{"id":182627,"date":"2015-07-20T19:49:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T00:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/07\/20\/yeah-i-am-so-confident-in-the-safety-of-the-keystone-xl-pipeline\/"},"modified":"2015-07-20T19:49:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T00:49:00","slug":"yeah-i-am-so-confident-in-the-safety-of-the-keystone-xl-pipeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/07\/20\/yeah-i-am-so-confident-in-the-safety-of-the-keystone-xl-pipeline\/","title":{"rendered":"Yeah, I am So Confident in the Safety of the Keystone XL Pipeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Up in Alberta, land of the Tar Sands, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmog.ca\/2015\/07\/17\/nexen-brand-new-pipeline-ruptured-causing-one-biggest-oil-spills-ever-alberta\">a brand new bitumen pipeline has just ruptured<\/a>, causing a major oil spill:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">One of the largest leaks in Alberta history has spilled about five million litres of emulsion from a Nexen Energy pipeline at the company&#8217;s Long Lake oilsands facility south of Fort McMurray.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The leak was discovered Wednesday afternoon.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Nexen said in a statement its emergency response plan has been activated and personnel were onsite. The leak has been stabilized, the company said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The spill covered an area of about 16,000 square metres, mostly within the pipeline corridor, the company said. Emulsion is a mixture of bitumen, water and sand.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>BTW, that high tech brand new (<a href=\"http:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/2116785\/nexen-to-provide-update-on-northern-alberta-pipeline-spill\/\">1 year in operation<\/a>) pipeline? <\/p>\n<p>The warning system failed as well:<\/p>\n<blockquote lang=\"en\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Nexen&#8217;s &#8220;failsafe&#8221; system didn&#8217;t detect massive pipeline spill: <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/ULEnxlmQEN\">http:\/\/t.co\/ULEnxlmQEN<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/DmChECTUX7\">pic.twitter.com\/DmChECTUX7<\/a><\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Anna Mehler Paperny (@amp6) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/amp6\/status\/622097579744976897\">July 17, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is what happens when the private industries capture the government that is supposed to regulate it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up in Alberta, land of the Tar Sands, a brand new bitumen pipeline has just ruptured, causing a major oil spill: One of the largest leaks in Alberta history has spilled about five million litres of emulsion from a Nexen Energy pipeline at the company&#8217;s Long Lake oilsands facility south of Fort McMurray.The leak was &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1078,1135,1009,985,1216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-disaster","category-energy","category-government","category-regulation","category-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182627"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}