Not exact matches
Since it received permission to increase the amont of
oil it transports, Global has also sought to add a
crude oil heater that would allow it to
bring in thick tar
sands.
This was first
brought to light by
Oil Change International (and soon echoed by Ryan Koronowski on Climate Progress and then by Carol Linnitt on DeSmog Canada), all of whom explained the bizarre technicality that exempts dilbit (or diluted bitumen, the transportable form of tar
sands crude) from the taxes that fund the
Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund.
Line 3 is a proposed pipeline that would
bring crude oil from the Alberta tar
sands in Canada to Superior, Wisconsin in the United States.
The proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which promises to deliver 700,000 barrels of Canadian
crude to U.S. markets a day, isn't based in Saskatchewan (though economic spin - offs from the
oil sands bring jobs and help fund social services across the entire country).
The Democratic governor of Missouri, Jay Nixon, announced this week that he favors construction of the Keystone XL pipeline to
bring crude from the Canadian
oil sands and our own Bakken shale region to refineries along the Gulf Coast.
Experts have predicted a «high risk» of rupture on this aging
oil pipeline that has recently been approved to
bring Alberta tar
sands crude to Eastern Canada.