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Standing Rock Sioux Chairman responds to Keystone Pipeline permit approval
Cannon Ball, N.D., March 24, 2017 —Today, President Trump announced that the State Department has issued the final permit necessary to proceed with the Keystone Pipeline. On his second day in office, this President made it his priority to push through two controversial pipelines. The Dakota Access and Keystone lines are dangerous, and were previously halted due to their risks to public safety. Today the battle against Keystone begins again.
“Once again, the treaty lands of the Great Sioux Nation are threatened by Keystone—a perilous pipeline. President Trump has described the proposed pipeline as ‘the greatest technology known to man or woman.’ If that is the case, then I would encourage him to do some research and look at the number of oil spills we’ve experienced throughout this country, the levels of water pollution, and the science behind climate change. This is not the way of the future,” said Chairman Dave Archambault II.
The $8 Billion-dollar Keystone pipeline was previously rejected in 2015, citing negative impacts to energy security, failure to benefit American consumers, threats to climate change, and also an utter lack of sustainable benefit to the economy. Despite the economic arguments used to propel these pipelines forward, less than 50 permanent jobs would be created.
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe will stand with the many tribes threatened by the Keystone XL pipeline. As the Chairman states, “We opposed Keystone before, and we’ll oppose it again. We’ve seen how the sentiment and worldwide support grew with the ongoing Dakota Access Pipeline battle. While we continue to fight DAPL in court, we will oppose Keystone on all fronts as well. We hope that everyone around the world who stood with Standing Rock on DAPL will continue to stand with us and all the tribes as we continue to fight these dangerous and short-sighted infrastructure projects that serve only the interests of billionaires.”
http://standwithstandingrock.net/standing-rock-sioux-chairman-responds-keystone-pipeline-permit-approval/
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe
http://standwithstandingrock.net/
The $8 Billion-dollar Keystone pipeline was previously rejected in 2015, citing negative impacts to energy security, failure to benefit American consumers, threats to climate change, and also an utter lack of sustainable benefit to the economy. Despite the economic arguments used to propel these pipelines forward, less than 50 permanent jobs would be created.
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe will stand with the many tribes threatened by the Keystone XL pipeline. As the Chairman states, “We opposed Keystone before, and we’ll oppose it again. We’ve seen how the sentiment and worldwide support grew with the ongoing Dakota Access Pipeline battle. While we continue to fight DAPL in court, we will oppose Keystone on all fronts as well. We hope that everyone around the world who stood with Standing Rock on DAPL will continue to stand with us and all the tribes as we continue to fight these dangerous and short-sighted infrastructure projects that serve only the interests of billionaires.”
http://standwithstandingrock.net/standing-rock-sioux-chairman-responds-keystone-pipeline-permit-approval/
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe
http://standwithstandingrock.net/
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We should all be concerned about petroleum product pipelines. You can glean the facts at wikipedia.org List of pipeline accidents in the US in the 21st century. Wikipedia had over 600 footnotes for its references by the way. They quote news releases, some legal documents and other public data sources.
Since the year 2000 there have been over 400 petroleum pipeline "accidents". During the year 2000 alone, oil and gas pipeline leaks caused 13 fatalities and a total approximate oil loss of 1,236,000 gallons. The cost of that much liquid petrolem at 2000 prices would be close to 40 million dollars.
The heavy petroleum or "dilbit" as it is sometimes called which would flow through the Keystone and DAPL pipelines must be diluted with a solvent like naptha and then pumped through the pipe at pressures up to 1400 psi. Besides the risks of high pressure in the pipes themselves, naptha has to be shipped to the oil shipping site by rail or road transport and naptha is very flammable and can explode under the right conditions which only adds to the risks involved in these sorts of heavy crude operations. Safety shutoff stations can be as far as 20 miles apart and there have many instances in which pressure censors have malfunctioned causing costly delays in stopping oil leaks.
The public deserves to know the facts but you will probable not hear much from mainstream media about the real risks of oil transport. You have to dig for the facts. Another reference to check out is the work of Dr. John Stanbury at the College of Engineering at the University of Nebraska. The URL is watercenter.unl.edu/downloads/2011-Worst-case-Keystone-spills-report.pdf .
Be pro-active. Get the facts and let others know-especially republican congress people.
Since the year 2000 there have been over 400 petroleum pipeline "accidents". During the year 2000 alone, oil and gas pipeline leaks caused 13 fatalities and a total approximate oil loss of 1,236,000 gallons. The cost of that much liquid petrolem at 2000 prices would be close to 40 million dollars.
The heavy petroleum or "dilbit" as it is sometimes called which would flow through the Keystone and DAPL pipelines must be diluted with a solvent like naptha and then pumped through the pipe at pressures up to 1400 psi. Besides the risks of high pressure in the pipes themselves, naptha has to be shipped to the oil shipping site by rail or road transport and naptha is very flammable and can explode under the right conditions which only adds to the risks involved in these sorts of heavy crude operations. Safety shutoff stations can be as far as 20 miles apart and there have many instances in which pressure censors have malfunctioned causing costly delays in stopping oil leaks.
The public deserves to know the facts but you will probable not hear much from mainstream media about the real risks of oil transport. You have to dig for the facts. Another reference to check out is the work of Dr. John Stanbury at the College of Engineering at the University of Nebraska. The URL is watercenter.unl.edu/downloads/2011-Worst-case-Keystone-spills-report.pdf .
Be pro-active. Get the facts and let others know-especially republican congress people.
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