Yes. Leaks happen. This one will cost us, big time. Look for global temps to be altered +/- .05 degrees over the next 48 years...unless they don't.
Leaks and their very real possibility are exactly why I wanted Nebraska to have NOTHING to do with the pipeline.
If they ever put a pipeline over the Ogallala aquifier, we're all doomed.
Good thing there are none! Oh wait.
I hadn't heard, but just out of curiosity, why purposely damage them? I don't see the sense in that.
Not all of the Ogallala aquifer lies over the Sandhills. The pipelines are usually sited over heavy clay soils that prevent percolation. Oil also rises to the top of water so IF there is a leak near water it is readily visible and normally recoverable. Much of the concern about the pipeline has been hysteria whipped up by environmental whackos. We need to be mindful of what is going on, but that whole protest thing was a joke. The hanful of Native Americans who started the protest ended up wanting all of the idiots from the east and west coasts to go the hell home by the time it was over.
Exactly. There was no sense to the protests either. They damaged more of the ecosystem with their human waste than a pipeline does during those protests. Tons and tons of garbage. Thousands of gallons of human waste much of which went directly in to a river. Why do animal activists turn lab animals loose only to see them chased around or die a horrible death. Somebody in my area turned loose cows at a packing plant every night for a week to protest animal slaughter houses. Of course those animals were chased and herded and some of them shot when they couldn't be caught. People are idiots. Some people didn't just didn't want the government telling them they had to let the pipeline go across their property and it had nothing to do with the environment. Anti-government people like that would be more than willing to sabotage a pipeline. Some environmentalist whackos will stop at nothing including damaging the ecosystem they supposedly are trying to protect to try to make a point.
I bet Frost could stop an oil leak in the pipeline just by staring at it.
Lol. Awesome. Good Friday to everyone!!!
Of course all the plastics, heavy metals and materials that are used in the batteries etc don't cause any pollution.....
Did you know that a by-product of the electricity generating magnet manufactured for the windmills is one of the most toxic manufacturing by-product on earth. Of course they're all made in China so I'm sure they're containing the pollutants responsibly....
According to a Navy Seal commander I listened to with multiple years service in multiple conflicts dealing with tribes in different middle eastern countries, the next great conflict on US soil will deal with food shortages due to water shortages. That said, pipelines aren't going to cause food shortages. They could cause isolated local water issues. What's interesting is that we already had contamination of the Ogallala aquifer around Grand Island NE from the Air Force base and weapons depot there after WWII.Seeing as Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas have basically sucked their portions of the aquifer dry, I think Nebraskans would be smart to protect such a valuable resource. Let's face it, Nebraska doesn't have mountains or ocean. It doesn't have oil or mineral wealth. There aren't big cities or tech hubs. The only thing advantage it has over any other state is fertile soil and underground water. As the world population booms, and climate potentially changes, that soil and water is going to be more and more valuable. Jeopardizing it so Canadians can sell oil to the Chinese doesn't seem like a very smart idea, especially since there will be no jobs or wealth creation for Nebraskans.
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Of course all the plastics, heavy metals and materials that are used in the batteries etc don't cause any pollution.....
So are you denying that the production of batteries and solar panels produces vast amount of toxic waste and uses a great deal of energy? Did you know that the production, erection and maintenace of windmills (including oil changes for the turbines) uses more energy than they will every produce in their lifetime? It's a political boondogle. The only reason we have electric cars is the TAX CREDITs buyers and the INVESTMENT TAX credits manufacturers get. It isn't feasible and production of the batteries has it's own problems.
I'd like to see roads/interstates/etc, able to collect solar power and distribute it somewhere. With all of the millions of miles of roadway, baking in the sun during the day across the US, surely all of that heat absorbed can be harnessed. Feed it to the stations and use it for the batteries. Or, perhaps a super capacitor that stores the solar energy?
