Peaceful Protest Underway against Tar Sands Oil Pipeline

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Transcanada hires local police to be private security for pipeline builds. Here's some of their training material.

In the midst of recent national controversy surrounding government surveillance of the public, a recent Freedom of Information Act request to the Nebraska State Patrol has exposed evidence that TransCanada provided trainings to federal agents and local Nebraska police to suppress nonviolent activists protesting the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline by arresting them on “anti-terrorism statutes.” The presentation slides, obtained by grassroots landowner advocacy group Bold Nebraska, target Tar Sands Blockade activists by name.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/147203140...Security-to-Local-Law-Enforcement-Part-1-of-3

http://www.scribd.com/doc/147203883...Security-to-Local-Law-Enforcement-Part-2-of-3

http://www.scribd.com/doc/147205465...Security-to-Local-Law-Enforcement-Part-3-of-3

http://www.scribd.com/doc/147208526...arges-for-Illegal-Protest-Action-Presentation

http://www.scribd.com/doc/147206003/TransCanada-presentation-to-FBI-on-pipeline-projects

http://nacstop.org/EastTexasObserver.html
 
http://grist.org/climate-energy/ter...ments-call-keystone-xl-protesters-terrorists/

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Sorry to inject this note of pessimism, but I doubt blocking pipelines alone will prevent the colossal stupidity of tar-to-ICEV tank. As shown below, as a society, we are quite willing to accept not only higher gas prices, but also risk large numbers of human casualties to satisfy our ICE addiction.

The deadly weekend explosion of a runaway crude-carrying train in Quebec threatens to ratchet up scrutiny of rising crude-by-rail shipments on both sides of the U.S.-Canada border, amid a boom in North American oil production.

In both countries, shipments of crude by rail have shot up sharply, as producers race to get all their new oil to market and as pipeline companies scramble to build new lines or reconfigure old ones to handle the growing volumes. Meanwhile, uncertainty over several big pipeline projects—including approval delays for TransCanada Corp.'s TRP.T +1.43%Keystone XL, which would connect Western Canada's booming oil sands development to the Gulf Coast—have sent some oil companies looking to rail as a longer-term solution.

Canadian authorities have confirmed five deaths and estimate some 40 people are still missing after a runaway train carrying crude derailed early Saturday and exploded, demolishing a large swath of Lac Megantic, Quebec, including as many as 30 incinerated buildings. Investigators, citing the high death toll, have opened a criminal investigation. Canadian regulators have said they are concentrating their probe initially on the train, its braking system and the track.

In the U.S., shipments of crude by rail have gone from 9,500 carloads in 2008, the year widely seen as the beginning of the current oil boom, to 233,811 carloads in 2012, according to the Association of American Railroads. A carload is typically about 740 barrels.

About 16.6 million barrels of Canadian crude were shipped by rail to the U.S. in 2012, accounting for about 2% of Canadian crude exports, according to data from Canada's National Energy Board. But industry estimates say that could grow to as much as 73 million barrels in 2013 and nearly 110 million barrels by 2014...

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Companies are extracting so much more 'oil like stuff' that transporting it isn't a question of either/or. Adding the KXL won't decrease road and rail oil shipments.

But the push against pipelines from Alberta is making a dent in the developer's financials.

And it's much, much better to resist than to simply roll over and play dead.
 
edatoakrun said:
Sorry to inject this note of pessimism, but I doubt blocking pipelines alone will prevent the colossal stupidity of tar-to-ICEV tank. As shown below, as a society, we are quite willing to accept not only higher gas prices, but also risk large numbers of human casualties to satisfy our ICE addiction.

The deadly weekend explosion of a runaway crude-carrying train in Quebec threatens to ratchet up scrutiny of rising crude-by-rail shipments on both sides of the U.S.-Canada border, amid a boom in North American oil production.

In both countries, shipments of crude by rail have shot up sharply, as producers race to get all their new oil to market and as pipeline companies scramble to build new lines or reconfigure old ones to handle the growing volumes. Meanwhile, uncertainty over several big pipeline projects—including approval delays for TransCanada Corp.'s TRP.T +1.43%Keystone XL, which would connect Western Canada's booming oil sands development to the Gulf Coast—have sent some oil companies looking to rail as a longer-term solution.

Canadian authorities have confirmed five deaths and estimate some 40 people are still missing after a runaway train carrying crude derailed early Saturday and exploded, demolishing a large swath of Lac Megantic, Quebec, including as many as 30 incinerated buildings. Investigators, citing the high death toll, have opened a criminal investigation. Canadian regulators have said they are concentrating their probe initially on the train, its braking system and the track.

