President Donald Trump wants to revive Keystone XL, a highly controversial extension of the tar sands pipeline system, despite three massive leaks over the past eight years.
To put this number in context: I live about a mile from a gas station where the driver of a gasoline truck with a capacity of 8000 gallons decided to dump 4700 of those gallons into a ditch behind the station because he felt like going home and didn’t want to go on to the other stations he was scheduled to deliver it to. For bonus points, this ditch was between the gas station and an elementary school.
So not to excuse this, but 3500 gallons is not quite Exxon Valdez or Deepwater Horizon territory.
They don’t say how big the spill was
3500 gal. (13,250 liters)Edit: either I fucked up or the AP updated. 3500 barrels of oil. 147000 gallons (556,455L)
https://apnews.com/article/keystone-oil-pipeline-north-dakota-spill-36e86142566763a5464e1dd132eede56
To put this number in context: I live about a mile from a gas station where the driver of a gasoline truck with a capacity of 8000 gallons decided to dump 4700 of those gallons into a ditch behind the station because he felt like going home and didn’t want to go on to the other stations he was scheduled to deliver it to. For bonus points, this ditch was between the gas station and an elementary school.
So not to excuse this, but 3500 gallons is not quite Exxon Valdez or Deepwater Horizon territory.
Whoops: either I fucked up or the AP updated. 3500 barrels of oil. 147,000 gallons (556,455L)
Just under a quarter of an Olympic pool.
OK that’s a bit more than my local idiot (who went to jail for it, BTW - unlike any oil company executives, ever).