From The Daily Caller
Michael Bastasch | Energy Editor
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.
Ocasio-Cortez, who recently introduced the Green New Deal resolution, also took aim at Wells Fargo’s financing of the Dakota Access Pipeline, which sparked violent protests along the project’s planned route throughout 2016. (RELATED: Greenpeace Tries To Erase Inconvenient Co-Founder From History)
U.S. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks about the first few months of her tenure in congress with Briahna Gray at the South by Southwest (SXSW) conference and festivals in Austin, Texas, U.S., March 9, 2019. REUTERS/Sergio Flores.
Like Keystone XL, the Trump administration reversed the Obama administration’s blocking of the project. Dakota Access went into service in 2017. TransCanada had plans to begin building the Keystone XL pipeline later this year, but a February federal court ruling could delay construction until 2020.
Ocasio-Cortez also grilled Wells Fargo’s Sloan over their financing of the Dakota Access Pipeline, asking the bank CEO if his company should be responsible for cleaning up any oil spills. The freshman Democrat also claimed the Dakota Access pipeline has leaked five times since it began operating two years ago.
“So, hypothetically, if there was a leak from the Dakota Access Pipeline, why shouldn’t Wells Fargo pay for the cleanup of it, since it paid for the construction of the pipeline itself?” Ocasio-Cortez asked in Tuesday’s hearing.
“We don’t operate the pipeline, we provide financing to the company that’s operating the pipeline,” Sloan said, also noting Wells Fargo had an environmental oversight group.
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I believe she gets her exercise jumping to conclusions.
And I thought her exercise came from placing the Cart before the horse
Of course, if all goes as it should, her exercise will come from futility
AOC is a pure clueless nitwit.
Cenk Unger from the Young Turks helped in forming the Justice Democrats and held casting calls for socialist faces to primary establishment Democrats.
https://youtu.be/1h5iv6sECGU
Oh wait, I’m just spouting another conspiracy fact…
Yes she is, Sam.
She has a degree in economics and international relations from Boston College. Yet, it appears she learned little and understands less.
It is not fair to the individual student to be graded and passed and graduated because of any reasons beyond merit and adequate performance in learning as indicated by successful performance on test taking.
Not basing passing grades and graduation upon merit leaves the student ignorant, happy that they passed, and incompetent in real world problem solving and understanding.
Hence the turn to socialism/communism to make them feel as good as anyone else.
I Googled about this, and it appears to me that AOC got the name of the pipeline that leaked a little wrong. It is similar. I expect she’ll surely hear about that.
We should forgive AOC for what is clearly an honest mistake.
They’re easy to make when you’re ignorant and arrogant.
plus 42 Tredecillion
With respect LH, (and I assume that your comment was sarc), +none. Ignorant and arrogant can be amusing when they have no authority. But ignorance coupled with arrogance from someone in a position of power is dangerous and is a disease that can spread.
Ouch, the arrogance has become a prerequisite of authority. It’s the accompanying naivete and lack of education that this woman displays which rings alarm bells. She is a pretty spokesperson for elitist billionaires, if my gut feeling proves right.
Well, Louis, she crtainly is ignorant and arrogant. But doesn’t she have lovely eyes?
Yet she is incredibly dangerous.
Look down for a second and consider the bite those teeth might inflict if you disappoint her.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDEL4Ty950Q
[In the future, please add a comment to explain what the link is, rather than simply pasting the link by itself. For those wondering, this is a clip from Office Space. -mod]
Using her logic we should be holding accountable whomever paid for her ‘education’ .
I am just sooooo sick of this idiot.
Agreed, Bob.
But on the other hand she is a gift that keeps on giving. Undecided voters will be deciding the 2020 election. As long as she keeps spouting her drivel, she will continue to push moderate voters away from the uber-radical democratic party.
I’m with you and will add that the extreme Lefties are splitting the Democrats.
I doubt that…. It’s too easy (or too dangerous not to) to go with the “green slime flow”. Why bother thinking if someone does it for you, for FREE? 🤣
Just send your liberal democrat representative an email stating
If AOC continues to speak out as she has been allowed to, you will strongly consider voting Republican at the next elections.
OR
You were considering reregistering and Voting Democrat BUT seeing as how the Party has allowed its junior member AOC to speak out as she has been, you are strongly reconsidering the option.
Just read that the Unions have come out against the GND. If the Democrats lose the union backing they lose the union Billions in campaign contributions.
I think Bob is right Spuds, We could very well see Blue Collar Democrats split of and form a Labor party that is more moderate towards Business realizing that without a healthy economy you can’t have healthy jobs.
Her picture does not do her justice; we NEED to see her big teeth, to tell for sure that it is her.
I am afraid there are a lot of voters who buy into her nonsense; about as many as buy into Climate Feverism. They don’t know what Socialism is, but figure it’s somehow related to Social media, and everybody knows how great Facebook, Twitter, and SnapChat are!
