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.
Not exact matches
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).
HEMP is a good answer — no wars were fought for hemp and cooking
oil, no harmful
pipelines were built and
leaked for that
oil, no ocean life was ruined due to offshore drilling, no one's health was effected for that vegetable
oil, the air is cleaner with that
oil due to no green house gases released — this
oil can be recycled from our food — hemp can replace fibers, pulp, plastics and it still makes food and grows in under 3 months (and it does not need much water, no fertilizer and cleans the air!!
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.