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Sanity -> RE: 60 Million gallons of gas to be released (7/4/2011 10:13:31 AM)
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Follow the thread back, my argument is that the mere act of drilling for oil does not "destroy the environment forever" as you claimed. My argument has been that we need affordable energy and that environmental concerns arent casually disregarded as you would like us to believe.
From the Wall Street Journal this morning:
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Exxon said ongoing air-quality tests haven't detected any danger to public health. No reports of damage to water quality in municipal water systems have been received, according to the company. There are no indications that oil is still leaking out of the line, Mr. Pruessing said.
The leak stemmed from a 12-inch Silvertip crude-oil pipeline that runs from Silver Tip, Mont., to Billings, and usually moves about 40,000 barrels of oil a day. The incident comes amid heightened concerns about pipeline safety stemming from natural-gas pipeline explosions across the U.S., and from a major spill in July 2010, in which 20,000 barrels of oil escaped from an Enbridge Energy Partnersp LP pipeline in Michigan. The cause of the spill remains a mystery.
Exxon said its pipeline met "all regulatory requirements" and was inspected in December. The U.S. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration audited the pipeline's integrity management program in June, Exxon added.
In May, Exxon briefly shut down the pipeline, which is buried under the Yellowstone riverbed, because it was concerned about heavy rains occurring at the time, Mr. Pruessing said. In 2009, the company had run a "smart pig"--a cylinder-like robot that travels through the length of a pipeline looking for indications of weakness—and found no issues, Mr. Pruessing said. "This is a very unusual event."
On Saturday, an official with the state said that while no reason for the spill has been found, floods affecting the region could have played a part in the incident.
Exxon is bringing crews from across the country for the cleanup effort. "We will stay with the cleanup until it is complete, and we sincerely apologize to the people of Montana for any inconvenience the incident is creating," Mr. Pruessing said in a statement.
The Silvertip crude-oil pipeline originates in the Wyoming-Montana border and delivers oil to Exxon's 60,000 barrel-a-day Billings refinery, which sits adjacent to the Yellowstone River.
The facility processes crude oil from Wyoming and Alberta, Canada, into gasoline and ultra-low-sulfur diesel fuel, according to Exxon's website.
In other words everything that can be done (while still maintaining the flow of affordable fuel) was done to prevent this, the company had acted in a very responsible manner, and no costs are being spared in the cleanup effort.
Leftist environmental extremist policies would cause people to starve by the millions, quite literally. They would throw the entire worlds economy into chaos...
This is the kind of thread that makes me laugh whenever some ignorant poster tries to claim that the left is not against affordable energy, especially carbon fuels recovery
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