{"id":10496,"date":"2015-07-29T06:35:50","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T11:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=10496"},"modified":"2015-07-29T06:35:50","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T11:35:50","slug":"evidence-released-at-transcanadas-keystone-xl-permit-renewal-hearing-sheds-light-on-serious-pipeline-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=10496","title":{"rendered":"Evidence Released at TransCanada\u2019s Keystone XL Permit Renewal Hearing Sheds Light On Serious Pipeline Risks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Evidence Released at TransCanada\u2019s Keystone XL Permit Renewal Hearing Sheds Light On Serious Pipeline Risks<\/a><\/h3>\n

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Just because TransCanada continually states that the Keystone\u00a0XL<\/span>\u00a0pipeline will be the safest pipeline ever built, doesn\u2019t mean it is true.<\/p>\n

The company\u2019s pipeline construction record is facing intense scrutiny in America\u2019s heartland, where many see no justifiable rationale to risk their water and agricultural lands for a\u00a0tar sands export pipeline<\/a>.<\/p>\n

New documents submitted as evidence in the Keystone\u00a0XL<\/span>\u00a0permitting process in South Dakota \u2014 including one\u00a0published here on DeSmog for the first time publicly<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 paint a troubling picture of the company\u2019s shoddy construction mishaps. This document, produced by TransCanada and signed by two company executives, details the results of its investigation into the \u201croot cause\u201d of the corrosion problems discovered on the Keystone\u00a0pipeline.<\/p>\n

TransCanada Corporation<\/a>\u00a0is continuing its push to build the northern route of the Keystone\u00a0XL<\/span>\u00a0pipeline. On July 27, the company appeared at a hearing in Pierre, South Dakota, to seek recertification of the Keystone\u00a0XL<\/span>construction permit that expired last\u00a0year.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Sou<\/a>th Dakota Public Utilities Commission<\/a>\u00a0must decide if TransCanada can guarantee it can build the pipeline under the conditions set in 2010, which it must do in order to have the permit\u00a0reapproved.<\/p>\n

High-profile spills and other incidents already tar TransCanada\u2019s safety record. The company faces at least two known ongoing investigations by the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA<\/span>). The incident records of thesouthern route of the Keystone\u00a0XL<\/span>\u00a0(renamed the Gulf Coast Pipeline)<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0the Keystone 1 Pipeline<\/a>\u00a0call into question TransCanada\u2019s claim that its pipelines are among the safest ever\u00a0built.<\/p>\n

Over the last couple of years TransCanada\u2019s public relations team, with the help of friendly regulators, have kept critical evidence away from the public and quashed many media\u00a0inquiries.<\/p>\n

But evidence of TransCanada\u2019s poor performance continues to emerge. Earlier this year, DeSmog obtained documents<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Evidence Released at TransCanada\u2019s Keystone XL Permit Renewal Hearing Sheds Light On Serious Pipeline Risks Just because TransCanada continually states that the Keystone\u00a0XL\u00a0pipeline will be the safest pipeline ever built, doesn\u2019t mean it is true. The company\u2019s pipeline construction record is facing intense scrutiny in America\u2019s heartland, where many see no justifiable rationale to risk […]<\/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":[5317,1030,1476,7626,782,1350],"class_list":["post-10496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-desmog-blog","tag-keystone-xl-pipeline","tag-pipelines","tag-south-dakota","tag-tarsands","tag-transcanada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10496","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=10496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10497,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10496\/revisions\/10497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}