{"id":10179,"date":"2015-07-18T08:29:49","date_gmt":"2015-07-18T13:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=10179"},"modified":"2015-07-18T08:29:49","modified_gmt":"2015-07-18T13:29:49","slug":"nexens-brand-new-double-layered-pipeline-just-ruptured-causing-one-of-the-biggest-oil-spills-ever-in-alberta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=10179","title":{"rendered":"Nexen\u2019s Brand New, Double-Layered Pipeline Just Ruptured, Causing One of the Biggest Oil Spills Ever in Alberta"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nexen\u2019s Brand New, Double-Layered Pipeline Just Ruptured, Causing One of the Biggest Oil Spills Ever in Alberta<\/a><\/h3>\n

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A pipeline at Nexen Energy\u2019s Long Lake oilsands facility southeast of Fort McMurray, Alberta, spilled about five million liters (32,000 barrels or some 1.32 million gallons) of emulsion, a mixture of bitumen, sand and water, Wednesday afternoon \u2014 marking one of the largest spills in Alberta history.<\/p>\n

According to\u00a0reports<\/a>, the spill covered as much as 16,000 square meters (almost 4 acres). The emulsion leaked from a \u201cfeeder\u201d pipe that connects a wellhead to a processing\u00a0plant.<\/p>\n

At a press conference Thursday, Ron Bailey, Nexen vice president of Canadian operations, said the company \u201csincerely apologize[d] for the impact this has caused.\u201d He confirmed the double-layered pipeline is a part of Nexen’s new system and that the line’s emergency detection system failed to alert officials to the breach, which was discovered during a visual\u00a0inspection.<\/p>\n

At this time, the company claims to have the leak under control, according to\u00a0CBC<\/span>\u00a0News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Nexen’s “failsafe” system didn’t detect massive pipeline spill: http:\/\/<\/span>wp.me\/p2Y4rw-8SFH\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The spill comes at a particularly bad time for Canada\u2019s premiers, who are poised to sign an agreement three years in the making to\u00a0fast-track the approval process for new oil sands pipelines<\/a>\u00a0while weakening commitments to fight climate change, according to Mike Hudema, a climate and energy campaigner for Greenpeace.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs provincial premiers talk about ways to streamline the approval process for new tar sands pipelines, we have a stark reminder of how dangerous they can be,\u201d Hudema said in a\u00a0statement<\/a>. \u201cThis leak is also a good reminder that Alberta has a long way to go to address its pipeline problems and that communities have good reasons to fear having more built.\u201d
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Nexen\u2019s Brand New, Double-Layered Pipeline Just Ruptured, Causing One of the Biggest Oil Spills Ever in Alberta A pipeline at Nexen Energy\u2019s Long Lake oilsands facility southeast of Fort McMurray, Alberta, spilled about five million liters (32,000 barrels or some 1.32 million gallons) of emulsion, a mixture of bitumen, sand and water, Wednesday afternoon \u2014 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[1082,1642,103,141,5317,7370,369,7369,588,4523,1523,628,781],"class_list":["post-10179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-alberta","tag-bitumen","tag-canada","tag-climate-change","tag-desmog-blog","tag-emulsion","tag-global-warming","tag-nexen-energy","tag-oil","tag-oil-sands","tag-oil-spill","tag-pipeline","tag-tar-sands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10180,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10179\/revisions\/10180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}