Thread: What is TransCanada’s safety record?

So so safety record..................

http://www.csmonitor.com/layout/set/...w/print/423490

What is TransCanada’s safety record?

TransCanada has experienced spills in recent years, including on the existing Keystone pipeline, leading environmentalists to say the company can’t be trusted to maintain a pipeline as extensive as the Keystone XL.

The company says the spills mainly occurred at pumping stations, suggesting that the pipelines themselves have maintained their integrity.

Experts say leaks from the actual pipe have the greatest potential for spillage rather than leaks at pump stations, which are more easily controlled. TransCanada says no pipeline breaks took place in 2010.

An environmental impact statement from the State Department, which is quarterbacking the pipeline permit process because it involves a foreign country, says the existing Keystone pipeline experienced 14 spills since June 2010.

The key here is the volume: Seven were 10 gallons or less, two were between 300 and 500 gallons.

The worst spill, of 21,000 gallons, was in May 2011 following a valve failure at a pumping station in Sargent County, N.D. A second leak, of 430 gallons, occurred later that same month in Doniphan County, Kan.

TransCanda responded to both leaks by shutting down the entire pipeline system for two weeks to give the company time to replace fittings.

Adding to environmentalists’ concerns, diluted bitumen is typically a heavy, acidic crude that critics say can result in pipeline corrosion, which makes it more vulnerable to leaks.

However, the oil and gas industry, including TransCanada, says this mixture is comparable to the same type of diluted crude that has already flowed into the US from Canada for more than a decade.

The State Department estimates that the maximum the Keystone XL could potentially spill would be 2.8 million gallons along an area of 1.7 miles. By comparison, the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill released 210 million gallons into the environment.

Fyi.........................

Originally Posted by Margot

The State Department estimates that the maximum the Keystone XL could potentially spill would be 2.8 million gallons along an area of 1.7 miles. By comparison, the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill released 210 million gallons into the environment.

I would never want to use the Gulf oil spill as a comparison to make myself lokk better. Just sayin'....

Plus, as bad as it was/is, the Gulf spill didn't affect drinking water, which the Keystone pipeline could.

Originally Posted by Woogs

I would never want to use the Gulf oil spill as a comparison to make myself lokk better. Just sayin'....

Plus, as bad as it was/is, the Gulf spill didn't affect drinking water, which the Keystone pipeline could.

I think mentioning the Deepwater Horizon spill was about perception..

I don't their track record is very good.

It comes down to energy security and jobs, supporters say. TransCanada is predicting that 20,000 new jobs will be created for the pipeline’s construction.

An additional 118,000 indirect jobs will follow for ancillary support businesses in each state, the company estimates. Supporters say the jobs will not be concentrated just in the states the pipeline passes through, but in other states that produce the materials, such as the piping and pump motors.

The company also promises to deliver more than $5 billion in property taxes each year for the six states traversed by the pipeline.

The pipeline would improve US energy security by providing more oil from a friendly, stable, and reliable neighbor, while reducing US dependence on imports from regions that have shaky environmental regulations and political climates, such as Venezuela and the Middle East, Keystone XL supporters say.

The pipeline would also transport up to 65,000 bpd from the Bakken deposits.

Canada is already the largest supplier of oil into the US and growing, pumping supplying 2.6 million barrels per day on average in 2011, more than it did the previous year and more than double that of Mexico, in second place with 1.2 million barrels per day. Supporters say the pipeline will ensure that Canada maintains its leadership in the years to come.

Anyone know why that pipeline has to go all the way to Texas?

Originally Posted by Marine1

Anyone know why that pipeline has to go all the way to Texas?

Good question....

Originally Posted by Marine1

Anyone know why that pipeline has to go all the way to Texas?

that's where the refineries are. not all of them, just the bulk. it's also where the starting point of the pipeline network that supplies most of the remainder of the refineries east of the rockies. one big pipe to TX is cheaper than one medium pipe to TX, then smaller ones to Denver, KC, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Knoxville...yadda, yadda, yadda.

Well unless things have changed back in my old home town, Toledo Ohio has two big refineries and is only about 60 miles from the Canadian border.

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