Tribes question running oil pipeline under Missouri, Milk rivers

[Ptah]

FORT PECK DAM — The Missouri and Milk rivers merge just downstream from this major landmark in northeastern Montana.

At this confluence, TransCanada is proposing to run almost a half mile of 36-inch diameter oil pipeline beneath the two rivers.

Not if the Assiniboine and Sioux tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation have anything to say about it.

About 60 miles downstream from this crossing, the tribes of Fort Peck tap the Missouri River for water that's treated and then distributed across northeastern Montana through a massive, federally funded water system that will serve 30,000 residents, both on and off the reservation, when it's completed.

“We’re adamant they move it,” said Floyd Azure, Fort Peck tribal chairman, from his office in Poplar, where two sacred staffs adorned with eagle feathers stand behind his desk. “There’s no two ways about it.”

https://www.greatfallstribune.com/story/news/2018/11/28/keystone-xl-pipeline-montana-native-american-tribes-missouri-milk-river/2119311002/

Montanans view benefits, risks differently

[MontanaMama]

1. A 36" pipeline under two rivers?

What could go wrong? Has there ever been a pipeline that didn’t leak?

[Delmette2.0]

2. Nope!

The way these pipelines are built and monitored, they are almost guaranteed to leak. They will leak until, oh my gosh look happened! Then no one has the ability or money to clean up the mess.

I wonder what the downstream state think about this?

[ROB-ROX]

3. NO PROBLEM

The pipe people explained if there was a leak the river would "dilute" the oil. Everyone knows there is a solution with dilution. Unless they don't plan to "double" encase the pipe so the outer pipe captures the leaking oil they should not do this BAD idea.......Cheap bastards are just trying to pollute another river.....