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Pipeline leaks oil into Yellowstone river

Melensdad

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Crap.

http://www.outsideonline.com/news-f...k&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=facebookpost

Pipeline Leaks Oil into Yellowsrone River
As many as 50,000 gallons contaminate waterway

By: The Editors

The Poplar pipeline, a system near Glendive, Montana, sprung a leak Saturday, releasing crude oil into the Yellowstone River. Oil was spotted as far as 60 miles downriver from Glendive.

A statement from line operator Bridger Pipeline LLC says the leak began at 10 a.m. Saturday. The pipeline was shut down within an hour, but Bridger estimates that between 300 and 1,200 barrels (about 50,000 gallons) were released before the pipe was sealed. It is unclear how much of the spillage made it into the river.

The pipeline runs from the Canadian border to Baker, Montana, and crosses eight feet below the riverbed near Glendive, according to Reuters. ThinkProgress reports that some residents can smell or taste oil in their drinking water. The Environmental Protection Agency ran tests and brought in bottled water, and the city water plant has stopped drawing water from the river.

Tests of water samples collected by Montana’s Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) revealed elevated levels of volatile organic compounds, mostly benzene, a chemical also found in tobacco smoke. The levels are above those acceptable for long-term consumption, but scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told the DEQ that the water doesn’t pose a short-term public health hazard.

“We tested the water and at some taps we detected hydrocarbons,” Paul Peronard, on-scene coordinator for the EPA, told the Billings Gazette. Peronard also said that crews were trying to contain the oil farther downstream, but a layer of ice on the river was making it difficult.

This isn’t the first oil spill on the Yellowstone. In 2011, Exxon Mobil’s Silvertip pipeline ruptured under the river. It cost the company about $135 million to clean up, according to Yahoo News.
 

Melensdad

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Over all bad timing for this to happen!! Shit Happens!!!:sad:

Agreed. With Keystone XL somewhere between passing Congress and getting Vetoed by the White House, this is bad news.

BUT, the reality is that pipelines are far more ecological and suffer far fewer spillages than when oil is transported by railway.

So facts still support pipeline safety.
 

jask

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That is true but crude transported by rail has far less dilbit diluents, and those are the chemicals that will pose the greatest risk.
 

ki0ho

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That is true but crude transported by rail has far less dilbit diluents, and those are the chemicals that will pose the greatest risk.

I would like to see some info on this....sush as How the (dilbit diluents) are taken out of the crude prior to loading into rail cars.......and what do they do with them to store and dispose of them..........Please and is the lack of the(dilbit diluents) the reason for the high probability of explosion if one of the tank cars are ruptured? thanks........
 

mtntopper

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(dilbit diluents) Are added to the pipeline transportation and are not required in rail transport.

http://www.api.org/oil-and-natural-gas-overview/exploration-and-production/oil-sands/diluted-bitumenDiluted Bitumen

Background on Diluted Bitumen
One of the types of crude oil derived from the Canadian oil sands is bitumen, a heavy, sour oil. Bitumen would not flow through a pipeline efficiently, so it is mixed with diluents to be readied for pipeline transportation as diluted bitumen, or ‘dilbit.’ Diluents are usually natural gas condensate, naphtha or a mix of other light hydrocarbons.
 
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