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Wow. oil companies are almost as great at making money as they are terrible at cleaning up their messes when things go wrong. just about exactly two years ago, a pipeline ruptured along michigan's kalamazoo river. the company that owned the pipeline had ignored cracks and corrosion in the pipe for five years. when the pipe finally and perhaps inevitably gave out, the company did not respond or even realize anything had gone wrong for 17 hours after it broke. by that time, more than 800,000 gallons of tar sands oil had spilled into the river. tar sands oil is not like regular crude oil. it sink...

Have no freaking clue how to clean up tar pap sans oil when that spills. crude oil generally floats to the top of it water where some of it can be scrapes off. tarsans oil sinks to the bottom of whatever it's in. how do you get it off the bottom of a riverbed? good question. they saw their pristine river turned into a test bed for how to clean up the oil spills. the best they could come up with was to literally shake the river bed, to agitate the river bed with big machines in order to try to make the oil timperary rise to the top where they could get at it. sorry, michigan, that's all we've g...

Canada, and as it turns out, we have no freaking clue how to clean up tar pap sans oil when that spills. crude oil generally floats to the top of it water where some of it can be scrapes off. tarsans oil sinks to the bottom of whatever it's in. how do you get it off the bottom of a riverbed? good question. they saw their pristine river turned into a test bed for how to clean up the oil spills. the best they could come up with was to literally shake the river bed, to agitate the river bed with big machines in order to try to make the oil timperary rise to the top where they could get at it. sor...

The top of it water where some of it can be scrapes off. tar sands oil sinks to the bottom of whatever it's in. how do you get it off the bottom of a riverbed? good question. they saw their pristine river turned into a test bed for how to clean up the oil spills. the best they could come up with was to literally shake the river bed, to agitate the river bed with big machines in order to try to make the oil temporarily rise to the top where they could get at it. sorry, michigan, that's all we've got. ultimately, the people who lived along the kalamazoo river didn't have to wait one month, two m...

Problem with the kind of oil spill there, and with the kind of oil that would run through keystone is that most of it doesn't sit on the surface where it can be boomed up and scooped up. this oil sinks. on the occasion of the keystone vote this week, mother jones and this canadian paper on the screen have been writing about the kalamazoo river spill, explaining tar sand oil is thick and heavy, and has to be diluted with a noxious chemical cocktail so it can flow in the pipe. when spilled, the dilutant evaporates. residents reported naus sha, burning eyes in the throat. it separates from the di...