Posted on 01/17/2012 9:02:54 PM PST by dila813
A U.S. safety regulator will look at whether pipelines carrying petroleum from Canada's oil sands are at greater risk for spills than those carrying other types of crude, and whether any changes are needed to its rules.
The new study, to be completed by July 2013, could address some of the issues in play in the debate between environmental groups and the oil industry about TransCanada Corp's $7 billion Keystone XL pipeline project, designed to feed 700,000 barrels of oil a day from the Canadian oil sands into the United States.
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and other environmental groups have said they believe diluted bitumen from Canadian oil sands is more corrosive than other grades of oil, fueling their concerns about spills.
(Excerpt) Read more at scientificamerican.com ...
The anti-science Obama administration continues.
Anti-science? Heck! They’re Luddites! Except when it comes to their own creature comforts — which they demand others pay for.
Ping.
Good thing they do not need RIFS regarding leaked crude on potential injuries to the buttocks due to excessive slipperiness of the oil.
That could take the libs YEARS to figure out oil is kinda... well... greasy.
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This is simply a delaying tactic to simultaneously appease the ignorant few, while also hurting the oil industry.
Johnny's kitchen test for corrosive substances:
1. Stick a cigarette butt in it, filter first. If it doesn't burst into smoke and flame, proceed to step 2.
2. Stick a spoon in it. If the spoon holds up, take a sample to the dish-washer.
3. Promise the dishwasher 3 free beers after shift if he'll taste it.
4a. Buy 3 beers out of petty cash and toast the memory of the former dishwasher. Put word out on the street there is an opening.
4b. If the dishwasher lives through it, using the pinky finger of the off hand, touch it. If it burns, wash in clear water and have a cleaver available in case it spreads. A little finger is a small thing to lose.
5. Remember the pH strips under the counter near where you are supposed to mix the sanitizing water. Measure pH.
Total elapsed time, 5 hours, if we start in the middle of a shift.
This is so easy a cook could do it.
/johnny
but a supposedly scientific magazine publishes this and doesn’t even blink an eye
blarney blarney blarney ....... I can’t even begin to believe the complete hog wash they will try to pass off as grade A pork bellies.
“President Barack Obama signed a new pipeline safety law earlier this month containing a little-noticed provision for a study on diluted bitumen that may answer some of the questions.”
How is it that Obama could sign a law such as this if it were never passed in the Republican controlled House of Representatives?
It’s Magic
I read an article the other day about pipelines. I was surprised to learn there’s already several carrying oil sands without a hitch.
This is nothing more than a delaying tactic so nobama can suck up to the environmaniacs.
As if there is no experience with transporting diluted bitumen (see, for example, Orinoco tar sands in Venezuela).
Why do I know that they are going to get the answer they seek?
Every petroleum company in North America has to be laughing at this.
Like an experienced pipeline operator wouldn't know how to handle the crude they've been shipping thru their Canadian network for years.
Just one more legal monkey wrench into the Keystone gears, courtesy of the envior-wackos.
Tar. Feathers. All of these swine.
A PH test does take 5 mins to do, there isn’t any reason for taking months to do this study .... and the Obama administration should ask the common sense question ... why would the pipeline company allow a corrive liquid that would destroy their billions of dollars invested in the pipeline to go up in smoke.
Most pipelines are owned by companies other than the oil company in the United States ... apparently a little known fact for the Obamas
Some quick Googling reveals he signed H.R.2845, the “Pipeline Safety, Regulatory Certainty, and Job Creation Act” on January 3, 2012. I presume the Republican House passed...but you never know...maybe it too was “deemed” passed.
He’s passed so many “Job Creation Acts” that we must be at more than full employment by now.
Just remember this article every time climate change comes up.
This article shows they think the public is so stupid, they would try to pass off such a poorly thought out scam as science.
The people who run these “non-profits” like NRDC....are truly the 1%....go look at their salaries...and their ties to other organizations....it’s sickening.
Libs gotz uses for greasy.
:-(
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