OCD, Occasional-Cortex Disorder
I notice that Ms. OCD is rather fond of lipstick. Perhaps she would enjoy reading an article entitled “Petroleum Product of the Week: Lipstick” which can be found here: https://petroleumservicecompany.com/blog/lipstick-petroleum-product/
This way, she can avoid the embarrassment of mentioning “dirty oil” and cosmetics in the same sentence. Just trying to help.
Great point Trebla
And 8000 products we currently use of are intermediates for other products.
AOC = Always Overt Conflation.
By the way, that used to be my party she’s making look bad.
It used to be embarrassing to hear AOC make so many “mistakes”, but now I wonder if she is just quite happy to make stuff up to get a headline. The fact all of these “mistakes” are calculated to become nice soundbites that get repeated on various kinds of media makes me quite certain that they are in fact quite deliberate.
I used to love it when Gracie Allen got things mixed up. Somehow I don’t feel the same about AOC. Maybe that’s because I’m a Groucho Marxist and not the other kind.
commieBob
America has it’s very own Diane Abbott aka ‘Flabopotamus’. Welcome to the socialist zone!
Diane is the Shadow Home Secretary for the Labour party (socialists).
This is the standard she conforms to. Try not to laugh too much, it’s undignified to mock the afflicted.
https://youtu.be/w-Syo86gsHk
Ouch. I couldn’t watch the whole thing.
At least Dan Quayle’s gaffes were short and to the point. I think he may have been a closet Groucho Marxist.
I would love to see a running compilation of AOC’s and Ilhan Omar’s 10 greatest hits. The only problem is that it would need constant updating as both appear to be afflicted with foot-in-mouth disease.
That was so embarrassing I could not watch it. How could this woman remain in power?
Ken
She’s not actually in power, she’s a shadow minister, in other words a member of the majority opposition to the government.
However, were Labour (socialists) to win, a General Election she would take the reigns as Home Secretary in charge of domestic policy, ironically, Policing, amongst others.
Those are only her more outrageous gaffes, she appears regularly on radio and TV making an utter fool of herself but because she’s black and female she’s given a free pass.
Our Labour government is also under serious scrutiny for their institutionalised anti Semitic behaviour. At their last conference a group were photographed at a Palestinian support group waving Palestinian flags as a rousing Palestinian speech was delivered.
Strangely and entirely ‘co-incidentally’ the Conservative government have recently come under attack for being institutionally anti Islamic. You will of course note, not anti Muslim, but it will doubtless be turned to that.
I have never really bothered with politics during my life but the last few years has opened my eyes to the depths socialists will sink to in order to seize power.
Tragically, far too many people don’t understand that were it not for Capitalism, they would be wearing rags, starving and subservient to elite politicians.
I suspect she is one of those useful-idiot puppets with someone pulling her strings from behind the curtain. If what she says resonates with the ecovoters so much the better (for the puppeteer), if she looks the fool her fall is her own.
Of course she is. Who else makes a better puppet than a not-unattractive young bartender with a Latin name?
Maybe it’s the “O” that starts a last name that people find attractive?
Examples:
Obama
O’Rourke
Jus’ sayin’…. 🙂
Oy Vey!
That opinion does exist. link YMMV, cum grano salis, etc.
+1000
She is in a race to win her next election. All of this dribble is getting her on the news so she can say “Look how hard I worked for you against these corporate gods” There is no down side for AOC with her supporters, and the dumb. Many are seeing the politics of this and are voting for Trump.
I am blessed that I was born in the USA.
Mac
AOC has said something stupid? Again? What a surprise.
Honorary Blonde
She would give “Blonde” a bad name
Always Outspokenly Confused
+1 Nice
I read on this on another website.
We need another hat, a MABA hat. “Make AOC Bartend Again” hat
Just saw on a FB comment: MAGA, make Alexandria go away.
She is simply an actress, reading her scripted lines. She was casted after her brother answered an ad (along with 10,000 other applicants) for people interested in running in the primaries.
That organization paid for her makeover, campaign media, etc, etc.
When she goes off-script, that’s when it gets funky and her ignorance really shines.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=mr+regan&t=ffnt&ia=videos&iax=videos&iai=1h5iv6sECGU
This is an excellent link to watch and is the only believable explanation as to her rise and lack of personal knowledge, yet getting into congress.
Also, if accurate, it paints a picture of how radical organization can gain power,
It’s accurate
“hypothetically, if there was a leak from the Dakota Access Pipeline, why shouldn’t Wells Fargo pay for the cleanup of it, since it paid for the construction of the pipeline itself?” Ocasio-Cortez asked in Tuesday’s hearing.”
