Sentences with phrase «tar sands crude»

The United States Environmental Protection Agency's indisputably naïve response reveals how little anyone knew about tar sands crude.

Diluted bitumen, or dilbit, as it's called in the tar sands industry, is approximately three parts tar sands crude, one part natural gas liquids.

Fresh tar sands crude looks more like dirt than conventional crude — it's far too thick to travel through a pipeline.

Skimmers, like these used to clean up the Deepwater Horizon spill, were useless in Kalamazoo, where the tar sands crude sank to the bottom.

It took more than 17 hours before the Canadian company finally cut off the flow, but by then, more than a million gallons of tar sands crude had oozed into Talmadge Creek.

In addition, tar sands crude contains very high levels of heavy metals, which don't break down easily.

If another Enbridge spill were to happen tomorrow, the company might respond more quickly, but huge volumes of heavy tar sands crude would still pour out of the pipeline.

Experts have predicted a «high risk» of rupture on this aging oil pipeline that has recently been approved to bring Alberta tar sands crude to Eastern Canada.

Calgary, Alberta - based Enbridge is the same company that spilled more than 1 million gallons of thick, sticky tar sands crude into the Kalamazoo River in Michigan in 2010.

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.

Enbridge applied for a State Department permit two years ago for its latest project: a bid to increase the capacity of its «Alberta Clipper» pipeline from 450,000 to 800,000 barrels of tar sands crude per day.

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 converted natural gas pipeline ships 435,000 barrels of Alberta tar sands crude each day to Conoco - Phillips» refinery in Wood River, Illinois.

InsideClimate News also contacted three pipeline companies (TransCanada, Enbridge and Kinder Morgan), three refineries that process tar sands crude (Valero, Suncor Energy U.S.A. and BP Whiting), and the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) to ask about possible taxes on tar sands imports.

«The IRS has classified tar sands as different from conventional oil, and thus the tax levied to fill the liability trust fund is not levied on tar sands crude.

Tar sands crude oil pipeline comanies may be putting the American public's safety at risk by using conventional pipeline technology to transport a highly corrosive, acidic and potentially unstable blend of thick raw bitumen and volatile natural gas liquid condensate called DilBit.

On October 11th, 2016, five climate activists shut down every pipeline carrying tar sands crude from Canada to the United States.

On March 29, Exxon's underground Pegasus Pipeline ruptured, spilling as much as 294,000 gallons of dirty tar sands crude...

«It is a different time and people are more aware of these pipelines being built because of Keystone XL and a little bit more aware of tar sands crude,» said Kate Jacobson, lead coordinator for MN350.

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.

One of the previous Healing Walks toured Martinez, California (pictured above and below), home to two refineries that process oil and tar sands crude — and also home to a strong resistance among residents who are fighting for the health of their community.

The communities along this corridor have long faced health impacts and pollution from these refineries, and the pollution is only getting worse as the refineries accept and process tar sands crude, which exposes residents to even greater levels of toxic chemicals, particulate matter, sulfur dioxide, lead, carbon dioxide, and other harmful pollutants.

Dilbit — the heavy, solvent - laced tar sands crude that oozed into the Kalamazoo River in 2010 and across Mayflower, Ark., in 2013 doesn't count, technically, as «oil.»

In 2013, Global applied for a permit to allow it to handle heavy tar sands crude oil at the same facility.

«Tar sands crude is the dirtiest oil on the planet.

It looks like Exxon's response to the catastrophic rupture of its Pegasus Pipeline, which leaked as much as 294,000 gallons of dirty tar sands crude into the streets, gardens, canals, storm sewers, creeks and wetlands of Mayflower, Arkansas, is turning into another Keystone Cops rerun.

The oil poured out of rupture in an ExxonMobil pipeline that was carrying Canadian tar sands crude.

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.

On Date, Exxon's underground Pegasus Pipeline ruptured, spilling as much as 294,000 gallons of dirty tar sands crude in and around Mayflower.

TransCanada's proposed Energy East Pipeline would transport tar sands crude from Alberta, through Ontario and Quebec, and as far as New Brunswick's Irving Oil Ltd. refinery and port of Saint John.

All of these characteristics make transporting tar sands crude by pipeline much more dangerous than conventional crude, and is something decision makers must carefully consider when they review permits for the growing network of new and repurposed tar sands pipelines that will run through or near hundreds of communities and thousands of streams, rivers, wetlands, lakes and aquifers in British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas.

The details will eventually come out, but it looks like another case of Keystone Cops running around like chickens with their heads cut off while they try to keep us safe from the inevitable ruination that results when you try to put corrosive tar sands crude in a pipeline.

Oil Change International has launched a new online tool today that tracks the flow of Canadian tar sands crude oil to North America's refineries.

This tar sands crude is not just regular oil.

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.

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.

Bitumen is the tar sands crude oil that looks like asphalt.

It began operating in 2010 and transports tar sands crude from Alberta to Cushing and Patoka, Ill..

In Arkansas, Exxon learned about the spill from a homeowner but kept pumping tar sands crude into the neighborhood for 45 minutes, and is bullying reporters who want to tell the public what's going on.

Home to some of the largest oil refineries in the world, Port Arthur is set to receive nearly 800,000 barrels of tar sands crude oil daily from the Keystone Pipeline, once it is operable.

Tar sands crude is one of the world's dirtiest, most expensive - to - produce, and difficult - to - extract oils — and many analysts argue that those reserves will be among those left in the ground.

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

For compulsive watchers of Enbridge Inc., the spill - crazy pipeline company that wants to pipe tar sands crude to the Canadian West Coast - or just for students of the barefaced lie - this video can't be beaten.

Refining a barrel of tar sands crude contributes 3 - 5 times as much global warming emissions as does refining traditional crude.

Republicans have said approving the pipeline, built to pump tar sands crude to Texas Gulf Coast refineries, would be an early order of business.

As I bike along the beautiful Ottawa River, which could be flooded with tar sands crude if the Energy East pipeline is ever built, I remember my grade 11 civics teacher scolding the class.

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.

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.

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

According to a thirty - year - old law in the US, diluted bitumen coming from the Alberta tar sands is not classified as oil, meaning pipeline operators planning to transport tar sands crude across the United States are exempt from paying into the federal Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund.