11/17 News Roundup – Keystone Leaks 200k Gallons Of Oil In South Dakota, Dems Are Doomed Unless They Start Listening to Millennials & More
As Predicted—Because ‘Pipelines Are Bound to Spill’—Existing Keystone Gushes 200K Gallons of Oil
Some of the worst fears and dire predictions of opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline came true on Thursday when pipeline owner TransCanada announced that more than 200,000 gallons of oil had spilled from the existing portion of the Keystone system in Marshall County, South Dakota.
While the company reported the spill in a public statement, Buzzfeed notes there was an approximately four-and-a-half hour gap between when the company said the breach was discovered at 6:00 am and when local officials say they were notified at 10:30 am. As a South Dakota Department of Environment and Natural Resources told the news outlet, “We’re not quite sure why there was a time gap in there.”
Outside of the company’s statement, there has been no outside or independent verification of the size of the spill or details about the scale of the possible damage.
Those who had warned against the pipeline’s approval for precisely these reasons and continue to work tirelessly to prevent the construction of the Keystone XL (KXL) project, were among the first to respond to Thursday’s spill.
“With their horrible safety record, today’s spill is just the latest tragedy caused by the irresponsible oil company TransCanada,” said Ben Schreiber, senior political strategist at Friends of the Earth. “We cannot let the world’s fossil fuel empires continue to drive government policy toward climate catastrophe. The only safe solution for oil and fossil fuels is to keep them in the ground.”
Rachel Rye Butler, an anti-tarsands campaigner with Greenpeace, noted that Thursday’s spill comes just days before the Nebraska Public Service Commission is set to decide on state approval for Keystone XL, which was ultimately rejected under President Obama but given a greenlight earlier this year by the Trump administration. “The writing on the wall to reject this pipeline could not be more clear,” Butler said in a statement. “These pipelines are bound to spill, and they put communities, precious drinking water, and our climate at risk.”
While we do not need more evidence to show us that pipelines are dangerous and must be stopped, more keeps coming. https://t.co/8PelLe6fLb
— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) November 16, 2017
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Keystone pipeline leak days before Nebraska expansion ruling
Keystone Pipeline Leaks 210,000 Gallons of Oil in South Dakota
Let me guess TransCanada will determine it was sabotage of some type, not the shortcuts that are taken to ensure the cheapest cost possible to construct the damn thing and ensure max profitability
Keystone pipeline spills 210,000 gallons of oil on eve of permitting decision for TransCanada
Nature is warning the State of Nebraska big-time. There have been plenty of leaks in both Dakotas and Wyoming. Why aren’t they publicized? Consider the source. 🙁 T and R to the usual suspects!!
Greenpeace Statement on TransCanada’s Keystone Pipeline Oil Spill
Friends Of The Earth Statement on TransCanada Oil Spill on Keystone Pipeline
Didnt the company say that the pipeline was state of the art and wouldn’t leak or something to that effect
And the Titanic is unsinkable!
This lady takes the wrong approach to literally everything…
So I had to tell her as much:
You go, man! Good on you, LD! Now, back to Gropergate.
Thank You LD!!!!!!!
That..was..awesome 😀
(and so much more helpful and potentially productive than what Joy wrote – you’d think she’d jump on this as a chance to unify all of us, from every political viewpoint, on this pipeline issue!)
Yay!!!!!!!
and then some!!!!!!
I would totally not expect that. She is paid to divide, which keeps the cable ratings up, thus the ad revenue. I’m pretty sure she gets paid more to tweet than to actually host her show. And both are used to divide republicans/democrats where they could unite (pipelines) or used to divide the different factions of the Dem party.
Her past statements on the Clintons, just like Markos’, show that they take the politics as sports mentality, and choose teams instead of sticking to morals.
This morning on MSNBC (hubby insists on putting it on for a few minutes in the morning) the talking heads were ‘discussing’ the tax bill then one of them said something about how it might affect the 2018 elections. So I started yelling at the tv (you’d think hubby would know better by now), “Forget the 2018 elections for one minute!”, I yelled, “How about how the tax bill will hurt so many people?!”.
