Crews work to clean 50k gallons of crude from Yellowstone River - Polidicks

[QUOTE]GLENDIVE, Mont. (AP) — Crews working to clean up crude oil that spilled in and near the Yellowstone River in eastern Montana and prevent it from traveling further downstream were hampered by ice covering much of the river, officials said Monday. Officials with Bridger Pipeline LLC of Casper, Wyoming, have said the break in the 12-inch steel pipe happened Saturday morning in an area about 9 miles upstream from Glendive, a community in east-central Montana near the North Dakota border. Bridger spokesman Bill Salvin said Monday that the company is confident that no more than 1,200 barrels — or 50,000 gallons — of oil spilled during the hour-long breach. "Oil has made it into the river," Salvin said. "We do not know how much at this point."[/QUOTE] [url]http://bigstory.ap.org/article/47a0982936a84485a7585880de363e02/crews-clean-oil-spilled-eastern-montana-pipeline[/url]

[img]http://i.imgur.com/8nurF7J.jpg[/img] This is what 50,000 gallons looks like.

[QUOTE=OvB;46968134][img]http://i.imgur.com/8nurF7J.jpg[/img] This is what 50,000 gallons looks like.[/QUOTE] Looks much less then everyone likely thought it was.

[QUOTE=OvB;46968134][img]http://i.imgur.com/8nurF7J.jpg[/img] This is what 50,000 gallons looks like.[/QUOTE] Going off some quick searches a oil tanker could carry like 150+ million gallons. That's amazing.

[QUOTE=nuttyboffin;46969168]Looks much less then everyone likely thought it was.[/QUOTE] but still very serious

I live downstream from this and our water comes from the yellowstone. :(

And you see idiots here defending Keystone XL, a pipeline that gives us no benefit, and that runs over an aquifer under the shit argument that transporting oil by pipe is somehow safer than rail or this. I know you'd argue that keystone XL would somehow be safer that this, it's not.

[QUOTE=GunFox;46969313]I live downstream from this and our water comes from the yellowstone. :([/QUOTE] I'm about 100 miles downriver, hopefully it doesn't make it this far

You'd think transporting oil would be no more difficult then water, but then again we don't hear about idiots spilling 150 million gallons of water by accident.

[QUOTE=Samg381;46972127]You'd think transporting oil would be no more difficult then water, but then again we don't hear about idiots spilling 150 million gallons of water by accident.[/QUOTE] Edit: My post was so badly typed. Fixed. We do hear about water leaking or spilling, but it has a different result. The worry is it might sweep away dirt or soil, or perhaps even houses and vehicles. It's a loss of the product, versus it polluting.

[QUOTE=Samg381;46972127]You'd think transporting oil would be no more difficult then water, but then again we don't hear about idiots spilling 150 million gallons of water by accident.[/QUOTE] Even if it were to happen who really cares about spilled water.

[QUOTE=Buck.;46972351]Even if it were to happen who really cares about spilled water.[/QUOTE] If you "spilled" 150 million gallons of water into the middle of a neighborhood or a forested area it would be amazingly destructive lol.

[QUOTE=Samg381;46972127]You'd think transporting oil would be no more difficult then water, but then again we don't hear about idiots spilling 150 million gallons of water by accident.[/QUOTE] Any local fire department probably spills thousands of gallons of water on a monthly basis from spillage, testing hydrants and hoses. Now multiply that to every department in the country. [editline]20th January 2015[/editline] 150 million gallons of water would suck though.

[QUOTE=OvB;46972384]Any local fire department probably spills thousands of gallons of water on a monthly basis from spillage, testing hydrants and hoses. Now multiply that to every department in the country. [editline]20th January 2015[/editline] 150 million gallons of water would suck though.[/QUOTE] We're talking instant release here, my department only tests our hoses about once every three months or so so I'd like to think we're not the most wasteful public organization.