Coming just a week after Canada’s foreign minister traveled to Washington, D.C., and called on the Obama administration to make a decision on Keystone XL pipeline, the results of a new paper's analysis contradict the oil industry’s claims that the safety of pipelines can be ensured through existing measures. According to the Wall Street Journal, which looked at data on 251 spills that occurred on private property, the industry's pipeline monitoring equipment was the first to detect a leak in just 19.5 percent of incidents.