Well I'm talking about sensors that can tell how much oil is flowing through the pipe. I don't know what "leak detection systems" they have in place, but anything worth shit won't miss 19 out of 20 leaks. Unless we're talking about a drip which obviously won't be detected when we're dealing with millions of gallons of oil or however much.
I don't know about oil pipeline but I have a natural gas pipeline across my land that was put in a couple of years ago. Their rep said the sensors monitor the pressure and if it drops, valves automatically shut off. That way only the contents of that section leak instead of the whole line.
I'm sure the oil pipeline has the same sensors & shut off valves.
Lmao @ trying to minimize this. As someone that has specifically cleaned up oil spills in the Dakota oil fields you have no idea what you're talking about. Crude oil is an absolute fucking mess. A single barrel is an absolute disaster to clean up. 18 tankers full is a metric fuck ton of oil to leak and clean up.'210k Gallons' sounds like alot more than '2,100 Barrels.'
Correction - Crude barrels are 42 gallons, not 100.
http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/barrel-bbl.html
Credit to @woodguyatl.
And I just looked up the capacity of these oil tanks being transported by commercial trucks on interstates -
- 11,600 gallons.
So the total amount of oil that was leaked was enough to fill 18.1 oil tanks.
Just another example of environmentalists trying to make a Mt Everest out of a mole hill.
Who'd you work for?
A tiny 5 man operation out of belfield called scuba Steve's
You couldn't pay me enough to be a roughneck.
Yeah, it wasn't enough. Dude had the lowest wages in the oil Field. The owner lived in a trailer at the shop, while he had a few million in the bank and paid us poorly.
I know Basin didn't pay their roughnecks shit either, but they didn't drug test. They were hard working sob's though. I watched one guy with a 48 puke with every rotation for 4 hours.
Its not like this leak occurred 30 years after the protests. We already have a leak, how many more will come? Easy for you to down play it when its not your home facing the disaster. When its others paying the price its not hard to be willing to take the risk.
I dont disagree with this but it is still frustrating because I am positive we could do better both with transport and with green and that it seems oil companies always get away with not having to pay for the messes they create and pay off the politicians that should be regulating them
The "not in my back yard" defense. I'm defeated.
I was mistaken about which pipeline this leak is from but the rest of my post stands. I don't think its up to the protesters to present the alternative if they have reasonable concerns which I think this leak shows they did.The "not in my back yard" defense. I'm defeated.
Are you aware of any viable alternatives presented by the protesters? I'm not. Hell, I'm not even downplaying the amount as 210 000 gallons of crude sound like a lot. Almost half the volume of an Olympic pool. I was also under the impression this leak didn't happen on the new section.
