...The department allowed TransCanada, the company seeking permission to build the 1,700-mile pipeline from the oil sands of northern Alberta to the Gulf Coast in Texas, to solicit and screen bids for the environmental study. At TransCanada’s recommendation, the department hired Cardno Entrix, an environmental contractor based in Houston, even though it had previously worked on projects with TransCanada and describes the pipeline company as a “major client” in its marketing materials....
TransCanada also stated, in compliance with Canadian environmental standards, they were restoring the areas where the open pit mining was occurring after the sand was removed. There was a 60 minutes program about it. They lied. NASA has a complete set of pictures of the site in Alberta and there is absolutely no restoration. If that is what TransCanada called restoration, then they speak a different language then I do.
TransCanada is also having troubles already, but, hey they ain't nothing to worry about. The Republicans are remiss, they don't have 'environment' in their vocabulary when it comes to safeguarding the nation's farmland, any conservation concerns or health.
Alberta Oil Sands 2011, where is there restoration that returns the region back to its origianal state? There is none!TransCanada Shuts Pipeline After Troubles With Power (click here)
By DAN FROSCH
Published: November 10, 2011
The company proposing a controversial oil pipeline that would stretch from Canada to the Gulf Coast had a related pipeline shut down twice this week after it experienced power problems. The company, TransCanada, said that its Keystone pipeline, which runs from Alberta to Cushing, Okla., went down for three hours on Tuesday after a Canadian utility that powers the pipeline dealt with shortages....
I can see it now, this thick sludge is moving through a huge pipeline and the entire system loses power. The sludge turns to glue and is backed up into Canada. Then what has to be done? Dismantling of the pipeline, millions of dollars of expense, destruction of land surrounding the pipeline as the entire length has to be opened and the thick and probably hardened sludge has to be removed with heavy equipment. Is that oil we need? No, for a lot more reasons than that. But, do Repubicans care? No. They simply see it as a crony issue and they demand it is moved along so they get more money for their political ambitions.
...Because it takes energy to mine and separate oil from the sands, (click here) oil sands extraction releases more greenhouse gases than other forms of oil production. The mines shown in the image emitted more than 20 million tons of greenhouse gases in 2008— a product of both oil production and electricity production for the mining operation. The effort produced the equivalent of 86 to 103 kilograms of carbon dioxide for every barrel of crude oil produced. By comparison, 27 to 58 kilograms of carbon dioxide are emitted in the conventional production of a barrel of crude oil....
Republicans are corrupt to the core and if this doesn't illustrate that than I don't know what will. They don't care about people, they care about money!
...Because it takes energy to mine and separate oil from the sands, (click here) oil sands extraction releases more greenhouse gases than other forms of oil production. The mines shown in the image emitted more than 20 million tons of greenhouse gases in 2008— a product of both oil production and electricity production for the mining operation. The effort produced the equivalent of 86 to 103 kilograms of carbon dioxide for every barrel of crude oil produced. By comparison, 27 to 58 kilograms of carbon dioxide are emitted in the conventional production of a barrel of crude oil....
Republicans are corrupt to the core and if this doesn't illustrate that than I don't know what will. They don't care about people, they care about money!
