The report said that the oil would be extracted whether the pipeline was built or not, and that it could be transported by other, more carbon-intensive means like trucks or rail cars in the absence of Keystone.
Visitors will be transported by shuttle bus more than a mile (2km) from the venue to see the stones.
U.S. government approval of the Keystone XL pipeline is on hold after the Environmental Protection Agency in April took issue with a State Department review that concluded that the tar-like oil from the Alberta sands that would be transported by the pipeline emits 17% more greenhouse gases than conventional crude oil.
So it must be transported by train, truck and barge, a more expensive transportation network that is suddenly finding it hard to keep up with the surge in ethanol production.
A previous study has suggested that patients with potentially more serious illness or injury were more likely to be transported by ambulance [ 24].
There, the pollution rises higher into the atmosphere, where it can be transported by horizontal air currents to the more stable zones, forming the top layer of the sandwich.
Although driver age was not associated with injury severity in the multivariable model (χ2 = 0.9, p = 0.48) (Table 1), younger occupants were more likely to be transported by younger drivers, with 55.1 % of the young teen occupants travelling with a teen driver.
Metropolitan (vs rural) patients were more likely to be transported by EMS ambulance to admitting hospitals (38.5% vs 19.4%).
"More oil is going to be transported by rail if we don't build pipelines.
In the case we studied, the bulk of the emitted tephra is transported by the more numerous weaker pulses, which contribute about 3/4 of the overall mass flux (i.e., mass eruption rate) which for the Eyjafjallajökull eruption during 8 10 May 2010 is found between 2.2 and 3.5 · 104 kg/s.
