Update: Keystone Pipeline shut down after rupture near Fort Ransom
AN UNKOWN AMOUNT OF CRUDE OIL SPILLED. THE CAUSE IS BEING INVESTIGATED
FORT RANSOM, N.D. (KVRR) – A portion of the Keystone Pipeline, which carries crude oil from Canada to the United States, ruptured Tuesday morning near Fort Ransom, in southeastern North Dakota.
Bill Suess, Program Manager for the North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality, tells KVRR Local News that a pipeline employee reported hearing a “bang” and saw oil coming out of the 30-inch pipeline, near a pumping station.
Suess says the rupture was reported at 7:44 a.m.
Oil was reported surfacing 300 yards south of the pump station in a field. Suess says the spill was contained in about two minutes. The oil has been confined to a nearby field.
The size and cause of the spill are under investigation.
The $5.2 billion pipeline was built in 2011. The pipeline carries crude oil across Saskatchewan and Manitoba through North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri to refineries in Illinois and Oklahoma.
GetsBetterAfterAFew on April 8th, 2025 at 16:42 UTC »
This is from a story in 2012
"Even after causing more than a dozen spills in 2011 from its newest tar sands pipeline — including a six story “geyser” of crude — Canadian energy developer TransCanada claimed its planned Keystone XL pipeline would “exceed” safety standards.
But according to a new investigation of TransCanada’s development plans, the company does not plan to use advanced spill prevention technologies on a section of pipeline that would cross an underground reservoir providing nearly 30 percent of America’s irrigation water.
InsideClimate Newsreported this week that TransCanada would only use standard leak detection technologies across a 19-mile stretch of the pristine Ogallala Aquifer, making bigger leaks more likely."
We were told these pipelines were leakproof which led to the idea it doesnt need monitoring. Remember when gigantic corporations say "Regulations are killing their buisness" theyre saying spending money on technology to prevent problems lowers profits.
Sideshift1427 on April 8th, 2025 at 16:25 UTC »
Good thing that Republicans are okay with oil pollution, this area couldn't be more Red.
Meb2x on April 8th, 2025 at 16:21 UTC »
Literally nobody could have seen this coming /s