Major Pipeline Oil Leak Spills Thousands of Barrels into Alberta River

[Nathanael]

A leaking oil pipeline has spilled 475,000 litres of sour oil in the Red Deer River and a nearby creek in Sundre, Alberta.

The spill was first identified on Thursday night when residents living just north of Sundre phoned in reports of smelling rotten eggs -- a telltale sign of sour gas or oil.

http://www.energyboom.com/policy/major-pipeline-oil-leak-spills-thousands-barrels-alberta-river

[valerief]

1. The sun is clean. I wish we had sun energy. nt

[CrispyQ]

3. "When there is a solar spill, it's called a beautiful day!"

I saw that somewhere & it made me smile.

[valerief]

4. Great line! nt

[Downwinder]

2. It is safe to build a pipeline to the coast?

[turtlerescue1]

5. Having trouble with ability to be deluded.

Or should that be diluted?

Does this one have an affiliation with some of the "boys"/brothers here? It's too bad the Earth can't bring a lawsuit, I mean Corporations are considered people, why not This Baby Blue Planet?

[liam_laddie]

6. Headline is a bit misleading

475,000 litres is about 2,988 barrels (at 42 gallons per oil barrel, the standard used by most producers.)
Granted that 3,000 "is" thousands, but the 475,000 jumps out; switching the word "litres" to "barrels" way overstates the volume, probably an innocent error.
For example, this spill is equivalent to about one-third of the capacity of a typical 9,000 gallon, two-axle tanker trailer...
the type you see refilling the below-ground tanks at your local filling station. Any spill, however small, is always a disaster for the environment. Still a lot of crap in the river. Sad.

[Arctic Dave]

8. Uh, 2988 barrels is far more then what any tanker truck can carry.

A very large tanker can be 100 barrels, not 3000.

[liam_laddie]

12. Mea maxima culpa, Arctic Dave.

You are absolutely correct; my bad. Can't blame my calculator. The spill estimate is about 2990 bbls., or over 125,000 gallons. That's about (14) 9,000 gallon trailers-full. A BIG spill; wonder how long that much oil was flowing. Thanks for catching that. A big two-axle tanker trailer holds a bit more than 200 bbls. or 8400 US gallons.
Also, I agree with AtheistCrusader's note; in the 1980's I was dimensioning parts in both English & Metric (SI) systems. Metric is better.

[AtheistCrusader]

11. The headline is not misleading. The united states is in the dark ages.

Story is about Alberta Canada. They use Metric up there. Like the rest of the civilized world.

[teddy51]

7. Boy that's going to raise havoc with the Feds. push to get that pipeline from Alberta

to Prince Rupert, BC. Maybe this is just the thing the environmentalists needed to stop this thing.

[OnlinePoker]

9. It's not Prince Rupert, it's Kitimat

Deep water port but narrow channel to get into it. There is (was?) a major aluminum smelter there.

[teddy51]

10. That's even worse huh? I would suspect that the Aboriginals will be against that, big time.

All British Colombians should be against this. As I understand it, there is really nothing in this for BC.