TransCanada's safety record is best described as deplorable. It's existing pipeline, the Keystone 1, leaked 12 times in its first year of operation--the worst first-year safety record of any US pipeline. And because of the corrosive nature of hot diluted bitumen piped at high pressure, the number of Keystone spills over time can be expected to increase exponentially.
The worst of the Keystone 1 first year spills happened near Brampton, North Dakota. When a landowner reported the 60 foot geyser of tar sand crude, TransCanada's responders assumed he was joking and 21,000 gallons were spilled. TransCanada later shirked responsibility, saying that because it happened at a pump station it shouldn't count as a spill.
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