But Pipelines Are Safe
How could this possibly have happened? </sarcasm>
The CBC reports: Drinking water trucked into Montana city after oil spill
Officials said Monday that they were bringing truckloads of drinking water to the eastern Montana city of Glendive after traces of nearly 190,000 litres of oil that spilled into the Yellowstone River were found in the city’s water supply.
State and federal officials said preliminary tests Monday indicated that at least some oil entered the supply for the city of 5,300 people. They stressed they are shipping drinking water as a precaution and do not know yet whether there is any public health threat to residents. They will perform further tests to determine that.
The pipeline is buried below the riverbed of the Yellowstone River and most of the river is frozen over.
This is just the latest reason not to build the Keystone XL pipeline.
