Spill detection failed

[maryjane48]

"TransCanada's Detection System Fails To Notice Keystone Oil Spill" - http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/04/05 ... 16124.html

just goes to show the lengths these companies wil go to in efforts to pull the wool over peoples eyes . it now looks like the americans will have review over this pipeline and good chance they may shut it down

[Dizzy1]

just goes to show the lengths these companies wil go to in efforts to pull the wool over peoples eyes .

And what "efforts" are those? They designed something to work a certain way, it didn't so now they have to fix the problem so it works as it is designed to. No different than any other technology.

it now looks like the americans will have review over this pipeline and good chance they may shut it down

Where does it say that "they may shut it down"?

[driveangry]

The logic of an anti-pipeline activist.

[The Green Barbarian]

http://cnews.canoe.com/CNEWS/Canada/201 ... 20767.html

NORTH BAY, Ont. - Residents Ron and Belinda Malcolm are used to hearing trains running along tracks by their North Bay home, but "knew something bad had happened" on Tuesday morning.

Three homes along Hwy. 63 were evacuated after 25 empty tanker cars of a Ontario Northland train derailed near Peninsula Rd. at 5:30 a.m.

Ron Malcolm said he could tell right away something was wrong.

“It rattled our house," Ron said. "It was definitely abnormal. We knew something bad had happened.”

He said he looked out the window and saw “a lot of sparks. There was a lot of banging going on.”

One of the cars was stopped by a large, dead maple tree on the property.

“We were going to cut it down but we left it up,” Belinda said.

Large clumps of dirt and soil covered their back deck, torn up by the train cars.

People who continue to oppose pipelines have to be some of the dumbest people around. Just so dense.

[Dizzy1]

People who continue to oppose pipelines have to be some of the dumbest people around. Just so dense.

You'll have to give them a bit before they can respond - they're out putting fuel in their vehicles.

[ferri]

*stay on topic please! thank you!

[LTD]

this is some what funny really 3 meters by 10 that's a freakin joke of course the sensors to shut it down wouldn't catch that its nothing the highway trucks people think are safer make a bigger mess when they have an engine go sideways

[Dizzy1]

this is some what funny really 3 meters by 10 that's a freakin joke of course the sensors to shut it down wouldn't catch that its nothing the highway trucks people think are safer make a bigger mess when they have an engine go sideways

And at 500 000 barrels a day - thats a drip.

[Smurf]

Leaks of any size are definitely a problem but as dizzy says in the grand scheme of things it is actually nothing. No matter what we do we are stuck with fossil fuels for a long time to come unless we want to shut down the world completely. Pipe lines are not perfect, nothing is, but they are by far the safest for the amount of product they move. Spill detection works but a tiny amount like this is very hard to detect. Hopefully they can get it all cleaned up.

[Pat-Taporter]

Vice News
Environment

Here's Why TransCanada's Keystone Pipeline Leaked Again

By Hilary Beaumont

April 13, 2016 | 10:10 am

https://news.vice.com/article/heres-why ... aked-again

. . . leaking at a rate of two drops per minute . . .

. . . Based in India, Welspun manufactures pipeline and textiles including towels. . . .