Posted on Nov 6, 2016
This is the future of pipeline protests: How a tiny campout grew into a global movement and why...
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I am pro-pipeline but this pipeline did not get the permit nor permission from the American Indian tribes before the work started. Piss-poor(no) planning by the oil companies. I want progress but the Indians did not get to be included in decision making process. I guess it will go by railroad now.
This is the future of pipeline protests: How a tiny campout grew into a global movement and why...
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Oil and Energy
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Native Americans
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Edited 8 y ago
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Respectfully,
Putting all else aside consider this; To equal the daily capacity of this pipeline, you would need a train 2.25 miles long (using standard size tank cars). Over the road tanker trucks? You would need 1,975 trucks. That gives you some idea why a pipeline is the best option. There are 72,000 miles of crude pipelines in the US out of 2.4 million miles of pipelines transporting various products. A significant portion of those lines are from WW II and Cold War era, yet they are still giving good service. With newer technology and improved materials, modern pipelines are less likely than ever to have spills or problem.
I will point out one thing more. This pipeline is being laid at a depth of 90 feet in an already certified pipeline corridor. This was done in case there was any leak, it would occur below the level of the river bed. This precaution exceeds federal requirements and was done voluntarily by the builders.
Putting all else aside consider this; To equal the daily capacity of this pipeline, you would need a train 2.25 miles long (using standard size tank cars). Over the road tanker trucks? You would need 1,975 trucks. That gives you some idea why a pipeline is the best option. There are 72,000 miles of crude pipelines in the US out of 2.4 million miles of pipelines transporting various products. A significant portion of those lines are from WW II and Cold War era, yet they are still giving good service. With newer technology and improved materials, modern pipelines are less likely than ever to have spills or problem.
I will point out one thing more. This pipeline is being laid at a depth of 90 feet in an already certified pipeline corridor. This was done in case there was any leak, it would occur below the level of the river bed. This precaution exceeds federal requirements and was done voluntarily by the builders.
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LTC (Join to see)
Thank you for your specifics on that and with the environment understand is all the CO2 being generated by all those trucks and trains and the chances of spillage from those alternate and any fishing ways of transporting it but you have the environmentalists don't complain about the CO2 being given off by reservoirs to to rotting vegetation and it's not subject to a carbon tax.
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this is a travesty ... there are hundreds of pipelined... all they had to do, was to parallel an existing line ... it's not "Rocket Surgery ot Brain Science."...
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PO3 John Jeter
That's what they are doing more or less with the current route. They are using an already certified pipeline corridor determined to be geologically stable, easily accessible for maintenance and repairs, and a low population concentration.
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