DC: Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez blamed the Keystone XL pipeline for leaking about 5,000 barrels of oil in rural South Dakota about two years ago.
There’s just one problem: The Keystone XL pipeline has not been built yet.
During a House hearing Tuesday, Ocasio-Cortez claimed that “Keystone XL, in particular, had one leak that leaked 210,000 gallons across South Dakota” while she questioned Wells Fargo president and CEO Timothy Sloan.
Ocasio-Cortez probably confused the Keystone XL pipeline with the Keystone pipeline, which has been operating since 2010. Keystone XL is still under construction, but would also bring oil sands from Canada to Nebraska where it would connect to existing pipeline.
Environmentalists spent years opposing the Keystone XL pipeline, filing court challenges and successfully lobbying former President Barack Obama to personally reject the project in late 2015. President Donald Trump reversed that decision in early 2017, but Keystone XL’s progress has since been delayed by activist lawsuits.
The existing Keystone pipeline, however, was responsible for leaking up to 9,700 barrels in South Dakota in 2017. The initial estimate for the spill was about 5,000 barrels, or 210,000 gallons of oil. Both Keystone and the planned XL line are operated by Canadian pipeline giant TransCanada.
TransCanada said it repaired the pipeline and cleaned-up the spill, Reuters reported in 2018, though the event has been used by environmental activists to gin up opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline. more
I’m like, you know?
AOC has sniffed one bar rag too many.
I watched that segment of her questioning. She asked the CEO of Wells Fargo if the bank should be responsible for paying for clean up of an oil spill since they were helping finance the pipeline.
No doubt he was thinking WTF is this chick smoking?
She’d go to Palin’s house to check out Russia from the porch. I bet she organized the #StopKony rally at her H.S. and still believes the story about that cactus that burst open, spilling out millions of baby tarantulas. The unbridled passion of youth is a terrible thing to waste. It makes you feels so alive!/s
That girl is dumb.
“You are dumb.
You are really, really dumb.
Fo’ real.”
watch how her gaff becomes common knowledge among her supporters
How did this nitwit get out of high school?
No doubt due to all the Keystones that bar hag served up in her low-rent beer tending daze…
It’s all about how they “feel” facts are merely pesky detours to get around. This bimbo exists in a world that only manifests in her undeveloped and oxygen starved brain.
she is running a close second to the congressman who asked the admiral if the island of Guam would tip over if more troops were stationed there. should probably change her name from AOC to BOR (box of rocks)
Ummmm, let’s see, hank johnson has been representing Georgia’s 4th district for 12 years now! Saying stupid shiite does not disqualify leftists.
“Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.” Geo. Orwell
Soros squawking parrot
Sandy wants a cracker
Spazzy as a ferret
Makes you wanna smack her…
She has a future in comedy and porn.
AOC does Dallas.
Deep Throat AOC.
Dumb and Dumber II.
The Jerk II.
Driving Miss Daisy (Crazy).
Invasion of the Body Snatch-ers.
Her stupidity is becoming irksome. “Wells Fargo did not operate the pipeline and is no more responsible for cleaning up an oil spill than we are for repairing your roof if you have your mortgage with us or repairing your car after you wrap it around a tree if you have an auto loan with us.”
How does she remember to breath?
Pipelines continue to have a much better safety record than rail or tankers; what’s their fucking problem?
I’m not sure but wasn’t that leak due to some Enviro-Nutjobs’ sabotage? I know they arrested a bunch of them for sabotage of some pipeline.