So if a solar panel on my roof flies off and damages another house, the finance company that gave me the money for the panels should pay for the clean up. Got it.
Wells Fargo didn’t pay for the construction of the pipeline in the first place. They provided a loan to the company that did pay for it.
Is there anything this congresswoman knows that is actually true?
Remember Reagan’s classic on the subject:
Timeless truths….
The scary thing is that she supposedly got a degree in economics from a prestigious university. Either she needs a tuition refund or the university’s reputation is shot (or should be).
Hypothetically, if an stupid person got elected…
It’s same reason that Wells Fargo won’t pay to clean up the water that leaked into our house during a particularly severe thunderstorm yesterday.
Exactly, but sorry about your storm damage. Wells Fargo is reasonable to rely on the construction and operating permits to have reviewed the advisability to have constructed and operated the pipeline. Remember everyone, one of the rules of litigation is “go after the deep pockets”.
Perhaps you could get AOC to pay for it since she didn’t legislate against it…She is obviously responsible
Future statistics from the IPCC will be revised to show that the Keystone Pipeline did in fact leak millions of gallons before it was built.
If you deny this you are a racist.
Nope, can’t happen.
They never adjust the past to be higher.
Her stupidity is so profound it would be funny, except that even dumber people listen to her.
And even more astonishing is that her handlers are telling her to say these idiotic things.
Notice when she is challenged and has to go off-script. She’s not smart enough to respond, so she changes the subject.
A parrot can only squawk the words it knows.
She’s a trendy, flashy sock puppet for The Sunrise Movement. Funded by Rockefeller shillings.
https://capitalresearch.org/article/sunrise-movement-wont-let-the-sun-go-down-on-the-green-new-deal/
Careful pop, you are flirting with conspiracy theory 🙄
Uh oh. How dare you to genuine research and point out evidence of major world players actively manipulating government affairs.
Reg, while you are right that she does not now nor probably ever did or ever will have a logical, reasonable, substantive, tangible, or irrefutable though (as she, the actress, is being fed ideas), these “things” are NOT idiotic. They are meant to be a distraction and keep us focused on the wrong things, including her. She is NOTHING more than the visible hand of the magician or Blacks distraction in this chess game we call politics. Black KNOWS the GND will never be implemented. That is NOT the objective.
And we Brits thought that Teresa May and her “not really Brexit” Brexit deal was stupid. Commiserations to our fellows across the pond. AOC can stupid for the world. May only stupids for the EU.
UK Sceptic
I have posted a link to a youtube video of Diane Abbott’s finest moments above for the entertainment of our American (and other) friends.
This is what they have to look forward to from AOC.
I don’t think we should give the dim and grim AOC ideas that might rival Ms Abbott’s super-dense Hypocrisy Singularity. We wouldn’t be thanked for it.
On the other hand Diane’s dismal attempts to get a grip on facts and figures will be amusing to anyone with an IQ greater than her waistband.
how do you generally measure that over there?
cm would be way too high for that babbling waste of oxygen.
English units.
(inches)
+ 10, UK Sceptic.
It would be one thing if the only people suffering were the idiots who elected her, but she has a chance to spread mayhem across the continent as a member of the majority party in the House.
It’s appalling that the very thing keeping May’s Tories In Name Only in power is the chilling idea that the TINO replacement would be a Marxist government led by Jeremy Corbyn and policed by Momentum thugs.
We are literally caught between a frock and a hard left place.
Only a disintegrated party would allow a freshman to take the lead out of pure desperation.
Nancy is jealous at this point.
It’s a “word salad” that is made up of poison ivy and hemlock. She doesn’t have to be factually “correct” whatsoever or understand existing environmental regulations. Such things do not apply to her narrative. As far as the caging of children goes, she should turn to her fellow democrats like Rep. Jim McGovern who visited such sites during the Obama years and wrote about it approvingly on his website. That story has mysteriously “disappeared”… However I have a number of screenshots and so do others.
Spuds
The wayback machine may have the website in its entirety.
Only until the ministry of truth figures out how to make corrections to the wayback machine.
AOC is going on the Tinkerbell Principle, that people thinking ungreen thoughts, like building a pipeline, cause environmental harm. It doesn’t matter that the actual pipeline hasn’t been built yet, it is the thought that counts.
So keep thinking green thoughts, like Ocasio Cortez, and keep Tinkerbell alive.
Tom Halla
Tell her the pipeline is to be stopped and road tankers used instead. Sounds like she’ll fall for it.
No, crude will be carried by high-speed rail instead. Just have to build it and in the case of Hawaii, it will prevent a pipeline from going in.
Just build a high speed rail tunnel like the one between Britain and France!
(30 miles. 3,000 miles. What’s the difference?)
2970 miles.
About 15 hours travel time at 200mph
And a tube that can withstand the immense pressure at that depth
Musk will figure it out and we’ll have Blaine the Mono real soon
Where does all of that makeup come from? Or which mine I mean?
