Washington, DC — This morning, Senator Bernie Sanders (I - VT) added his voice to the growing opposition to the Keystone XL, a 1,700 mile pipeline that would
carry tar sands oil from Canada to refineries on the Gulf of Mexico.
If constructed, the pipeline would
carry tar sands crude all the way from Alberta, Canada, to refineries on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico.
The proposed pipeline would
carry tar sands oil through two Indian reservations.
As to the controversial Keystone Pipeline, which would
carry tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada to the Gulf Coast, Obama said that the pipeline would not be approved if it worsens climate change: «our national interest will be served only if this project does not significantly exacerbate the problem of carbon pollution.»
The heavily debated northern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline, designed to
carry tar sands oil from the Canadian border into Nebraska, is awaiting a yes - or - no decision from President Barack Obama.
Keystone XL will
carry tar sands oil, which is potentially more corrosive and difficult to clean up than regular crude oil, according NPR.
This portion will
carry tar sands oil from Hardisty, Alberta, to Cushing, Oklahoma, where other pipelines will transport it to Gulf of Mexico refineries and ports.
One pipe would
carry tar sands - produced petroleum from Edmonton to Kitimat, where it would then be transported to tankers.
On October 11th, 2016, five climate activists shut down every pipeline
carrying tar sands crude from Canada to the United States.
If the Silvertip pipeline
carried tar sands oil, its corrosive properties could have been a factor in causing the Yellowstone spill.
In effort to bring attention to the threat posed by supertanker
carrying tar sands oil from Vancouver, ForestEthics has launched a new tool called TarSandsSOS that lets citizens track supertankers hauling tar sands oil along the Pacific coast in real time.
On October 11th, 2016, five climate activists shut down every pipeline
carrying tar sands crude from Canada to the United States.
Not exact matches
«The pipeline would
carry over 500,000 barrels of raw
tar sands crude each day.
In the coming months, TransCanada will likely receive a green light to build the final leg of its Keystone pipeline network, which would
carry Canadian
tar sands to Gulf of Mexico refineries.
A key decision to look out for is whether Obama says no to the Keystone XL pipeline, intended to
carry oil from Canada's
tar sands to the US.
The Canadian energy company TransCanada wants to build Keystone XL to
carry oil from the
tar sands of Alberta, Canada, to Nebraska.
There it would link to existing pipes, to
carry oil from Canada's
tar sands to refineries on the US's Gulf of Mexico coast.
But on the Keystone XL pipeline — which, if not blocked by President Obama, would
carry the crudest form of oil from Canadian
tar sand deposits to Gulf Coast fuel refineries — it seems there's little room for varied stances, at least according to some protesters.
The EPA now says there is no more danger of further oil spilling from the ruptured pipeline under the Yellowstone River, but several big questions remain — especially considering that ExxonMobil now says that
tar sands oil routinely was
carried by the
The EPA now says there is no more danger of further oil spilling from the ruptured pipeline under the Yellowstone River, but several big questions remain — especially considering that ExxonMobil now says that
tar sands oil routinely was
carried by the Silvertip pipeline.
The spill comes at an inopportune time for the industry, as it lobbies hard for approval of the controversial Keystone XL oil
sands pipeline that would
carry Canadian dilbit from the
tar sand region to Texas refineries on the Gulf Coast.
Noticeably unmentioned in the speech was the Keystone XL pipeline that would
carry oil from Canadian
tar sands to the refining centers of Texas.
The Keystone pipeline just spilled 210,000 gallons of toxic
tar sands oil in South Dakota — and President Trump and his oil industry allies are still pushing ahead with the bigger, riskier proposed Keystone XL
tar sands pipeline that would
carry 830,000 barrels of
tar sands oil per day through America's heartland.
Designed to
carry crude oil from Canadian
tar sands to the refining centers of Texas, the pipeline would bisect North America, from Alberta to the Gulf of Mexico.
Climate activists have rallied in opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline, the controversial project to
carry oil from
tar sands in western Canada south to refineries in the Gulf of Mexico.
Like the 2013 historic floods in Calgary that forced the head offices of the oil companies mining the Alberta
tar sands to go dark and send their employees home, while a train
carrying flammable petroleum products teetered on the edge of a disintegrating rail bridge.
