VOTE: Should President Obama veto the Keystone XL pipeline bil?

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7. When it comes to tar sand oil, protocols mostly meaningless

One difference between Keystone XL and the vast majority of other pipelines that have spilled is that it will be carrying tar sands oil, which has proven very difficult, if not impossible, to clean up. A 2010 spill of tar sands oil in the Kalamazoo River in Michigan, for example, has yet to be cleaned up despite four years of effort. Another tar sands spill in 2013 fouled an entire neighborhood in Arkansas. Federal regulators have acknowledged that Keystone XL, too, will spill.

From "America’s Disastrous History of Pipeline Accidents Shows Why the Keystone XL Vote Matters"

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We simply have o stop subsidizing the oil industry and put those funds into alternate energy. Then we won't have to worry so much about spills.

From same article as above:

A new analysis of federal records reveals that in just the past year and four months, there have been 372 oil and gas pipeline leaks, spills and other incidents, leading to 20 deaths, 117 injuries and more than $256 million in damages.

The new data adds to a June 1, 2013 independent analysis of federal records revealing that since 1986, oil and gas pipeline incidents have resulted in 532 deaths, more than 2,400 injuries and more than $7.5 billion in damages.