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Gee, I wonder why First Nations might take issue with things like this in their backyard.
Oopsie. (not the worst oil spill but :yea:)
Renewable energy is communism :frothingfash:
To your last point, there was a study going around a few years back that something like 70% of all emissions come from 100 companies, iirc. Also, the organization that produces the most emissions in the world is the US military which is larded right into the US average.
Curbing energy usage in the industrialized world should definitely come first. In the US, you'd have to decommission a lot of the military, eliminate the cruise industry entirely, shorten consumer good supply chains, get people out of cars, eliminate most domestic flights, do a massive rail build out, and more. The US is perfectly designed to emit carbon.
US & Canadian residents are much less efficient on average, a lot of it's due to the low density built environment which obviously doesn't excuse it, but it's not something that the average person there can do anything about.
Reducing energy consumption wouldn't even be hard. Modern society is enormously wasteful
To save any other Midwestern comrades an hour of searching to get any info about it:
- This is in Mill Creek, near Washington, KS.
- It's in the very north of the state, on the Nebraska border, due north of Wichita
- Downstream of this creek, based on GIS water data
- Little Blue River,
- Big Blue River
- Tuttle Creek Lake
- Kansas River
- The cities of Manhattan, Wamego, Topeka, Lawrence, through on to Kansas City
- Missouri River
- Jefferson City, MO
- Mississippi River at St. Louis MO
- The Mississippi all the way on down through Memphis, Little Rock Baton Rouge, NOLA, and out into the Gulf of Mexico
No idea what the practical impacts will be. But it's a river. Shit rolls down hill, shit flows downstream.
And to think so many people wanted to go to Wichita to be free from this opera forevermore... only for the singing to get EVEN LOUDER.
I would say something about indigenous people rolling their eyes at unprecedented levels, but Fucking Kansas has driven them all off their lands, more than likely.
I still don't get why so many oil pipelines fuck up like this, like isn't it in the oil companies interest to make shit that won't constantly burst?
Even pipelines that work leak tons of oil daily, it's just spread out along their length. The amount of maintenance that would be required to maintain them to a standard that doesn't leech out into the environment at all is a lot more than the amount required to make them juuuust good enough.
even with proper maintenance, you simply cannot have a pipeline hundreds of miles long with a flow rate of hundreds of thousands of barrels per day without it leaking.
It's diminishing returns. You'd have to be inspecting every mile of pipeline every day and be ready to make repairs and replace pipe constantly. It would effectively render any pipeline inoperable. It's untenable under any circumstances to have zero leakage in pipelines. Everything leaks. This is one among many reasons why it's imperative to transition away from petrochemicals for fuel, at the least.
"The first thing they teach you at engineering school is that everything leaks, no matter what." - :rocz-yes:
That's what I keep telling nuke 'enthusiasts' every time they play the thorium / molten fucking SALT card thinking they redesigned the titanic and this time it won't sink for sure!
But it has a negative temperature coefficient! Yeah what happens when someone doesn't get the chem just right or what happens eventually when radioactivity + metal + heat + corrision + crap-it-all-ism + neglect + unforseen natural disaster because climate change is making 1000+ year events the norm happens?
Oh well stop being negative! You're part of the WEF Green New Fascism deal aren't you! Just :what-the-hell:
yeah but have you considered how hard it is to cut corners in a pipeline that keeps going on and on in a straight line
All good communists are blackpilled already and trying their beat even in the fact of it all
Ultimately, does this cause more damage than if it used as intended? That environment is already disrupted by a pipeline running through it, it already has some things probably leaking out, and there's gotta be pollution and plastic garbage everywhere already. It's more immediately disastrous for sure, but I'm certain if the long term is much different.
It is always worth remembering that we have created unimaginably horrifying chemicals and just suffused them into every part of the world for quite a long time. I won't say forever because I firmly believe bacteria or insects can find a way to eventually break down and destroy this, removing any trace of our sad existence if we don't fix it ourselves soon.
A leak isn’t going to close down the pipeline. The leak will get fixed but the creek won’t have the benefit of remediation u less the EPA comes in.
