{"id":2835,"date":"2019-11-02T13:49:58","date_gmt":"2019-11-02T17:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=2835"},"modified":"2019-11-02T13:49:58","modified_gmt":"2019-11-02T17:49:58","slug":"olympic-sized-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=2835","title":{"rendered":"Olympic-Sized Fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/keystoneleak\/keystoneleak.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"border: 0px none; margin: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/keystoneleak\/keystoneleak650w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><strong>&#8220;Current incident estimates published by the company say that 9,120 US barrels (383,040 gallons) or &#8216;approximately half the size of an Olympic-sized swimming pool&#8217; of crude oil were released into an impacted area of 2,500 square yards&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2014Sputnik International, <a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.com\/environment\/201911011077193369-photo-keystone-pipeline-shut-down-after-leaking-383000-gallons-of-crude-oil-into-us-\/\" target=\"_blank\">11.01.2019<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We are responding to a crude oil release on the Keystone Pipeline System near our facilities near Edinburg, North Dakota. Please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/K2NppMFl0K\">https:\/\/t.co\/K2NppMFl0K<\/a> for the latest updates. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/l0M3i2oNzz\">pic.twitter.com\/l0M3i2oNzz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TC Energy (@TCEnergy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TCEnergy\/status\/1189709635315544064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 31, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<strong>This past week saw the latest \u2014 the <em>latest<\/em><\/strong> \u2014 rupture and spill on TransCanada&#8217;s Keystone Pipeline, this time to the tune of 383,000 gallons near the town of Edinburg, North Dakota&#8230; a big ol&#8217; Olympic-sized pool of Fail. Of course, it happened pretty much as predicted by the thousands of people who spoke up, protested, and tried to stop the pipeline from being built, and who are now designated as &#8220;terrorists&#8221; by the US Government.<\/p>\n<p><strong>11&#215;11 inch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/keystoneleak\/keystoneleak.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">medium-res .jpg image,<\/a> 874kb<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Current incident estimates published by the company say that 9,120 US barrels (383,040 gallons) or &#8216;approximately half the size of an Olympic-sized swimming pool&#8217; of crude oil were released into an impacted area of 2,500 square yards&#8230;&#8221; \u2014Sputnik International, 11.01.2019 We are responding to a crude oil release on the Keystone Pipeline System near our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[510,100,442,493],"class_list":["post-2835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-keystone","tag-oil","tag-olympics","tag-pipeline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2835"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2840,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835\/revisions\/2840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}