Sentences with phrase «pipeline spills»

Potential pipeline spills threaten water and fish, and fuel climate change.

On World Water Day, we are here to protect the water from pipeline spills, the consequences of which we have experienced first - hand in Alberta and which threaten precious water all along the pipeline route.»

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Environmental advocates have long called for an outright rejection of the proposed pipeline expansion, citing past pipeline spills and the high levels of pollution that result from tar sands extraction.

However disturbing and sad it sounds, we've gotten used to pipeline spills here.

Subsequent pipeline spills — including a 12,000 - barrel leak from an Exxon Mobil Corp. pipeline in Arkansas in late March — have provided fodder to critics who say new pipelines, including TransCanada Corp.'s Keystone XL project, are risky propositions.

What is more, the State Department ignores the potentially negative impacts of pipeline spills, spills into freshwater supplies or increases in climate and other pollution on employment and the economy.

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

Core also documented oil - pipeline spills that had not been cleaned up in Ontario, Manitoba and the Northwest Territories, and provided evidence that the National Energy Board has left the industry off the hook for multibillion - dollar abandonment liabilities on 70,000 kilometers of federally - regulated pipelines.

In effort to raise awareness about the human and environmental cost to oil pipeline spills and rally opposition to the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, a group called The Center for Biological Diversity put together this time lapse video documenting every significant oil pipeline spill in the US since 1986.

(Not to mention the endless number of pipeline spills, railroad fires, spills in the Gulf and oceans.)

Last Friday, a rupture in an ExxonMobil pipeline spilled thousands of gallons of dark goo through backyards and streets in the little town of Mayflower, Ark..

The Committee noted that a federal investigation into the famous 2010 pipeline spill in Marshall, Michigan, which released some 20,000 barrels of dilbit into the nearby Kalamazoo River, «did not report that specific properties of the products transported through the pipeline at the time of the event or in the past had caused or contributed to the pipeline damage.»

Canadian oil producers have struggled to find sufficient rail cars to move their barrels since TransCanada Corp.'s Keystone pipeline spilled in South Dakota last year and have turned to securing railway cars to move their barrels, a situation which has exacerbated problems for farmers moving their grain off the prairies.

He added that a pipeline spill could contaminate sensitive aquifers that provide water for many town residents.

A pipeline spill could also undo efforts to restore the bald eagle population in the area, he said.

Last week the Keystone pipeline spilled 5,000 barrels of oil.

CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters)- Enbridge Energy Partners LP has begun a new round of dredging on the Kalamazoo River, Michigan, to clean up oil from a huge pipeline spill in 2010, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Tuesday.

Just months after the BP spill last year, an Enbridge pipeline spilled nearly a million gallons of oil into a creek flowing into the Kalamazoo River near Battle Creek, Michigan.

I did a marsh clean up in Port Aransas as well with a pipeline spill.

A similar pipeline spilled 840,000 gallons in Kalamazoo last year.

And with the way tar sands oil sinks in water, a tanker or pipeline spill in the area would be devastating for the region.

ExxonMobil is getting defensive about its response plans for the tar sands pipeline spill in Arkansas.

In 2010, a single pipeline spill poured 1,000,000 gallons of toxic bitumen crude oil into the Kalamazoo River in Michigan.

More than two years after an Enbridge Energy Partners LP pipeline spilled 819,000 gallons of diluted bitumen into the Kalamazoo River in Michigan, U.S. EPA has ordered the company to do additional dredging to remove oil.

Arkansas» Attorney General Dustin McDaniel has contracted out the «independent analysis of the cleanup» of the ExxonMobil Pegasus tar sands pipeline spill to Witt O'Brien's, a firm with a history of oil spill cover - ups, a DeSmogBlog investigation reveals.

Five years ago, a pipeline spilled a million gallons of tar sands crude into a Michigan river — and we're still cleaning it up.

The Bismarck route also would have crossed an area considered by federal pipeline regulators as a «high consequence area,» which is an area determined to have the most significant adverse consequences in the event of a pipeline spill.

A worker looks out at cleaned area at ExxonMobil's pipeline spill site in Mayflower, Ark..

(Reuters)- Exxon Mobil on Sunday continued cleanup of a pipeline spill that spewed thousands of barrels of heavy Canadian crude in Arkansas as opponents of oil sands development latched on to the incident to attack plans to build the Keystone XL line.

A Plains All American pipeline spilled 10,000 gallons of oil in Los Angeles.

The National Transportation Safety Board released its findings from a two year investigation of the 2010 Enbridge tar sands crude pipeline spill (which DeSmogBlog has covered in depth) that dumped over a million gallons of toxic diluted bitumen (or DilBit) into the Kalamazoo River and its watershed.

News Articles Gayathri Vaidyanathan E&E reporter March 15, 2013 More than two years after an Enbridge Energy Partners LP pipeline spilled 819,000 gallons of diluted bitumen into the Kalamazoo River in Michigan, U.S. EPA has ordered the company to do additional dredging to remove oil.

The Exxon pipeline spill in Mayflower, Ark. illustrates concerns outlined in 54 - page petition that EPA and PHMSA must now respond to.

Nearly a week after a burst pipeline spilled tar sands crude through their streets, residents of this tiny community are without answers and overwhelmed.

This safety request comes after an Enbridge pipeline spilled «more than 50,000 gallons of oil into a Wisconsin pasture» last Friday.

Two and a half years after the costliest oil pipeline spill in U.S. history, the company responsible for the disaster is balking at digging up oil that still remains in Michigan's Kalamazoo River.

Earlier this week, the EPA fined ExxonMobil Pipeline Company $ 1.7 million for a 2012 pipeline spill that sent 117,000 gallons of oil into an unnamed tributary connected to Bayou Cholpe near Baton Rouge, La..

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.

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.

The pipeline spilled more than one million gallons of toxic tar sands oil into the Kalamazoo River, see in the photo below (click photo to enlarge).

The committee members also analyzed pipeline spill data maintained by PHMSA and the Canadian federal government.

Committee member George Tenley, Jr., a former president of the industry group Pipeline Research Council International, said during the call that the committee was told to review existing pipeline regulations only if it found that dilbit was more likely to cause a pipeline spill.

The pipeline spill that flooded Mayflower, Ark., with up to 290,000 gallons of tar - sands oil in March was an accident that had been waiting to happen — for more than 60 years.

The Feb. 2 spill appears to be the fourth biggest pipeline spill, according to DNR records, though officials at the agency said computerized records could be incomplete.

But this is not a normal pipeline spill.

TransCanada has said its Keystone I pipeline spilled 500 barrels (21,000 gallons) of oil in North Dakota on Saturday morning.

According to MacPherson, the recent pipeline spill in which 20,600 barrels were spilled in a wheat field was kept quiet for 11 days until the AP asked about it.

In Kalamazoo, there was a very large tar sands pipeline spill, in Michigan.

The protest against Kinder Morgan's pipeline spilled over into civil disobedience this week.