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    We need to hurry up the Keystone pipeline

    Before more of these incidents happen and give people pause. Those darn environmentalists are going to try to use this to block badly needed oil company profits.

    BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A second large oil spill into Montana's Yellowstone River in less than four years is reviving questions about oversight of the nation's aging pipeline network.

    Investigators and company officials on Wednesday were trying to determine the cause of the 40,000-gallon spill that contaminated downstream water supplies in the city of Glendive.
    Oil spill into Yellowstone River renews concerns about pipeline safety.

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    And this was reported just yesterday:





    Nearly 3M Gallons of Brine Spill; ND Oil Boom's Largest Leak



    Nearly 3 million gallons of saltwater generated by oil drilling have leaked from a North Dakota pipeline, an official said Wednesday, the largest such spill since the state's current oil boom began and nearly three times worse than previous record spills. Two creeks have been affected, but the full environmental effect might not be clear for months.


    Operator Summit Midstream Partners LLC detected the pipeline spill on Jan. 6, about 15 miles north of Williston and told health officials then. Officials say they weren't given a full account of the size until Tuesday



    ... The new spill is almost three times larger than one that fouled a portion of the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in July. Another million-gallon saltwater spill in 2006, near Alexander, is still being cleaned up nearly a decade later.



    ...North Dakota has suffered scores of saltwater spills since the state's oil boom began in earnest in 2006.


    A network of saltwater pipelines extends to hundreds of disposal wells in the western part of the state, where the briny water is pumped underground for permanent storage. Legislation to mandate flow meters and cutoff switches on saltwater pipelines was overwhelmingly rejected in the Legislature in 2013.


    http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/o...clear-28388280

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    So nogods, you agree that a non american/american companies should have the right to sieze property from nearly 100 land owners in nebraska?

    Kinda makes property rights a laughable exercise

    http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-...120-story.html

    ansCanada Corp., the Canadian company behind the Keystone XL pipeline, filed eminent domain proceedings against an estimated 90 Nebraska landowners Tuesday to secure the right to build the controversial project across their property.

    “Today we initiated these actions in the state of Nebraska, but that does not mean we’re done working toward a voluntary agreement,” said Andrew Craig, TransCanada’s land manager for Keystone projects. “Our goal today is that, over the next six months, we are able to address any concerns they have about the project.... The current landowner will continue to own the land.”
    TransCanada’s legal filings are an effort to gain what is called an easement — the right to construct the pipeline on private land that others own. They are the latest step in a years-long fight over the project, which cannot go forward without President Obama’s approval.So now the president has the right to force land owners to allow a international company to build on their land? When did the president become god?

    The $5.3-billion project would carry oil from the tar sands of Canada through the nation’s heartland and, after connecting with existing segments, to the Gulf Coast. Much of the oil would be exported.

    so at the end of the day what this ultimately comes down to, is that international corporations and their profits are more important than Americans property rights.
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    Quote Originally Posted by FMD View Post
    So nogods, you agree that a non american/american companies should have the right to sieze property from nearly 100 land owners in nebraska?.
    Trouble with sarcasm?

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    Quote Originally Posted by FMD View Post
    So nogods, you agree that a non american/american companies should have the right to sieze property from nearly 100 land owners in nebraska?

    Kinda makes property rights a laughable exercise

    http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-...120-story.html

    so at the end of the day what this ultimately comes down to, is that international corporations and their profits are more important than Americans property rights.

    *facepalm*

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    Cool

    Kinda makes property rights a laughable exercise


    FMD View Post : "so at the end of the day what this ultimately comes down to, is that international corporations and their profits are more important than Americans property rights." -- --
    #Dems play musical chairs + patronage and nepotism = entitlement !

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