Texas Pipeline Spills 17,000 Gallons of Crude Oil

A Koch-owned pipeline spilled 17,000 gallons (400 barrels) of crude oil in the town of Smithville, TX. yesterday. This incident marks the latest in a number of inland oil spills that have ravaged the continent.



Though there were no injuries, the spill has caused a sizeable amount of land and environmental damage. A rural area of about 100X25 yards and two livestock ponds have been contaminated, cutting down the drinking supply of the property’s livestock. The pipeline is owned by the Koch Pipeline Co., which is a subsidiary of Koch Industries.



Recently, in North Dakota, a busted pipeline loosed over 20,000 barrels of crude oil over 7.3 acres of land. The spill from the pipeline, which is owned by Tesoro Logistics, went unreported to the public for 11 days. The lack of urgency and compassion exuded by the state government aroused anger and discontent.



“It shows an attitude of our current state government and what they think of the public,” said Dakota Resource Council director, Don Morrison. “There is a pattern in the state government to not involve the public.”



Aside from that incident, the “second-leading oil-producing state in the country,” it was later indicated that 300 pipeline spills have gone unreported. However, the pipeline incidence are barely half of the 750 “oil field incidents” that have occurred since January 2012.



The spill in Texas has been contained by SWS Environmental, and the location of and the reason for the burst pipeline has not been confirmed.



The Koch Pipeline Co. “had no estimated time for repairs. Neither Koch nor the Texas Railroad Commission had a public statement about the incident.”

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All this shows is how little the company & the government care for our health and our environment. How do they get away with 300 unreported oil spills? Why aren't they cleaning it up? Why isn't the government monitoring what they do with all this oil?
Crude oil is so outdated.
But unfortunately, oil is literally a currency of it's own now, so it now holds power.

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You know somedays it honestly seems the elite have a plan to abandon earth at some point in the future,and leave the untenable cesspool it has been turned into,to us "cockroaches".

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The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.

Raxoxane
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You know somedays it honestly seems the elite have a plan to abandon earth at some point in the future,and leave the untenable cesspool it has been turned into,to us "cockroaches".

This sounds about right to me.

Either that or they are so that they don't care so much about the future of their grandchildren and so on.

A pipeline spill nowadays may sound mundane compared to the rest of the destruction of the environment going on, but to areas that were pristine 100+ years ago it means devastation. The Earth is very fragile on all aspects