Posted on 04/20/2011 3:33:41 PM PDT by TheSentry
US SAYS NO ISSUES WITH NEW OIL PIPELINE
20 Apr 2011-US say no isues with new oil pipeline
proposed $7 billion 1900 mile pipieline would carry oil from Canada to Texas...
(Excerpt) Read more at oilandgas.einnews.com ...
Maybe the refinery should be moved closer to the oil.
Will this be able to tap into the Wyoming, N Dakota finds?
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Seriously. This was their best and most efficient way? I’m no engineer, maybe the costs of transport would have been too high, but seems like a long route.
Why do I think that there still will be some reason for the administration to put it on hold pending environmental impact or some other foolishness?
You can bet that every mile will be contested in court by the enviroWackos. That is the only reason the US has no issues with the pipe line.
I would suppose that this would help Harper in the upcoming election. I’m really surprised this is coming out at this time and not after the election. The Boy Genius probably diddn’t consider that.
And all those pipelines that carry refined gasoline, diesel, and natural gas out to every region of the country? Move those too?
With no permits issued in over 30 years for a new refinery, it seems a pipleine to an existing refinery is the most timely solution.
Easier to build a pipeline than a refinery.
There hasn’t been a new refinery in the US in over 30 years. A 160,000 BBL a day refinery in the US has about 350 people. In India, with the same number of people, they can process ten times that amount of oil.
The likelihood of a refinery getting a permit to build here in the US is very small.
Let’s not even talk about the water required to build a new plant either. A facility processing 160,000 BBL/day needs about 3.5 million gallons per day.
A pipeline? To a state friendly to business and where most of our refineries are located anyway? More better.
Wow. Thank you. That makes sense. I didn’t realize refining used so much water, either.
Texas has no problem with it, as long as EPA doesn’t shut down our refineries.
I wonder how many of our own untapped oil fields that pipeline will travel over on the way to Texas?
They're working on that right now.
The land owners in E TX are a bit upset at the eminent domain requisition through their properties for this project. Maybe they could be promised discounted gas or something.
I like Canuks better than Saudis. Trust ‘em too.
They speak English, too.
Except when they say “aboot”.
We need a 74-mile pipeline from ANWR to connect with the current Alaskan pipeline. 74 miles and drilling in a barren, cold, desolate, ugly, nothing area that doesn’t have a tree within hundreds of miles. One Prudhoe Bay worker told me that a 74-mile pipeline and ANWR wells would give us all the oil we need and we could tell the Saudi’s and others to keep theirs. We need to continually hammer our politicians with this.
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