Blue Marble - July 2011  Keystone XL Pipeline: Riskier Than
TransCanada Claims?  | Tue Jul. 12, 2011 1:06 PM GMT
TransCanada, the energy company that wants to build a 1,661-mile
pipeline from Alberta, Canada, down to Texas, keeps insisting
that its project would be "among the safest pipelines in North
America." But a new report from a University of Nebraska
professor indicates that the worst-case spills could be a lot
more devastating than the company has predicted, and there could
be a lot more of them.  The Keystone XL has already drawn
criticism for several reasons: It would bring some of the
world's dirtiest oil into the US, it would cross a massive
aquifer that provides water to much of the Great Plains, and
it's up for consideration at a time when Americans have been
hearing an awful lot about oil spills. There have already been
numerous leaks on TransCanada's original Keystone pipeline, and
this month's Yellowstone River spill certainly hasn't made the
Keystone XL sound any better.  TransCanada cliams