An underground oil leak into a water supply could happen. If it did in a water reservoir the effects would be devastating. Such as in the case of the DAPL.
The state of Nebraska is going to study the concerns of the Keystone pipeline running through the state and decide whether or not the pipeline that carries Trans Canada -Canadian oil through their state is a benefit to the people of Nebraska and the state of Nebraska. ( I just had a five minute long crippling cramp in my leg. I moaned a lot. It feels like someone stabbed me with a Bowie knife and twisted it to the bone. Really, it hurts that bad. Afterwards I can barely get out of bed and walk.) So I'm deciding whether cramps would be good for the community, tribe, state, or myself?
Let's ask Kelsey!
He knows everything!!!!
Nebraska farmlands. Lakes. Rivers. ----- Do they need 250,000 gallons of toxic oil and by products spewed out onto their lands? Think about it....
America produces more oil and natural gas than anybody in the WORLD! IN THE WORLD! And we need to support toxic - poison - from a criminal act in Canada being run thorough our country to refineries that are backed up in production?
The truth is that we don't need Canadian oil from the bad and polluting, environmentally devastating TAR SANDS operations.
The devastation to the environment in Alberta is a thousand times larger than the SUPER FUND site in Oklahoma. (Think about it.) It is difficult for the mind to even comprehend that much destruction.)
Fraking is 500 times cleaner than tar sands. Although, a very damaging kind of fraking happens with toxic chemicals, at the Tar Sands site in Alberta.
Fraking tar sands is where a lot of the toxins come from. The oil that results from the Tar Sands operation isn't just normal oil. It has toxic soup mixed in with it.! Deadly to the environment! And poison to people, that could consume the toxins in drinking water. Deadly to animals that come in contact with it. ( They put scarecrows out by a place as big as Grand Lake in Oklahoma. ) That was supposed to help keep the birds out. Not funny!
The results of their efforts to protect the wildlife? .... A lot of dead wildlife.
We never needed the toxic soup from the Canadian operation to begin with. There was 30 BILLION known barrels of oil to be had with fraking operations in the U.S. And more... They knew the oil in the Permian Basin in western Texas was there in 1986. But TOXIC Canadian oil was plentiful and relatively cheap to acquire and refine as long as it was refined in the U.S.
Canadian oil was mainly for sales to other nations. ( That process didn't actually create many jobs in the U.S.) It just made a few super rich corporations a little bit richer.) An investors scheme. Buy low. Manipulate the supply, create demand and then sell high. A few devils got rich doing that, I'll bet!
Producing American oil in America produces jobs and grows the economy. We (America) has good clean oil that is obtained through techniques that are resulting in very little damage to the environment. We need to run more of those operations and create jobs in the process.
Canada is not complying with being environmentally friendly. The Keystone and DAPL pipelines should be discontinued in the United States.
If a 250,000 gallon toxic oil spill happened near Standing Rock it could pollute a water supply of millions of people and destroy a river basin for miles. It would take billions of dollars to restore the river if that happened. And for what?
The project could have been built across the river where the crossing was far narrower.
It would have been simple to build a bridge across the river and place the pipeline safely on it. To easily detect any spills. But they wanted to build it under a public water supply reservoir. Why would anybody want to do that, in the case of Standing Rock? !
Were they planning to pollute the river on purpose so they could sell bottled water? It all makes you wander what in the hell is going on?!
[[[ You can see in this picture that the original pipeline pathway was to the north of the Cannon Ball / Missouri River junction. The original pipeline would have crossed the river at a much narrower site. The area that it runs through also has tendencies to flood during heavy rains or snow melts. That would, in turn, carry spilled oil into the rivers. ]]] Not a good place for the pipeline.


images of Standing Rock Reservation- People- Protest