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Sometimes Bigger is NOT Better

On the 16 th of November in 2017, the Keystone Pipeline spilled what was initially reported to be 210,000 gallons of crude oil onto the farmlands of Aberdeen, South Dakota. Nearly doubling the initial amount, it actually dumped 407,000 gallons as of April 7, 2018, costing TransCanada (the owners) $9.57 million. The Keystone is a pipeline that carries crude oil more than 2,500 miles from Alberta, Canada to Illinois and Texas. In the past eight years, this has been the seventh largest onshore spill of an oil or petroleum product. Try this on for size- 407,000 gallons of crude oil spilled across the farmlands of Aberdeen, SD. (borrowed from globalnews.ca) Early on November 16 th , a TransCanada employee detected a pressure drop, and no more than three minuets later they began to shut down the line. The leak is thought to have occurred due to mechanical damage regarding the weights that are installed on the pipeline to prevent the line from floating in areas that a...