Massive Oil Leak Shows Why Nebraska Should Vote No on Keystone Pipeline

Environment America

Environment America’s Global Warming Director Andrea McGimsey issued the following statement in response to today’s Keystone Pipeline leak, when more than 200,000 gallons of oil leaked out of the pipeline in Amherst, South Dakota:

“Americans fought the Keystone Pipeline, because we knew it endangered our nation’s water and a stable climate. The Nebraska Public Service Commission should look to today’s disastrous leak as Exhibit A when commissioners decide in the coming week whether to allow Transcanada to extend this hazardous pipeline through their state. This latest disaster is an urgent reminder that we must stop building infrastructure for dangerous fossil fuels and transition to clean energy as soon as possible.”