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.
Must be from all that global warming that I keep hearing about.
Wasn't all the arctic ice supposed to be melted by now?
Poor guys. They could never have seen that one coming.
It’s never snowed in Alaska before?
Or is this just part of the “new world order?”
More snow = global warming. Slavery = freedom.
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.
Can’t move it by pipeline? Guess we will move it by tanker along the pacific coast. What could go wrong?
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...
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.
So much for those fears of icebergs melting at unprecedented rates, I guess. 😋
The flow of crude out of Alaska has diminished. Thank you Joe Bribeim.
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).
so that’s where all our snow went this Winter , the local nuts think it’s Global Warming
Ask the commies what happened to their global warming lie?
(Esp. Larry Fink of BlackRock)
We need to fill that pipeline back up! The infrastructure and willpower in Alaska is there and ready to go.
If only the pinko-greenies would let us do it!