Weve known about these issues for two years, says Jane Kleeb, the director of Bold Nebraska, a nonprofit formed by ranchers and others to prevent the Keystone XL. Landowners called and told us about all these sections of pipe that kept having to be pulled out of the ground and replaced. She says the problems did not require an engineers eye to detect: pipes in trenches that were too shallow; pipes laid over visible rocks pressing against the metal tubes; faulty welds that didn’t seal. Having seen what they saw of the construction process, several landowners Ive spoken to live in fear that a major spill could happen any day.
Posted on: Sat, 31 May 2014 12:30:00 +0000
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