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Pipelines safe, Keystone XL meeting told
2013-04-19 08:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
United Press International: Pipelines are the safest way to transport oil in the United States, a former U.S pipeline regulator said at a Nebraska meeting on the Keystone XL pipeline. The U.S. State Department requested public opinion on a draft assessment of the planned cross-border pipeline. Critics of the project say Canadian crude oil, the type designated for Keystone XL, may be more corrosive and therefore more likely to cause a pipeline spill. A so-called tar sands oil spill in Michigan in 2010 was the costliest...
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Exxon's 22-Foot Rupture Illustrates Tremendous Operating Pressure of Oil Pipelines
2013-04-12 14:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: The rupture in the ExxonMobil pipeline that sent a river of oil through a suburban neighborhood in Mayflower, Ark. is now known to be 22 feet long and 2 inches wide [3]. That's almost four times larger than the six-foot pipeline tear that sent more than one million gallons of Canadian dilbit into Michigan's Kalamazoo River in 2010, the worst accident of its kind in U.S. history. The size and speed of the release through a long opening, thin as a mail slot, shines a spotlight on just how quickly...
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Using aging, retrofitted pipelines to ship oil what could go wrong?
2013-04-10 21:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Until the Pegasus pipeline ruptured on March 29, leaking an estimated 147,000 to 210,000 gallons of heavy crude oil into the town of Mayflower, Ark., few Arkansans knew it was even there. In fact, thousands of miles of pipelines snake through the heart of the United States. Proponents insist that pipelines are the safest way to transport oil - safer than trucks or trains or tankers. Yet, in recent years, the Yellowstone River spill in Montana, the Kalamazoo River spill in Marshall, Mich., and...
Scientists design adaptive material with tunable transparency and wettability; applications in pipelines, textiles, optical systems
2013-04-08 21:30:20| Green Car Congress
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Exxon cleans up Arkansas oil spill amid debate over Canada-to-US pipelines
2013-03-31 15:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Exxon Mobil was working to clean up thousands of barrels of oil in Mayflower, Arkansas, after a pipeline carrying heavy Canadian crude ruptured, a major spill likely to stoke debate over transporting Canada's oil to the United States. Exxon shut the Pegasus pipeline, which can carry more than 90,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil from Pakota, Illinois, to Nederland, Texas, after the leak was discovered on Friday afternoon, the company said in a statement. Exxon, hit with a $1.7m fine by...
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