargrey
It's all fine because some billionaire made money from it.
DarkTheme439
Don't worry. It will trickle down.
atinyviolin
There should be a protest at their hq in Calgary. Maybe spill a few barrels of tar in their lobby.
georgedragonslayer
“You want to watch the world burn?" - "Let me guess, you'll set it on fire?" I ask. - He chuckles, the sound vibrating through me 1/2
georgedragonslayer
settling into my bones. - "No, darling. I'll hand you the match, and stand at your back, watching you become queen of the ashes.”
PleaseRespectMyAsshole
There's a reason people in my state (Nebraska) have been opposing this for years. We knew this was going to happen.
EllisHobbs
And the RepubliKKKlans HOWLED when Biden canceled Keystone XL...
ThisIsYourLifeNow
3smagic
Earth isn't infinite in it's resources, but our disrespect of it is. What we won't get until it's all unusable, is we disrespected ourselves
3smagic
>Our leaders make decisions based on $, not the long term effects to us. We seem to be determined to make the earth an unlivable hell-scape.
DrenLithear
Well they voted to fuck themselves over.
Kottok
Fuck roger marshall.
BunnyGoesHopHop
One of the largest underground fresh water aquifers is right under Nebraska/Kansas, the Ogalala. Keep an eye on it, so many depend on it.
Frederf
Yes they can clean it up. It's just "not in the budget." Make them clean it up until it's clean or it bankrupts the company.
MasunAttek
I prefer forceful nationalisation.
gordy77
You can't clean something without making something else dirty.
StarmineRendezvous
Can't wait till oil goes the way of the Dodo.
GadenKerensky
We HAVE oil because things went the way of the Dodo.
atowa
I doubt it will ever fully go away. But hopefully to the point where we don't have any need for pipelines like this.
Cheomesh
It never will.
DJOldguy
YOu know how these thing always jump up and bite ppl on the ass, in this case, Biden is gonna be blamed for it, wait and see.
CorrugatedUrethra1995
For sure. They'll spin is as him letting the old pipeline fall into disrepair by not approving the new one.
imoutofnames
When this news broke. I was seeing a ton of conservatives say "this smells of environmental sabotage" basically implying it didn't leak(1)
imoutofnames
Naturally but was aabotaged by environmentalists to prove it is bad.... there is literally no saving these kinds of people. Everything(2)
imoutofnames
They don't like is some conspiracy...
CGWN
It definitely doesn't have anything to do with this line having a disproportionately high leak rate because of the heat and pressure it uses
CGWN
Nope, why would that be related? Let's build another one, but put it underground and next to the biggest aquifer in the United States.
PutThePRNDLinD
Notice that most of the local races are uncontested. That's fucking sad.
addAndy
My county (farther west state) voted something like 88% R, 5% Kanye, 4% D, 3% third party in the presidential /1
addAndy
90% of our local “races” are either incumbent R, incoming R, or no contest R
newsguycraigevans
I live in the largest state in the city. I have been to that county. They have been trained by fox "news" and years of GQP lies to believe
newsguycraigevans
that all Dems are socialist, and socialism is communism, and communism is the most vile of evils. I am not joking.
KevininPHX
I remember hearing that leaks were impossible from this pipeline. I thought at the time, it was an amazingly bold lie.
SIGMA920
Anyone telling you that was lying to you. It's still better than if any other method when it comes to how much is spilled and you're only
SIGMA920
seeing this hit the news because it's one major incident rather than many small ones.
CGWN
This is at least the twenty-second leak the line has had. They pride themselves that most are small, but the previous one was 380k gallons.
SIGMA920
That still doesn't change my point. Shit happens and what matters is that you minimize the damage.
FiftyShadesOfCauliflower
You minimize the damage by rapidly phasing out fossil fuels, starting back in the 1980s. We sadly missed the train on that one, so now ...
BastardMan1977
LariCheltsy
FuturamaReferences
Trunkmonkay
Trump put Dakota Access Pipeline through, not the Keystone that's been there since the Obama administration. Not defending Trump, just think
FiftyShadesOfCauliflower
The Keystone pipeline was approved by the Bush administration back in 2008. Obama blocked the Keystone XL pipeline from moving forward.
Trunkmonkay
We should only criticize him for things he's actually responsible for.
Trunkmonkay
50shadesofbroccoli muted me, so to correct him; the original Keystone was under construction for 2yrs during the Obama admin, where at any
Trunkmonkay
Point Obama could have pulled the permit for it just like Biden did for the XL. The XL is not a commissioned pipeline and not the pipeline
Trunkmonkay
That leaked, so bringing up the XL is a non sequitur
PitoVerdeDeHULK
we usually scrape all the affected area off hauling contaminated dirt to a treatment zone and replacing it with fresh soil
SoundFuture
Can we also say it's pretty neato that they can limit the spill to less than 1/4 of 1% for the day?
PitoVerdeDeHULK
A lot of people don’t know but the pipes that rupture is due to the material that is traveling inside and their pipes from the 30s to 40s
SoundFuture
It's both. The material itself slowly eats away at the pipeline but so does the soil. Oxygen and electrolytes love to chew on pipes.
Freyja33
Remember when they beat/arrested/terrorized native peoples whose land this went through for demonstrating against it for this exact reason
corndude101
Wit, you’re saying preppie predicted this‽ No way… that’s fake news!
SuperSaiyanYamcha
If you’re talking about ND, the land was sold by the tribe in the 90’s to a farmer. The farmer then sold the land to the company. Once the
SuperSaiyanYamcha
Lakota heard about the sale they tried to say that the land was still theirs and couldn’t be used for the project. When that didn’t work
SuperSaiyanYamcha
the tribe claimed it would cause undue environmental harm; despite them approving a pipeline on their land previously. I posted a long
SuperSaiyanYamcha
thread about this exact thing when it happened. Got downvoted last time, even after posting links to original transfers and maps showing the
SuperSaiyanYamcha
original pipeline and the proposed XL line.