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Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline: The Facts Deserve Repeating | OnEarth Magazine - 0 views

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Pipeline oil industry Keystone XL

shared by Stephen Boyle on 13 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • the majority of the processed oil was already scheduled for export to foreign countries. That's' right, this Keystone XL pipeline's Canadian tar sands oil would have no positive impact whatsoever on America's national security.
  • Canada wanted to send the dirtiest oil on the planet through the heart of America so that they could access export routes. And they proposed getting there by bringing the pipeline right over the Ogallala Aquifer, one of America's most important repositories of fresh water. Along the route, Democrats and Republicans alike opposed it.Nocera never mentioned that a first pipeline just like the proposed Keystone XL, built by the same foreign company, TransCanada, had over 12 spills in the U.S. (30 if you count Canada) in just its first year of operation. Some of those spills have yet to be cleaned up.
  • In fact, when it comes to jobs and the Keystone XL pipeline, the State Department estimated it would create only 20 permanent jobs and about 5-6,000 temporary construction jobs... not the hundred thousand jobs proponents of the tar sands pipeline have been citing.The Keystone XL pipeline doesn't deliver on jobs or national security, it jeopardizes public health and safety and the president was right to reject it. And tar sands are not just "a little dirtier" than traditional crude as Nocera notes. Producing synthetic crude oil from tar sands generates three times the global warming pollution and the extraction process uses vast amounts of energy and water.
  • Stephen Boyle on 13 Feb 12
     
    The Senate is dredging up Keystone XL as if it is a matter of national safety - actually the dirtiest oil is planning to plow a path through an American fresh water repository.
Stephen Boyle

Petroleum coke protest campaign launched in Detroit | Windsor Star - 0 views

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petroleum petcoke tarsands Marathon MDEQ

shared by Stephen Boyle on 12 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • The petroleum coke a few months ago started to be produced in greater amounts at the nearby Marathon refinery in Detroit. The refinery completed a massive $2-billion facility upgrade last fall allowing it for the first time to process heavy Canadian crude oil brought in by pipeline from the Alberta oil sands.
  • Although not officially listed as a toxic or hazardous product, petcoke can contain heavy metals or sulphur found inside oil sands crude, according to experts.
  • MDEQ officials have continued to keep a watch on the petroleum coke, focusing of late on how the oil byproduct is being loaded on to freighters since the shipping season began about 10 days ago.
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  • “But subsequent visits by our air quality staff have identified issues with the petroleum coke as it’s being put on to the conveyor belts leading on to the ship. They did notice dust issues loading on to the conveyor. We have brought that concern to the company’s (Detroit Bulk Storage) attention and asked them to address it in their fugitive dust plan.”
  • The state environmental regulators have requested the companies involved provide an official site plan for fugitive dust and storm water runoff before the end of this month. They have not yet received a response, Hartz said.
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