Keystone Xl Pipeline Spill. The project will strengthen u.s. A spill would be devastating to the farms, ranches, and communities that depend on these crucial ecosystems.
Both projects were blocked by president obama, but revived in january of also, oil leaks.
Much of the rhetoric surrounding keystone xl's rejection by the obama administration was about the pipeline's potential environmental impacts due to spills, and its. The pipeline from hardisty, alberta, to cushing, oklahoma, and to wood river and patoka in. Spills were among the major concerns listed by protestors of the pipeline's controversial xl extension. A leak in the keystone pipeline released at least 210,000 gallons of oil, and the pipeline has since been shut off.