Pipeline breaks: hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil leaked
There’s a broken solar panel.
There’s a broken wind turbine.
Also, something being safer than other options doesn’t make it safe. An average of 280 significant pipeline breakages happen in oil pipelines a year. Even that incomplete list I used last year had over 625,000 gallons of oil being spilt in just a handful of incidents.
Other hard data presents that every year significant pipeline events occur at a rate of almost one a day costing between hundreds of millions and billions of dollars every year in just lost oil sales. This isn’t including pipeline malfunctions, situations that easily could develop into significant events, which would roughly double the numbers to being about one every 12-14 hours. Between 7 and 38 people die each year and between 50 and 110 people are injured.
And the discredit a counterpoint pre-emptively, the factoid of 2.4 million miles of pipelines in the U.S. is true if you include every type of energy pipeline. If you restrict it to oil pipelines there are only 72,000 miles of oil pipeline.
So between 350 and 700 incidents every year over 72,000 miles of pipe. In the first two months of 2017 we’ve already spilt 322,000 gallons of crude oil in just three incidents (Ozark Pipeline for ~15k, Magellen Midstream partners for ~140k, Seaway Pipeline for 168k). In two months an equivalent of 4.5 gallons for every mile were spilt in just three incidents.
Promises of “This one will be safe, we promise!” are hollow promises as well, since that was the exact line used to push the Keystone XL Pipeline before it too had an oil spill last year, spilling 17,000 gallons.
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