It’s all about the red vs. blue team game to them, it’s their ‘sport’.
Is there a YouTube link to this video so I can post it on my website to share?
Here you go!
(sorry so late!)
Democrats Are Doomed Unless They Start Listening to Millennials
Hey! Not all of of us “Baby Boomers” pulled the ladder up, didn’t care about the safety net being shredded and voted for white supremacists.
Some of us have been agitating for decades (and getting kind of tired tbh) on behalf of the safety net (in fact I literally was talking about it last night) and some of us definitely do not have cheap healthcare! I’m technically a Baby Boomer, but won’t qualify for Medicare for quite some time.
Other than that, I agree with the above.
Yes it’s the same painting with a broad brush that Reid engages in above. Could be solved by modifiers, such as “many in.”
Absolutely. I was born at the peak of the baby boom in 1957. I’ve supported Bernie and progressives all the way. Along with the other events going on, I’m personally getting my career and retirement trashed under this Pres and congress. After almost 30 years of commitment to my job. (gov’t)
What we need to do is unite the “boomers”, “millennials” and the next generation after that. Together we are powerful. “Boomers” have been fighting this fight for decades. I have been a “progressive” since Jr High and High School. The Vietnam War ended literally 7 days before my 18th birthday. If that doesn’t get your attention nothing will. I had a huge George McGovern poster in my room before I could even vote. Now I have my own website and I volunteer to help distribute the New Hampshire Gazette which you can both read online or subscribe to a tangible paper copy. I highly recommend it. Steve is a Vietnam vet, “progressive” and a descendant of the first publisher in the 1700s. Did I say this fight goes way back?
Vice reporters seem to regularly overdose on brain bleach. Touting overwhelming millennial support for Jon Tester as if that is a good thing? Tester is backing the conservatives on just about every economic policy in Congress (banking “reform”, tax “reform”). Vice does not represent any ability on the part of “millennials” to delve into economic causation or to engage in deeper philosophical analysis of their own life or the lives of others. In fact, the “millennial,” if you judge by Vice, just wants to be another establidem, but now with the party working for their self-interest. That’s a shame, and it points up, I think, Vice’s loyalty to the standard, establishment Dem party, which this article pretends to be opposing.
By the way, ++ to Mag’s comment on this article. Don’t throw all “Boomers” into one basket, and don’t do that to “Millennials” either.
I wonder if your concerns are related to Murdoch’s investment in Vice?
I just did a bit of snooping to see if there was any news on Vice and found this posted today:
and check this out from same link:
I wonder how many “social media influencers” are on the take?
There’s all sorts of media news at this link, including this:
Here’s more on the situation over at NPR, from an NPR article:
how about being neolibcons, fomenting war and economic inequality?
Yes. My son born in 1981 is a proud, union member, and pipe fitter. He also loves to hunt and fish. Partly how I raised him to love the outdoors to strike a balance with video games. But he and some of his friends get defensive on the gun debate. NRA propaganda has its effect. It’s a delicate balance. Again the republican strategy is divide and conquer. We have to be on guard for that. They exploit that there are 2 types of gun owners. Honest animal hunters in rural areas. And people hunters in urban areas. Very different problem and debate for gun laws. But the economic issues affect us all. That should be the big uniting issue.
What Democratic civil war? The left already won.
Who wrote this? I cannot get behind the paywall.
I’d like to believe that “the left already won”, but I don’t.
Thank God!
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Good on him. Now let’s see judges start to rule that pipelines are NOT for the public good.
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What Democratic civil war? The left already won
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/what-democratic-civil-war-the-left-already-won/2017/11/16/9e9b521e-c646-11e7-afe9-4f60b5a6c4a0_story.html
(sorry if this is a dupe, I was out most of the time until last night)
Battle Lines Drawn as GOP Moves Closer to ‘Greatest Transfer of Wealth to the Super-Rich in Modern American History’
This is somewhat exaggerated. Go back and look at 1981 when Fascist Gun in the West started serving his term. That’s when the wealth transfer kicked into overdrive. The legalizing stealing/craporate welfare has not stopped since. 🙁