Sentences with phrase «conventional oil spills»

Competent individuals and sophisticated equipment are on standby to respond to a conventional oil spill.

Not exact matches

As the lighter portions of the spill begin to evaporate, the progressively heavier bitumen would likely begin to sink — rendering useless the conventional clean - up equipment designed to recover floating oil.

During last year's massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, conventional oil - collection techniques were found to be woefully inadequate.

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Critics of the TransCanada pipeline have warned of potential spills in America's heartland as well as the climate impacts of allowing more tar sands oil, which has a higher carbon footprint than conventional sources, into the US and other markets.

Although PHMSA records detailed information on all reported pipeline spills, the database does not distinguish between spills of diluted bitumen and conventional oil.

What this spill revealed was that no one knew the impact of pushing bitumen, unrefined tar sands oil, through pipes regulated for conventional oil.

We have two main concerns: the risk of oil spills along the pipeline, which would traverse highly sensitive terrain, and the fact that the extraction of petroleum from the tar sands creates far more greenhouse emissions than conventional production does.

But those databases don't specify the exact cause of each spill, and they don't track whether the pipeline carried dilbit or conventional crude oil at the time of the spill.

Pipeline opponents also worry about spills, especially because the thick Canadian oil, known as «diluted bitumen,» or «dilbit,» is different from conventional crude.

Studies also indicate that pipelines operating at temperatures above 100 degrees Fahrenheit spill up to 23 times more often due to external corrosion than conventional oil pipelines.

According to Congress and the IRS, diluted bitumen or dilbit, which is the type of oil that has spilled in Arkansas, is not classified as oil and companies shipping it are not required to pay an 8 - cents - per - barrel excise tax into the federal Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund, as companies shipping conventional oil oil that has spilled in Arkansas, is not classified as oil and companies shipping it are not required to pay an 8 - cents - per - barrel excise tax into the federal Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund, as companies shipping conventional oil oil and companies shipping it are not required to pay an 8 - cents - per - barrel excise tax into the federal Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund, as companies shipping conventional oil Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund, as companies shipping conventional oil oil do.

If the oil industry wants to pipe these dangerous tar sands oils over our water sheds and aquifers, putting our drinking supply and neighborhoods at risk, they should not only be required to pay into the cleanup fund, they should be paying far more than the 8 cents per barrel they pay for conventional oil since these tar sands oils are not just worse for the environment, but potentially pose a greater risk of spills and are even harder to clean up.

Exxon may indeed end up paying for all of the oil spill cleanup in Mayflower, but they are not paying the 8 - cents - per - barrel fee for the tar sands oil, as they would if they were transporting conventional oil.

Other conventional crude producers pay 8 cents a barrel to ensure the fund has resources to help clean up some of the 54,000 barrels of pipeline oil that spilled 364 times last year.

So again, they consider tar sands oil just like conventional oil when it comes to their pipelines, but not when it comes to cleaning the spills those pipelines create.

Whether it is tar sands oil, dilbit or conventional crude, oil spills are a mess to clean up and the oil industry should pay a cleanup fee for a barrel of one type of oil as it does for another.

Following the 2010 Enbridge pipeline dilbit spill in Michigan, InsideClimate News produced a good primer on the differences between dilbit and conventional oil:

A new study by the National Academy of Sciences found that «pipelines carrying heavy Canadian oil sands fuel are at no greater risk of a spill than those running conventional crude.»

Lisa Song at InsideClimate News explains why tar sands spills are harder to clean than conventional crude oil:

The issue is important because dilbit behaves differently from conventional crude oil when it spills into water.