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Omaha Steve

(99,726 posts) Fri Feb 13, 2015, 08:33 PM Feb 2015

Montana governor calls for deeper pipelines after oil spills

Source: AP-Excite

By MATTHEW BROWN

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Montana's governor called on the Obama administration Friday to strengthen rules that require oil pipelines to be buried just 4 feet beneath major waterways, after two breaches that spilled a combined 93,000 gallons of crude into the Yellowstone River.

River scouring due to flooding or an ice jam is being investigated as a possible cause of a spill last month that dumped about 30,000 gallons into the Yellowstone upstream of Glendive, temporarily contaminating the city's water supply.

In 2011, an Exxon Mobil pipeline broke during flooding near Laurel and fouled dozens of miles of river bank with oil.

Bullock said Friday in a letter to Transportation Secretary Anthony Fox that he wants existing lines surveyed to determine how deeply they're buried. The governor also asked for more federal inspectors in Montana, which has only one overseeing 3,800 miles of pipelines in the state.

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Montana governor calls for deeper pipelines after oil spills (Original Post) Omaha Steve Feb 2015 OP

Let's repurpose those dirty pipelines for water in drought stricken areas. That's a better idea. Dont call me Shirley Feb 2015 #1

Convert XL to a water pipeline, Canada would have even huger profits. Fred Sanders Feb 2015 #4

Instead of 'deeper' oil pipelines how about FEWER oil pipelines groundloop Feb 2015 #2

+1 Historic NY Feb 2015 #3

That's what I was thinking HeiressofBickworth Feb 2015 #5

Yall beat me to that observation Panich52 Feb 2015 #9

In other news, the Montana Governor is an idiot nt abbeyco Feb 2015 #6

I couldn't have summed it up better! nt Plucketeer Feb 2015 #7

Just as a thought... jmowreader Feb 2015 #8

Here's a better idea: DeSwiss Feb 2015 #10

Dont call me Shirley

(10,998 posts)

1. Let's repurpose those dirty pipelines for water in drought stricken areas. That's a better idea.

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Fri Feb 13, 2015, 08:42 PM

Feb 2015

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)

4. Convert XL to a water pipeline, Canada would have even huger profits.

Reply to Dont call me Shirley (Reply #1)

Fri Feb 13, 2015, 09:07 PM

Feb 2015

groundloop

(11,523 posts)

2. Instead of 'deeper' oil pipelines how about FEWER oil pipelines

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Fri Feb 13, 2015, 08:59 PM

Feb 2015

Historic NY

(37,453 posts)

3. +1

Reply to groundloop (Reply #2)

Fri Feb 13, 2015, 09:07 PM

Feb 2015

because deeper means it will go undiscovered maybe for years.

HeiressofBickworth

(2,682 posts)

5. That's what I was thinking

Reply to Historic NY (Reply #3)

Fri Feb 13, 2015, 09:44 PM

Feb 2015

A leak deeper underground places dangerous oil even closer to underground waterways. And wouldn't be discovered until people became sick or died.

Panich52

(5,829 posts)

9. Yall beat me to that observation

Reply to HeiressofBickworth (Reply #5)

Sat Feb 14, 2015, 12:39 AM

Feb 2015

Closer to aquifers, harder to clean up spills, providing they even know where pipe is (Maddow pointed out ND doesn't even have maps of all their pipes)