Some want us to believe that the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada will only do minor environmental damage. This is not the truth. For every barrel of oil it takes 2.5 to four barrels of water for refining. After refining, this water is so toxic that coming in contact can cause death. Any water leaks from these holding lakes would be catastrophic. There is a lake north of Alberta, Canada that is 20-square miles of this toxic wastewater. In Canada they use 0.6 billion cubic feet per day of natural gas in this process. This process creates three times more greenhouse gas emissions. The Keystone pipeline will end in Texas where they are going to build a 1,116 acre port called GT Omni Port. In the first nine months of this year, the United States is on track to become a net-refined exporter for the first time in more than six decades. The U.S. exported 753.4 million barrels of everything from gasoline to jet fuel during the first nine month of this year; the U.S. imported 689.4 million barrels. The shift is due to higher output of corn ethanol, and American drivers using less gas.
John Maakestad
Mesa
Leon Ceniceros posted at 7:24 pm on Sat, Dec 24, 2011.
The corn needed to make the ethenol is destroying the lives of 3rd World farmers, their families and villages but.......AS LONG AS THE...."GREENIES AND THE ECO'S" are happy here in America....like who gives a rat's patootie...........HARVEY MILK FOR PRESIDENT............[wink]
Dale Whiting posted at 7:34 pm on Sat, Dec 24, 2011.
John,
Very interesting, interesting in deed!
I wondered why Canadian crude oil tar sands were not being fully refined in Canada. Looks like too much polution would occure there, so we are having to pollute Canada a lot and polute Houston a bit less.
Then we have the aquifer to worry about. Is the pipeline above ground all the way, or can leaks seep into the ground water before they are discovered?
Sooner or later we are going to have to find alternatives to natural gas, crude oil and tar sands and coal. Hopefully for the future sake of humanity we do it in time! Drill Baby, drill only accelerates our need for alternative energy sources. Once all of the glaciers have melted [and they are melting now faster than ever before in the history of human kind, and the non-replentishable ground water is gone or poluted beyond usage, we can always drink Doctor Pepper! 10-2-4!
truth posted at 2:37 pm on Sun, Dec 25, 2011.
Not only the greenies the TEA PARTY are part of this, the federal government gives farmers a tax hand out of 27 billion dollars a year and the GOP and TEA PARTY are unwilling to end this corporate tax hand out, and lets not forget the 24 billion hand out to the oil companies receive as they Sc##w us. The Keystone pipe line will not lower energy cost in U.S. it will only create more profits for the oil companies and create a super fund clean up, LET THE TEA PARTY and GOP EAT CAKE.
Dale Whiting posted at 11:37 am on Mon, Dec 26, 2011.
John, etc.
While I was out yesterday or Saturday, my Video Recorder caught two interesting programs touching on the XL pipeline. One on CNBC sustained John's assessment that processing tar sands takes a heck of a lot of natural gas and water to make steem which is forced underground to heat up and drive out [by either force or surface pumping] crude oil. Neither explained why we don't just refine the crude oil on spot and pipe product south to be consumed in the mid west and east. No sense taking it all the way to Houston, there to be exported!
The other program explained that if we do not develope tar sands in Canada, we will have higher oil prices sooner than if we do. But even adding Canada's huge reserves, we still run short. We need to be drilling responsibly, developing tar sands responsibly, advancing efficiency and conservation responsibily, developing natural gas responsibly, and of course responsibly developing the long term future of the planet, non-poluting renewable energy resources, wind, solar, geothermal, nuclear, even tidal. We have no idea which of these will pan out best. But we cannot afford to promote only the one or two which due to our current momentum with crude oil is most straightforward.
Tree hugging has nothing to do with this.
samkat posted at 3:44 pm on Tue, Dec 27, 2011.
What has not been touched on is that the Chinese are more than willing to step in and relieve the Canadians of their oil if we do not want to take it. Of course, the naysayers are willing to see this take place in order to reduce our presence in the global economy.
truth posted at 3:08 pm on Wed, Dec 28, 2011.
What you are missing is the oil is going to be exported that is why they are building the port.