Just yesterday the TransCanada Keystone pipeline spilled 210,000 gallons of oil in South Dakota. This comes at a crucial time as the Public Service Commission of Nebraska is about to decide on a permit for the proposed expansion of this fossil fuel conduit: the Keystone XL pipeline. Oil pipelines, including Keystone XL itself, are a subject that has been frequently addressed here on The Otter – La Loutre in the last few years. To help put pipeline spills – and their inevitability – in perspective, here are some selected posts:
Sean Kheraj – Tracking Canada’s History of Oil Pipeline Spills (November 8, 2013)
Sean Kheraj – Indigenous Voices and Resistance in Oil Pipeline History: The Dene Tha’ and the Norman Wells Pipeline (November 18, 2016)
Phil Wight – Down the Line: Exploring the Environmental History of Pipelines (January 23, 2017)
Down the Line: Exploring the Environmental History of Pipelines
Jessica Helps – Embedded Wounds in the Histories of Pipelines and Petro-Chemicals (November 10, 2014)
Embedded Wounds in the Histories of Pipelines and Petro-chemicals
Daniel Macfarlane: Funneling Controversy: The Keystone XL Pipeline (November 28, 2011)
Daniel Macfarlane – Teaching Media Literacy Through Environmental Disaster: The Kalamazoo River Oil Spill (January 18, 2017)
Teaching Media Literacy Through Environmental Disaster: The Kalamazoo River Oil Spill


Latest posts by Daniel Macfarlane (see all)
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- The First Century of the International Joint Commission - February 26, 2020
- Book Launch: The First Century of the IJC - January 19, 2020
- An Interview with Dave Dempsey author of “The Heart of the Lakes” - June 25, 2019
- Interview with Andrew Reeves author of “Overrun: Dispatches from the Asian Carp Crisis” - May 7, 2019
- Paddling through the Past - March 12, 2019
- Environmental Historians Debate: Can Nuclear Power Solve Climate Change? - January 29, 2019
- The End (and Middle) of History: Environment and Politics in Flint’s Water Crisis - December 6, 2018