Just what we need here

[Luddly Neddite]

Scope of Alberta Oil Incident Worsens - WSJ.com

CALGARY, Alberta—Canadian Natural Resources Ltd., CNQ.T +2.12% Canada's largest independent oil producer, raised the amount of oil released from an uncontained series of leaks at an oil-sands site in Alberta to nearly 6,000 barrels of heavy crude, up from an initial report of 175 barrels, regulators said.

"Because it's ongoing, the volume will continue to increase," Cara Tobin, a spokeswoman for the Alberta Energy Regulator, or AER, said Monday.

Out-of-control oil leaks at Canadian tar sands site - environment - 31 July 2013 - New Scientist

Ah, the beautiful wilds of western Canada. Rivers, mountains, forests… and out-of-control oil leaks that have already spurted thousands of barrels of toxic bitumen into the environment.

The leaks were caused by an underground blowout at a tar sand project in north-east Alberta run by Canadian Natural Resources that had been certified safe by government regulators. One of the firm's scientists has been reported saying that they are mystified as to what went wrong or how to stop the leak. The company hasn't disclosed how fast the leaks are progressing.

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/20...for-10-weeks-and-no-one-knows-how-to-stop-it/

A Canadian oil company still hasn’t been able to stop a series leaks from underground wells at a tar sands operation in Cold Lake, Alberta. The first leak was reported on May 20, with three others following in the weeks after — making it at least 10 weeks that oil has been flowing unabated.

Here's a list of oil spills.
List of oil spills - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Instead of doing what we already know does not work, how about we put our future into NEEDING less oil. Makes no sense to keep saying we want lower prices for gas while doing so little to get free of the stranglehold our dependance has us trapped in.

Hard to believe that anyone actually wants the Keystone line to run through the US. We would get NO oil out of it and damn few temporary or permanent jobs.

Its time we moved into the 21st century.

 

[R.C. Christian]

Awesome. Couldn't happen to a better place.

 

[Mr. H.]

Much ado about nothing. Exacerbated by Lovely No-Nuts.

Go bark up some other tree, whore-be-gone.

 

[martybegan]

Much ado about nothing. Exacerbated by Lovely No-Nuts.

Go bark up some other tree, whore-be-gone.

So oil is leaking into sands filled with oil.......

 

[tinydancer]

Or you could have this if you keep wanting to ship by rail.

 

[tinydancer]

And luddly you already receive oil from us via Keystone Phase I and II. We are your number one supplier.

And it's a little too late to start freaking out about pipelines

 

[Mr. H.]

750 million pounds of farm chemicals representing over 20,000 varieties of pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers... year in, year out. Spread over our soils.

5,800 square miles of the Gulf of Mexico bereft of life. The Dead Zone it's called.

And not a peep of protest toward the agriculture industry.

We've got a major priority problem in this country.