Snow pileup damages Alaska pipeline company’s massive Valdez oil tanks

Anchorage Daily News ^ | 25 March 2022 | Nathaniel Herz, Elizabeth Harball

[NautiNurse]

Important news during the current oil situation.

There are 14 Valdez storage tanks. Each storage tank is an acre in size and holds up to a half-million barrels of crude — about 2.5% of America’s daily oil demand.

[Bon of Babble]

...massive amounts of snow piled on top of its oil storage tanks in Valdez

Must be from all that global warming that I keep hearing about.

Wasn't all the arctic ice supposed to be melted by now?

[AndyJackson]

has called in backup crews to contend with massive amounts of snow piled on top of its oil storage tanks in Valdez

Poor guys. They could never have seen that one coming.

[KosmicKitty]

It’s never snowed in Alaska before?

Or is this just part of the “new world order?”

[Who is John Galt?]

Must be from all that global warming that I keep hearing about.

Didn't you get the Dem 'talking points'? Now it's called "climate change" - agree to the Dems' demands, or Mother Earth kills the hostages...

;>)

[HighSierra5]

More snow = global warming. Slavery = freedom.

[McGruff]

[Bon of Babble]

The use of the term “Climate Change” is so they can cover both ends.

Things heat up - it’s global warming. Cool down = Global cooling - both deemed abnormal and due to “human activity.”

This is so they can implement their NWO.

[NautiNurse]

Poor guys. They could never have seen that one coming.

The tanks were originally designed when more and warmer oil was flowing down the pipeline, which used to thaw more of the snow on top of the roofs. But that’s changed as the volume of crude produced on the North Slope has diminished.

[mad_as_he$$]

The tanks clearly are being fully utilized at this time, the article states that the snow would’ve melted off when they filled the tanks with heated Alaskan crude as was the case when the pipeline was almost fully utilized. I read somewhere (a couple weeks ago) that the pipeline is only a 60% capacity.

[Marko413]

Can’t move it by pipeline? Guess we will move it by tanker along the pacific coast. What could go wrong?

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

All well and good for the terminally dense Libs. But...Earth is a very dynamic, powerful collection of systems that are driven by an even more powerful force...our Sun.

But the terminally dense either don't get it or can't wrap their heads around that. It just HAS to be those SUVs.

[NautiNurse]

the snow would’ve melted off when they filled the tanks with heated Alaskan crude...the pipeline is only a 60% capacity.

Another example of Lesko Brandon's diminished capacity.

[JBW1949]

Before the 1980’s, our climate had never, ever changed...It had always remained the same...In the 1980’s, man began the dreadful act of changing our climate and destroying our world......

Livescience.com: The scientific community began to unite for action on climate change in the 1980s...

[wild74]

which has damaged infrastructure and vented petroleum vapors to the environment in what state regulators say are violations of the Clean Air Act

LOL you have to vent to keep from blowing everything up, probably nothing more than a fumes recovery system is temporally down.

[Robert DeLong]

So much for those fears of icebergs melting at unprecedented rates, I guess. 😋

[AndyJackson]

Ah so it was a deliberte cost cutting measure. Instead of designing it structurally to hold the amount of snow that could accumulate in say a 50 year snow storm, they assumed that a lot of it melted.

Well, I guess this falls into the category of true tragedy.

[bray]

The flow of crude out of Alaska has diminished. Thank you Joe Bribeim.

[goodnesswins]

Ah...memories...I typed most the invoices for Caterpillar equipment sold to Alyeska (from NC Fabick) for building the pipeline (well, I used an IBM MTST). The pipeline is getting old. Also remember one of our mechanics in Alaska a few years later made more than the company President (overtime).

[NautiNurse]

The flow of crude out of Alaska has diminished. Thank you Joe Bribeim.

Yes, the current situation has much more to do with purposefully diminished oil flow than excessive snow.