Letters to the Editor Thursday, Feb. 9 – Four, from readers in Rotterdam, Schenectady, Scotia, Amsterdam

WOW! F___youBiden, running at a full head of steam today!
The other attention whores can’t get words in edgewise, it seems.

One thing that stands out from the broken sewer line that is today’s Sermon on Loonacy is this:

“American citizens are seeing first hand…”

It seems (still don’t know the gender preference) it thinks that all Americans are hopping into the Clown Bus with them. The Great Awakening! NOW, ALL Americans can see that Donald Trump was right!

Wrong, jackass. When you start winning popular votes maybe all Americans will ‘see first hand’ whatever it is you imagine. But various flavors of your social paranoia have been around for over a hundred years and it ALWAYS turns out the same way: you eventually trundle back into your caves muttering about your persecution to await the next opportunist to try top make money off you (and that part usually works!)

Just in to the “Drill, baby, drill! desk, in cooperation with the “Trump for Keystone and Energy Independence!” PAC…

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KEYSTONE PIPELINE OWNER BLAMES KANSAS SPILL ON FAULTY WELD, ESTIMATES $480M REMEDIATION COST
Allison Kite, Kansas Reflector
February 09, 2023

TOPEKA — The Keystone oil pipeline’s massive spill in northern Kansas was likely caused by a faulty welding job, the company that owns the pipeline said Thursday.

Federal regulators in December ordered Canada-based TC Energy to investigate the cause of the spill in Washington County, which dumped oil onto adjacent farmland and into Mill Creek.
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REGULATORS ORDER KEYSTONE PIPELINE TO INVESTIGATE AFTER 14,000 BARRELS SPILL IN KANSAS
The spill is the largest since the pipeline started operating in 2010
By: Allison Kite – December 9, 2022 12:41 pm

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Federal regulators have ordered operators to temporarily shut down part of the Keystone Pipeline in northern Kansas after it spilled 14,000 barrels of crude oil. The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration issued a corrective action order, its strictest enforcement, Thursday evening. It orders the pipeline’s operators to conduct an investigation before they can resume operations.
In a statement Friday, TC Energy, which owns the 2,687-mile Keystone Pipeline, said it had been working closely with regulators, local officials, landowners, tribal nations and the community at-large. “Over the last several years, we have taken decisive action to implement measures to strengthen our approach to safety and the integrity of our system and will conduct a full investigation into the root cause of this incident in cooperation with regulators,” the statement says.
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The spill occurred close to Washington, Kansas, near the Nebraska border, dumping oil into Mill Creek. Environmental Protection Agency coordinators were dispatched to the scene Thursday along with state and local crews. TC Energy said in a news release Thursday evening that the segment of Mill Creek where the oil spilled had been isolated to prevent it from flowing downstream.

The EPA said Friday the oil was contained within three miles of the pipeline burst and no drinking water had been impacted.
Zack Pistora, a lobbyist for the Sierra Club in Kansas, said it was a “shame that this has happened once again on the Keystone Pipeline. It’s a shame because Mill Creek will probably never be the same,” Pistora said.
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KEYSTONE PIPELINE HAS HISTORY OF SPILLS, WARNINGS AND FINES. KANSAS SPILL IS LARGEST YET.
14,000 barrels spilled into creek and farmland; 2,598 barrels of oil and water removed as of Monday
By: Allison Kite – December 13, 2022 2:50 pm

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Federal regulators have issued warnings repeatedly over the life of the Keystone pipeline that operators aren’t doing enough to prevent corrosion and don’t follow proper construction procedures. But despite a history of warnings and large spills, the Keystone pipeline failed again last week, dumping 14,000 barrels — or 588,000 gallons — of oil in northern Kansas. It’s the largest spill since the pipeline began operations about a decade ago. After more than 20 spills, the crude oil pipeline’s Canadian owner, TC Energy, has paid just over $300,000 fines. That’s 0.2% of the more than $111 million in property damage it has caused. That doesn’t include the damage from its latest spill, which has yet to be totaled.

“This has been a long-standing systemic problem,” Kenneth Clarkson, a spokesman for Pipeline Safety Trust, said in a statement. “The fines are just not meaningful to these extremely profitable operators.”

The Keystone pipeline carries crude oil from Canada to Texas and Illinois with one branch running across northeast Kansas and another south through central Kansas. The system drew controversy for years because of a proposed extension, called the Keystone XL Pipeline, which would have run through Montana, South Dakota and Nebraska before tying into the existing system near the Kansas border. In its history, the pipeline has spilled more than 26,000 barrels of oil, including last week’s spill, which is larger than all its others combined. It occurred near Washington, Kansas, not far from the Nebraska border. Oil sprayed onto farmland and flowed into Mill Creek, turning the water black.
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF KEYSTONE ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE:
In 2016, about 400 barrels (64 m3) were released from the original Keystone pipe network via leaks, which federal investigators said resulted from a “weld anomaly”.

On November 17, 2017, the pipeline leaked around 9,600 barrels (1,530 m3) onto farmland near Amherst, South Dakota. The oil leak is the largest seen from the Keystone pipeline in the state. In April 2018, a federal investigation found that 408,000 US gallons (1,540 m3) of crude had spilled at the site, almost twice what TransCanada had reported. That number made it the seventh-largest onshore oil spill since 2002.

In April 2018, Reuters reviewed documents that showed that Keystone had “leaked substantially more oil, and more often, in the United States than the company indicated to regulators in risk assessments before operations began in 2010.”

On October 31, 2019, a rupture occurred near Edinburg, North Dakota, spilling an estimated 9,120 barrels (1,450 m3) where the 45,000 US gallons (170 m3) that were not recovered from the 0.5 acre containment have spread contaminating 5 acres. This occurred while the South Dakota Water Management Board was in the middle of hearings on whether or not to allow TC Energy to use millions of gallons of water to build camps to house temporary construction workers for Keystone XL construction.

F___youBiden:

-My name’s ChuckD, and I’ll call you what we all know you really mean. Unless you want to give a more acceptable name to use.

-I am free from being told what’s a sin, what’s forgivable and what’s not, and how many points I need to get into heaven. I was born and raised and educated to have a conscience that closely follows your Golden Rule.

-Spare us the “pro life” BS. You’re not “pro life” at all, and the implication that others are “anti-life” and are murderers is disgusting and sick and has no place in civil discourse. How could possibly expect to succeed with that tactic.

Again, how do his victims feel about his God-given forgiveness?