Sentences with phrase «oil pipelines leak»
CALGARY — A Saskatchewan mayor whose city's water supply was interrupted for several weeks following a Husky Energy Inc. oil pipeline leak in July 2016 says he hopes environmental charges announced Monday act as a deterrent for other pipeline firms.
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New natural gas pipelines do not face the same kind of opposition as oil pipelines because the product is a gas and, in case of a leak, it escapes into the atmosphere rather than fouling waterways and soil.
Estimates vary widely on just how much methane is leaked from the vast network of oil and gas wells, pipelines and processing plants, but the problem has cast doubt on how much better natural gas is than coal for the environment.
Protesters have said the pipeline could leak oil into the Missouri and Cannon Ball rivers, on which the tribe relies for water.
Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton struggled with how to secure the endorsement of labor unions while announcing her opposition to the Keystone XL oil pipeline, a project they supported but environmentalists opposed, according to leaked emails published by Wikileaks on Friday.
Pressure has been restricted on the 590,000 barrel per day Keystone pipeline since late last year, after the line leaked some 9,700 barrels of oil in South Dakota.
Earlier, Shell and ExxonMobil temporarily halted production, following leaks and vandalism of oil pipelines in the Niger Delta region.
Not allowing the pipeline, Schoonmaker said, is the best way to allay concerns about leaks that could send oil into the groundwater.
Many local towns and cities have expressed opposition to the project, citing the local dangers of pipeline leaks and wider implications of fracking (the oil bound for the Pilgrim Pipeline originates from the Bakken shale in North Dakota, the same deposits that have increased the volume of oil carried by trains and barges through the Hudson Valley to New Jersey refineries).
... That leak in the Keystone Pipeline spilled 5,000 barrels of crude oil — about 210,000 gallons, according to TransCanada, the pipeline's owner.
Methane, the main component of natural gas, is released from leaking pipelines, coal mines, oil wells, cattle, rice paddies and landfills.
If leaks from pipelines are not detected early enough, the resulting leaked oil could contaminate the local environment and water sources.
But University of Utah engineers have developed a new type of fiber material for a handheld scanner that can detect small traces of alkane fuel vapor, a valuable advancement that could be an early - warning signal for leaks in an oil pipeline, an airliner, or for locating a terrorist's explosive.
Researchers have developed an infrared imaging system that could one day offer low - cost, real - time detection of methane gas leaks in pipelines and at oil and gas facilities.
On July 1 an ExxonMobil pipeline burst beneath the Yellowstone River in Montana, spilling more than 40,000 gallons of oil into the waterway before responders could seal the leak.
The study, conducted by researchers at Purdue and Cornell universities and other institutions, is one of numerous studies conducted over the past several years that have discovered methane leaking from oil and natural gas wells, pipelines and hydraulic fracturing operations.
Anyhow, the Loonie appeared to take directional cues from oil again after Canada's CPI report was released, likely because Nebraskan government officials announced that Thursday's Keystone XL pipeline leak won't affect their decision come Monday.
In fact, TransCanada announced late on Tuesday that oil delivered to the U.S. via the Keystone pipeline is estimated to suffer an 85 % reduction until the end of November because of last week's leaks.
Though initial reports placed the amount of oil spilled from the Enbridge pipeline as high as one million gallons, all subsequent reports have estimated the amount of oil leaked in the 800,000 - 840,000 gallon range.
The Yellowstone River oil spill continues to spread (both physically and metaphorically) with more and more landowners reporting their property has been contaminated with oil from the ruptured ExxonMobil Silvertip pipeline and questions raised about how much oil would have spilled if a similar leaked occurred on the controversial proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.
The ExxonMobil Pegasus pipeline, which carries Canadian crude oil from Illinois to Texas, ruptured Friday, leaking at least 80,000 gallons of oil into Central Arkansas.
The pipeline, carrying the rather dangerous and difficult to clean up «Dilbit» oil, risks having leaks (despite industry promises that, well, such leaks would never, -LSB-...]