She needs to ditch the lipstick, it looks like she bit someone.
But it adds to her porn star image, which she uses to attract voters.
“Not a lot of people look good in red lipstick, and those that do, usually juggle for a living.” -Maddox
the lipstick on a pig line comes to mind;-)
“For the same reason the voters from your unenlightened borough won’t get the bill for your GND, my dear”
Mixing up Keystone and Keystone XL does not strike me as particularly stupid. Unlike the Green New Deal, which is stunning in its foolishness.
People should also be a little concerned about throwing stones on an error like this if they’re supporting a president who has trouble keeping track of more important facts.
Agree that the mix up of similar pipelines is not the issue, though it makes for a flashy headline. The fact that the headline is technically correct differentiates it from most of the garbage AGW headlines.
“So, hypothetically, if there was a leak from the Dakota Access Pipeline, why shouldn’t Wells Fargo pay for the cleanup of it, since it paid for the construction of the pipeline itself?” Ocasio-Cortez asked in Tuesday’s hearing.
“We don’t operate the pipeline, we provide financing to the company that’s operating the pipeline,” Sloan said, also noting Wells Fargo had an environmental oversight group.
Once, just once, I’d love to hear a witness say, “Excuse me Mam, but is that a serious question?”
I thought the same thing David–I could easily mix up “Keystone and Keystone XL.” Even if she is supposed to know before she asks–reps have to “know” so many facts and if they don’t have good aids, I can see it happening. Don’t get me wrong–I do think she is “Alexandria Occasionally Coherent,” as has been noted on this web site before.
I would have booted up a laptop, turned on Google Earth, zoomed to the exact Township that the spill happened, and then challenged her to point out where it happened. Then asked her if she had any point to make at all or if she were just wasting my time on the nation’s dime.
Bonus points if you can point it out.
https://www.google.com/maps/@45.7097869,-97.8659244,10513m/data=!3m1!1e3
only a silly denier would be bothered by causality
If every bad thing that happens in America can be traced to a loan from a bank and banks are responsible then banks would cease to exist. But the plan all along might be for banks to disappear and be part of the government. Occasional Cortex not only is tipping her hand on what socialists really want, they are spilling the cards all over the table.
Wow…
I hope AOC’s team of handlers continue to neglect instructing her of even rudimentary commercial law….
AOC is extremely ignorant on pretty much everything. It’s astounding, really..
What would you expect? She was a bartender 10 seconds ago…
Could you imagine a country where frigging banks would be held financially liable for 3rd-party product liability lawsuits to whom they happened to have loaned money??? LOL!
I hope AOC continues to be MSM’s darling.
She is a gift that keeps on giving.
You go, girl! You’re doin’ a hellava job re-electing Trump.
And if Wells Fargo had refused to issue debt instruments to the corrupt Puerto Rican government, they would be immediately be branded as racists.
Banks refusing to loan to minorities who weren’t qualified is what led to the recent financial meltdown.
I think you got that backward. The Dems under Clinton required banks to lower their standards because too many minorities weren’t qualifying (it’s racism, don’t you know) and so the inevitable happened when the economy had a little bump in the road.
Banks refusing to loan to people who weren’t qualified was why the Democrats ordered the banks to lower their standards.
The banks standards, not the Democrats standards. Everyone knows that Democrats don’t have standards.
Yep. Here’s a crude but good explanation:
https://www.slideshare.net/guestd5ab54/the-subprime-primer
AOC is an example of what results after four years of Leftist indoctrination which was masquerading as a college education. That this same sort of thing is happening to many of our children is a threat to American freedom and prosperity.
Soros funded airhead spouts nonsense, betrays complete ignorance of how business works, is tipped for future President.
At least the liar orange clown has some experience.
We live in the most interesting times.
The Democrats, with their preda-tort bar supporters, are always looking for the deepest pocket book to sue.
If you followed AO-C’s logic, then banks and credit unions would be liable for auto-accidents on cars that they hold a bank loan on. Of course such a system of shared liability would then instantly make bank loans un-affordable and/or completely un-available.
“No Representative Ocasio. If we became responsible for such problems, based on our lending associations, it would create a very complicated precedent.
For example, a college degree is an indication that the holder of the degree has the capacity to understand the theory associated with the degree program; it is an indication of competence. But, with respect to you, your current position, and your ability to do harm, Boston University would have such unlimited liability that they would have to revoke your degree.
So, no, no competent or reasonable person would assume liability on our part. I can only think that such an assertion or assumption would be related to some sort of political stunt.”
Maybe in the future her “Central Committee”, the white-guy in Tennessee and the india-guy (illegal?) in NYC, will get more on the ball and pass something legitimate to her to spout about!
Ha ha 😀