Sentences with phrase «pipeline leaks»

They also measured lower emissions from individual pipeline leaks as compared to earlier studies.

«The Ph.D. - to - assistant - professor pipeline leaks more women than men in life science and economics,» he said.

Rosendale resident Iris Bloom said there have been numerous reports of pipeline leaks across the country and that Bakken crude is among the most dangerous of all crudes.

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.

In the 1990s study, researchers measured pipeline leaks by digging down to a pipeline, isolating a leaking section, measuring the emissions, and then subtracting the methane emissions that would have been lost in the soil via soil oxidation.

Lamb's group directly measured known pipeline leaks on the surface, getting a better indication of exactly how much is being leaked to the atmosphere.

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.

As Enbridge invests in yet another tar sands pipeline project, clean - up costs for its Michigan pipeline leak that spilled one million gallons of tar sands crude continue to skyrocket.

A recent pipeline leak adds political fodder to a heated congressional race between incumbent Republican Fred Upton (pictured here) and Democrat Paul Clements.

Methane emissions that occur during drilling and from pipeline leaks also add to the so - called green house gas effect.

Seattle and Los Angeles have taken steps to end their relationship with the bank

Last October, TransCanada's Keystone pipeline leaked over 210,000...

(Pipelines leak methane at much higher rates than previously understood, and methane is much more dangerous to the environment than carbon dioxide.)

The researchers found that upgrades in metering and regulating stations, changes in pipeline materials, better instruments for detecting pipeline leaks as well as regulatory changes have led to methane emissions that are from 36 % to 70 % lower than current Environmental Protection Agency estimates when the data gathered for this study is combined with current pipeline miles and the numbers of facilities.

One of the state's largest spills to date occurred in 2014, when an underground pipeline leak caused approximately 1 million gallons of brine to flow down a ravine and into Bear Den Bay, about a quarter mile upstream from a drinking water intake on Lake Sakakawea.

About a third of the factors used to estimate pipeline leaks and other natural gas emissions in the most recent inventory, for 2015, are based on a 1996 study by the EPA and an industry group then known as the Gas Research Institute.

With luck, the work at the Experimental Lakes Area will mean that cleanup crews are better prepared for the next major pipeline leak.

★ Major Accomplishment ★ • Detected and fixed five chronic sewer pipe leaks for a huge building of a five star hotel and saved the client from re routing the pipelines

We absorb all the risk of pipeline leaks and tanker traffic for precious little return, equating to a few long term facility jobs...

«This is what we have said all along: Oil pipelines leak and spill,» Standing Rock Sioux Chairman Dave Archambault II said in a statement, according to Yahoo! News.

If opponents of incumbent Congressman Fred Upton (R - Mich) have their way, a natural gas pipeline leak that displaced 500 people earlier this week could take center stage in one of the nation's most heated Congressional races.

that Thursday's Keystone XL pipeline leak won't affect their decision come Monday.

When the new emissions data were combined with current pipeline mileage information, significant regional variations were observed, with the Eastern region of the United States accounting for more than a third of the total U.S. emissions from pipeline leaks, and the larger western region, where systems tend to be newer, contributing 17 percent of total emissions.

The decision comes just days after TransCanada's Keystone pipeline leaked 210,000 gallons of oil in South Dakota.

I urge Chilliwack City Council to take this unique opportunity — a window — to prevent the unthinkable possibility of having a pipeline leak ruin our community.

In Nigeria, Royal Dutch Shell has declared force majeure on about 250,000 b / d of its Forcados crude oil grade following a pipeline leak, with little clarity about when it will reopen.

Town of Ulster leaders, though, as well as those in Rosendale and New Paltz have said they don't have firefighting resources sufficient to deal with a pipeline leak or explosion.

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).

Rosenberg said she's concerned about the pipeline leaking «volatile» crude.

«Under current safety measures — pipelines aren't regularly inspected — a pipeline leak would be devastating.

The problem, rather, is that the pipeline leaks, and it leaks women preferentially.

The bad news is that pipeline leaks and incidents still kill a dozen or more people a year and cost consumers $ 2 billion yearly from leaky pipes.

Currently, pipeline leaks are the main culprit, but fracking is a quickly growing contributor.

«Teacher recruitment is currently a pipeline leaking at both ends.

However, a more likely reason is that forex traders were worried about the prospects for TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline, especially after word got around that the pipeline leaked around 5,000 barrels in South Dakota, which forced TransCanada to shut down the pipeline.

Because dogs have such a highly - developed sense of smell, they have been successfully trained to locate such things as drugs, bombs, pipeline leaks, and victims of natural or manmade disasters.

Cooper Union / Institute for Sustainable Design received a Marfa Dialogues / NY grant in 2013 that supported Hardinger «s and Rebecca Smith's co-initiation of an exhibition and panel discussion about Manhattan's gas pipeline leaks, based on a report Hardinger and Smith initiated, conducted by Damascus Citizens for Sustainability.

Carbon dioxide emissions from burning gas are a fraction of those from coal combustion, but gas wells and pipelines leak, so it's not clear whether switching to gas really reduces greenhouse emissions.

Despite the hard lessons it learned about sinking bitumen in Michigan's Kalamazoo River, Enbridge continues to assure the National Energy Board that the oily products it intends to carry west through the Northern Gateway — including bitumen — will stay on the surface if there is a pipeline leak or tanker spill, where they can be cleaned up using skimmers and other tools.

«Incidentally, Inside Climate News justly won a Pulitzer Prize for a 10 - part series on a pipeline leak in Michigan.

We know TransCanada's pipelines leak and spill constantly.

The potential difficulty of timely detection is only one of the dangers posed by a pipeline leak or a fracking mishap.

This increases the risk of pipeline leaks, something Congress recently ordered the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) to study.

Claire Thompson at Grist makes a good point that pipeline leaks are a concern regardless of the oil type:

[Translate] by Emily AtkinCLIMATE PROGRESS In this Oct. 11, 2013 file photo, cleanup continues at the site of an oil pipeline leak...

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.