Since ExxonMobil's Pegasus pipeline ruptured and leaked Canadian oil across an Arkansas suburb a week ago, the company has maintained that only «a few thousand barrels» spilled at the site.
It is also home to several pipelines carrying fossil fuels from Canada to Texas, and is the site of the largest inland oil pipeline spill in U.S. history, the 1 - million barrel tar sands crude leak along the Kalamazoo River in 2010.
Rather than taking action to hold the company accountable, they were allowed to move forward with an even bigger and more flawed pipeline plan (Keystone XL) that would put both Canada and the U.S. at risk of a massive oil leak or spill.
It occurred just 80 miles west of the largest inland oil pipeline spill in U.S. history, the 1 - million barrel tar sands crude leak along the Kalamazoo River in 2010.
When ExxonMobil's Pegasus pipeline ruptured on March 29, the company announced that no oil had leaked into Lake Conway, a major recreational reservoir just nine - tenths of a mile from the spill site in central Arkansas.
This pipeline transports bitumen - loaded tar sands oil, which is more corrosive than oil extracted through other methods — which means much higher risk of leaks.
Tar sands pipelines are also far more likely to leak than conventional oil pipelines, which spells bad news for Sebago Lake, Casco Bay, and 11 pristine New England rivers.
In recent weeks, months and years diesel has leaked from a pipeline into wetlands near Salt Lake City; oil has spilled into the Yellowstone River in Montana; and about 20,000 barrels of oil have spewed into the Kalamazoo River in Michigan.
But it specifically limited the scope of the report to an examination of whether pipelines carrying dilbit are more likely to leak than pipelines carrying conventional crude oil.
In one area, it said, the equivalent of four to five barrels of oil had already leaked out of the pipeline and spilled on the tundra.
In March, pipeline corrosion caused a leak of more than 200,000 gallons of oil, the worst spill since production began on Alaska's North Slope [see previous post].
The Governor had evidently forgotten about the hundreds of oil, gas, and saltwater pipelines that have burst, leaked, or exploded in and around North Dakota over the past several years.
These incidents include over three - hundred unreported spills from 2012 to 2013, several significant leaks of oil and polluted saltwater into streams and farmland in the six months prior to the latest train derailment (see here and here), a decade - old saltwater spill which is still being cleaned up coupled with a pipeline rupture discovered in September 2013 which will take another four years to clean, and a natural - gas pipeline explosion across the border in Canada, which impacted gas availability in several U.S. states during the winter of 2014 (see here and here).
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The environmental community was actively opposed to this pipeline, citing the tendency of pipelines to leak and pollute large areas of land and water, and the carbon emissions associated with the oil to be transported by the pipeline.
That pipeline had a leak that spilled over 100,000 gallons of crude oil in California last week (21,000 gallons of which went into the ocean at Refugio State Beach).
On Friday, the ExxonMobil Pegasus pipeline, which brings Canadian crude oil from Illinois to Texas, ruptured, leaking at least 80,000 gallons of oil into the Central Arkansas town of Mayflower.
Four Nigerian farmers will have the chance to sue Shell, the multinational oil and gas company, in the Netherlands for pollution they blame on leaking pipelines, a Dutch appeals court has ruled.
Claire Thompson at Grist makes a good point that pipeline leaks are a concern regardless of the oil type:
Reuters reports that an ExxonMobil offshore oil facility in Akwa Ibom state is leaking, spreading oily sludge 20 miles out from a pipeline that had been closed down last week.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — TransCanada today announced that an estimated 210,000 gallons of oil leaked from the Keystone pipeline near northeastern South Dakota.
So when Dix nixed expansion of the Kinder Morgan pipeline that ships oil from Edmonton to Burnaby, B.C., ostensibly because of environmental concerns (and to win back environmental New Democrats who were leaking — if not gushing — into the Green camp), his campaign may have run aground, and his comments may have angered members of the B.C. and Yukon Territories Building and Construction Trades Council, who were counting on the union jobs that the project would create.
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Concern over potential environmental impacts could also affect the value of a home, such as the fear of water contamination (especially if a home uses private water wells), oil spills, and pipeline leaks.