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Is a pipeline? It wouldn't have happenend if there was a pipeline from Alaska to Puget Sound.Exxon Valdez
The point is that caps are to low. Should the company be responsible for all costs. Yes.Hurricane Katrina
Firestone recall on tires that explode at speeds over 80 km/h
The point is that caps are to low. Should the company be responsible for all costs. Yes.
A Decade of Enbridge Oil Pipeline Spills by Joyce Nelson, part of a feature Pipeline Safety, Dilbit, Captive Regulators and Smart Pigs coming in the March-April Watershed SentinelBecause propaganda says so.
My questions are:
- Which companies take the responsibility?
- Why limit it to a few select industries?
For oil spills are the caps for damages to low?
Good thing all those antiquated lines are now owned just a handful of companies who will close them when the fat lines go through through. Some are older than you Cliffy.Yup. The taxpayer should pay for oil spills because, heaven forbid, those holding shares in oil companies should take a cut in the dividend cheques.
A Decade of Enbridge Oil Pipeline Spills by Joyce Nelson, part of a feature Pipeline Safety, Dilbit, Captive Regulators and Smart Pigs coming in the March-April Watershed Sentinel
2000: 7,513 barrels. Enbridge reported 48 pipeline spills and leaks, including a spill of 1,500 barrels at Innes, Sask.
2001: 25,980 barrels. Enbridge pipelines reported 34 spills and leaks, totalling 25,980 barrels of oil, including a January spill from Enbridge's Energy Transportation North Pipeline that leaked 23,900 barrels of crude oil into a slough near Hardisty, Alberta, and a September spill of 598 barrels in Binbrook, Ont.
2002: 14,683 barrels. Enbridge reported 48 oil spills and leaks, totalling 14,683 barrels, including a leak of 6,133 barrels in Kerrobert, Sask. in January; a seam failure in May that spilled 598 barrels in Glenboro, Man.; and a pipeline rupture into a marsh west of Cohasset, Minn. To prevent 6,000 barrels of crude oil from reaching the Mississippi River, Enbridge set the oil on fire.
2003: 6,410 barrels. Enbridge pipelines had 62 spills and leaks, totalling 6,410 barrels, including a January spill of 4,500 barrels of oil at the company's oil terminal near Superior, Wisc., and a June spill of 452 barrels of oil into Wisconsin's Nemadji River. In April, an Enbridge gas pipeline exploded, levelling a strip mall in Etobicoke, Ont. and killing seven people.
2004: 3,252 barrels. Enbridge pipelines had 69 reported spills, totalling 3,252 barrels of oil, including a February valve failure in Fort McMurray, Alta. that leaked 735 barrels of oil.
2005: 9,825 barrels. Enbridge had 70 reported spills, totalling 9,825 barrels of oil.
2006: 5,363 barrels. Enbridge had 61 reported spills, totalling 5,363 barrels of oil, including a March 613 barrel spill at its Willmar terminal in Saskatchewan and a December spill of 2,000 barrels at a pumping station in Montana.
2007: 13,777 barrels. Enbridge had 65 spills and leaks, totalling 13,777 barrels of oil, including a January pipeline break near Stanley, North Dakota, which spilled 215 barrels of oil; two pipeline incidents in January/February in Clark and Rusk Counties in Wisconsin which spilled 4,200 barrels of oil; and an April spill of approximately 6,227 barrels of oil into a field down-stream of an Enbridge pumping station at Glenavon, Sask. In November, an Enbridge pipeline carrying bitumen to U.S. Midwest markets exploded near Clearbrook, Minn., killing two workers.
2008: 2,682 barrels. Enbridge had 80 reported spills and leaks, totalling 2,682 barrels of oil, including a January incident at an Enbridge pumping station at the Cromer Terminal in Manitoba that leaked 629 barrels of crude; a February incident in Weyburn, Sask., which leaked 157 barrels; and a March spill of 252 barrels of oil in Fort McMurray, Alberta.
2009: 8,441 barrels. Enbridge had 103 reported oil spills and leaks, totalling 8,441 barrels, including a pipeline incident at the Enbridge Cheecham Terminal tank farm that spilled 5,749 barrels of oil near Anzac, Alberta; a spill of 704 barrels in Kisbey, Sask.; and a spill of 1,100 barrels at Odessa, Sask.
2010: 34,122 barrels. Enbridge had 80 reported pipeline spills, totalling 34,122 barrels, including a January Enbridge pipeline leak near Neche, North Dakota of 3,000 barrels of oil; an April incident near Virden, Man. that leaked 12 barrels of oil into Bosshill Creek; a July pipeline spill in Marshall, Michigan that dumped 20,000 barrels of tar sands crude into the Kalamazoo River, causing the biggest oil spill in U.S. Midwest history; and a September pipeline spill of 6,100 barrels in Romeoville, Ill.
Total: 132,715 barrels of oil, more than half the Exxon Valdez spill of 257,000 barrels
Sources: Prince George Citizen (March 12, 2010); The Polaris Institute (May 2010); The Tyee (31 July 2010); Reuters (Sept. 10, 2010); Enbridge.com 2010; Vancouver Sun (May 10, 2011); The Globe & Mail (June 17, 2011); Dogwood Initiative
Yup. Propaganda. Damn greenie weenies!
Yup. The taxpayer should pay for oil spills because, heaven forbid, those holding shares in oil companies should take a cut in the dividend cheques.
Yup. The taxpayer should pay for oil spills because, heaven forbid, those holding shares in oil companies should take a cut in the dividend cheques.
Yup. Propaganda. Damn greenie weenies!
Green wants us to go Nat Gas. Even I've been snooping around for gas laundry driers and a stove and range to take advantage of the Govt Green rebates. BIG savings over electricty and it's green.Even the environmentalists can't and won't get off the petroleum teat. They'll happily pay the inflated prices.
I for one would much prefer to pay for the cost of clean up at the end, via gov taxes to cover cleanup costs, or in fines levied against the company to cover cleanup costs.
By paying at the beginning, via insurance, we add yet another set of pockets we have to pay to line. So, rather than taxes or gas prices going up $.05 cents, let's say, per Canadian to cover a cleanup, our gas prices will go up $.07, to ensure that the insurance companies profit too.
Thanks but no thanks.
In the current system, if a large spill occurs, taxpayers are going to foot the bill. Effectively the Canadian government is acting like an insurance company for free.
So if taxpayers are already assuming the liability, why aren't we charging for that service?
Government insurance isn't new:
Manitoba Public Insurance > Insurance
No moving posts. The caps are ridiculous. You know that as well as I do. Human error - go to the transcripts of the Enbridge spill in the US a couple of years back - Control room in Edmonton was a disaster in management - in training - in response - in everything they were supposedly trained to do. Technology did not help- massive human erros by a number of people- They fuked up royally.Moving goal post Goobs.
Do you fly Westjet? No fatalities yet in 17 years. Why? We build better, easier to maintain things than 50 years ago and human error is being heavvily reduced and impacting R&D, QC and safety records?
Digital is everywhere. Even in pipelines.
No moving posts. The caps are ridiculous. You know that as well as I do. Human error - go to the transcripts of the Enbridge spill in the US a couple of years back - Control room in Edmonton was a disaster in management - in training - in response - in everything they were supposedly trained to do. Technology did not help- massive human erros by a number of people- They fuked up royally.