re: #144 lawhawk

The pipeline that leaked in to the Yellowstone River near Billings MT isn’t far away from the proposed routing of the Keystone XL that will cross both the Yellowstone and Missouri Rivers in Montana before heading south.

But the proponents keep saying that it’ll be safe. Right up until it isn’t. And by that point, the environmental damage will be significant.

And tar sands oil isn’t considered crude oil, so TransCanada/Keystone isn’t required to contribute to the federal oil spill liability trust fund.
And then there’s this:

TransCanada’s one-sided, often forced, contracts tell landowners they should, at the property owner’s expense, take out liability insurance because economic damages to land and water are not covered under any federal law when a spill happens. On top of that, TransCanada leaves the pipeline in the ground for the landowner to dig up and restore the soil once TransCanada is finished using that massive piece of foreign steel. Again, at the landowners’ risk and the landowners’ expense.

Eminent domain fine and dandy for Keystone-obsessed GOP