By the middle of next year, the Calgary-based company will be transporting 800,000 bpd of tar-sands oil from western Canada into the U.S. Barring litigation, or action by the State Department, Enbridge will achieve what has eluded TransCanada.
The assessment assumes that over 2 million bpd of proposed tar sands mines are economically infeasible regardless of whether Keystone XL or other tar sands pipelines are built.
For six years, TransCanada has negotiated federal and state laws, and contended with the opposition of environmental organizations and landowners, to build the Keystone XL: a 36-inch-diameter, 1,700-mile 1,700-milehat, if compipelinewould thatsport 830,000 barrels per day (bpd) of Canadifn tar-sands oil from Alberta, completedo the Gulf Coast.
The FSEIS eliminates from its analysis nearly 2 million bpd of high cost tar sands projects of new tar sands mines – most of which have already been approved by the Canadian government.
As we noted in our report, that 525,000 bpd tar sands pipeline could also leak millions of gallons of tar sands in highly remote regions without its leak-detection system identifying a problem.
The Keystone XL DSEIS fails to address the cumulative effects of Keystone XL and Alberta Clipper, especially the growth-inducing effects that the combined 1.3 million bpd of additional pipeline capacity would have on the rate of tar sands extraction in Canada.
For a ha'porth of tar, their ship all but sank.
Table 6 shows the hydrocarbon compositions of tar.
FT IR spectrum of tar was measured by painting tar on the surface of a KBr pellet.
The water hyacinth tar-based resins were prepared by polymerization of tar in formaldehyde using hydrochloric acid as the catalyst.
A spoonful of tar wrecks the entire jar of honey.