Keystone XL is a proposed oil pipeline owned by TransCanada that would
carry toxic
tar sands crude oil from deposits in Alberta, Canada to refineries along the U.S. Gulf Coast.
After years of fighting, Energy East pipeline — the largest proposed
tar sands pipeline ever, which would have
carried 1.1 million barrels of
tar sands oil per day — is officially canceled.
Grand Chief Serge Simon of the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake said, «On behalf of the Treaty Alliance Against
Tar Sands Expansion, we thank these organizations for showing leadership in heeding the call of the Mazaska Talks campaign to divest from the banks responsible for DAPL and the four pipelines being proposed to carry even more tar sands oil out of Cana
Tar Sands Expansion, we thank these organizations for showing leadership in heeding the call of the Mazaska Talks campaign to divest from the banks responsible for DAPL and the four pipelines being proposed to
carry even more
tar sands oil out of Cana
tar sands oil out of Canada.
The spill presented a unique cleanup challenge, because 6B was
carrying bitumen, a thick crude oil mined from Canada's
tar sands region that is thinned with a cocktail of liquid chemicals to form diluted bitumen, or dilbit.
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.
Such a reduction is more than 10 times as great as the carbon content of
tar sands oil
carried by the proposed Keystone XL pipeline (830,000 barrels / day)[242].
Environmental group Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) notes that pipelines in the upper Midwest that routinely
carry oil from
tar sands have spilled 3.6 times more oil per pipeline mile than the U.S. average.
Like the Pegasus Pipeline that doused Mayflower in crude, the Eastern Mainline Pipeline was built in the 1950s, and would
carry a substance (
tar sands crude) thicker than the material for which it was originally designed.
«What it's
carrying is oil that is produced in Alberta, Canada's
tar sands, or sometimes called the oil
sands region.»
The oil poured out of rupture in an ExxonMobil pipeline that was
carrying Canadian
tar sands crude.
According to the Council of Canadians» primer on the subject, TransCanada wants to convert its Eastern Mainline pipeline, which currently transports natural gas and is operating at half capacity, into an
tar sands oil pipeline that could
carry eastward up to 850,000 barrels per day.
To put this in perspective, the Keystone XL pipeline would
carry up to 830,000 barrels of heavy
tar sands oil per day (303 million barrels / year), enough to supply the energy for over 38 million cars, or the equivalent of 1.8 QBtu annually.
Seven years ago, Exxon Mobil won approval from the government to reverse that flow and link up with pipelines owned by Enbridge and the Koch brothers to
carry Canadian
tar sands crude south.
The only independent study conducted on the
tar sands pipeline job creation prospects was
carried out by Cornell Univeristy — and they found only 500-1400 jobs would be generated by the project, and that most would be temporary.
The wind might finally be at the back of the landowners and environmentalists who for years have warned that the pipeline, which will
carry bitumen from Canada's carbon bomb known as the
tar sands, is a threat to fresh water supplies and the climate.
They didn't discover until more than a week later that the ruptured pipeline had been
carrying diluted bitumen, also known as dilbit, from Canada's
tar sands region.
The XL pipeline would
carry 900,000 barrels of
tar sands oil a day from Canada to Texas.
This first step of
tar sand extraction is estimated to result in gasoline that
carries a burden of «at least five times more carbon dioxide» then would conventional «sweet crude» oil production.
The pipeline
carries heavy crude from the
tar sands of Canada to refineries near the Texas Gulf coast.
It
carries material very similar to the Canadian
tar sands crude projected to be delivered by the proposed and hotly controversial Keystone XL pipeline through the Great Plains.
The pipeline
carried more than 90,000 barrels of
tar sands oil from Illinois to Texas every day.
The government and Enbridge Inc. are stepping up their game to push through what is largely seen as an alternative to Keystone XL: the Northern Gateway pipeline project, which would
carry oil from the Alberta
tar sands to the Canadian west coast for export to China.
Meanwhile, Kinder Morgan wants to expand its Trans Mountain pipeline system, nearly tripling its capacity so it can
carry up to 600,000 more barrels of
tar -
sands oil a day from Alberta to B.C..
The Northern Gateway pipeline would
carry 525,000 barrels per day of
tar -
sands oil from Alberta to the west coast of British Columbia.