In the U.S., shipments of crude by rail have gone from 9,500 carloads in 2008, the year widely seen as the beginning of the current oil boom, to 233,811 carloads in 2012, according to the Association of American Railroads. A carload is typically about 740 barrels.

About 16.6 million barrels of Canadian crude were shipped by rail to the U.S. in 2012, accounting for about 2% of Canadian crude exports, according to data from Canada's National Energy Board. But industry estimates say that could grow to as much as 73 million barrels in 2013 and nearly 110 million barrels by 2014...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324867904578591932401897430.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
it might be a safe assumption that if there was a pipeline available a goodly amount of crude oil that is being transported via rail would be run the pipes
 
apvbguy said:
it might be a safe assumption that if there was a pipeline available a goodly amount of crude oil that is being transported via rail would be run the pipes
There are pipelines available.

In the real world, oil companies are using pipelines AND trains AND trucks.

At least a train carries a finite amount of petroleum products. When the Enbridge pipeline burst in Michigan in 2010 it dumped more than a million gallons of diluted bitumen.
 
To the last drop

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61X4IQqnmd0[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8m5PFuYRSI[/youtube]
 
edatoakrun said:
Sorry to inject this note of pessimism, but I doubt blocking pipelines alone will prevent the colossal stupidity of tar-to-ICEV tank. As shown below, as a society, we are quite willing to accept not only higher gas prices, but also risk large numbers of human casualties to satisfy our ICE addiction.
Still - you gotta love the spin. The tar sand lovers say, "see? this proves we'll have an unending supply to turn into gas for a ga jillion years! " . . . . . rather than realize if we weren't running out of the cheep / high quality stuff - we'd never be going after the low grade / expensive to extract stuff.
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edatoakrun said:
Sorry to inject this note of pessimism, but I doubt blocking pipelines alone will prevent the colossal stupidity of tar-to-ICEV tank. As shown below, as a society, we are quite willing to accept not only higher gas prices, but also risk large numbers of human casualties to satisfy our ICE addiction.

To add insult to injury, this train was hauling light crude from the US Bakken fields...and it was mis-labeled.

http://bangordailynews.com/2013/09/...explosion-mislabeled-was-violently-explosive/
http://www.midwestenergynews.com/20...-makeup-faces-scrutiny-in-rail-car-explosion/
 
AUSTIN, Texas, January 10, 2014 (ENS) – The highest court in Texas has delivered a victory for landowners fighting the seizure of their property by TransCanada Keystone Pipeline, LP for a pipeline route under “eminent domain.”...

The Texas Supreme Court Tuesday ruled in favor of Texas landowner Julia Trigg Crawford, ordering the Canadian pipeline giant to submit information by February 6 as the justices weigh arguments in the case regarding abuse of eminent domain by the company on her property...

When landowners such as Crawford have been unwilling to sell TransCanada their land, the company has used eminent domain to seize properties along the pipeline route.
http://ens-newswire.com/2014/01/10/ameriscan-jan-10-2014/
 
Sounds like costs may wear them down faster than anything else.

http://www.fool.ca/2014/05/30/the-oil-sands-crisis-nobody-is-talking-about/?source=c75yhocs0040001" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

During the early days of the oil sands, this wasn’t such a big deal. It was so cheap to produce that increased costs were just a minor inconvenience. These days, that easy oil is mostly a thing of the past. New projects have much higher costs than previous generations, and that’s not even including staff.

I didn't realize there ever was such a thing as "easy oil" in tar sands.
 
LTLFTcomposite said:
I didn't realize there ever was such a thing as "easy oil" in tar sands.

The total resource in tar sands is huge. However, it is not at all clear that a lot of the tar can be extracted in an economic way, not even counting the climate change issue. The "easy oil" is near the surface. Deeper tar stands might just stay in place, as coal => liquids may be cheaper for a long very time.

Or maybe we should say "hard oil" and "very hard oil"...
 
The Tar Sands Oil Pipeline is like the mythical Hydra.

First they wanted to go straight through the USA to the Gulf of Mexico ---- On hold
Then they tried to go West through British Columbia --- Facing stiff resistance
Now one of their projects is a pipeline East to Quebec and New Brunswick --- is moving forward for now, unfortunately.

The last option is a true horror. They will cross almost a thousand waterways with the pipeline before loading a huge portion of the Oil on ships bound for China.
 
Welcome to the US post-2014 midterm election little shop of horrors.

http://evworld.com/focus.cfm?cid=249
Audio interview with a leader of the Lakota Sioux at the link.
Known as the Sioux, the Lakota of America's Great Plains have fought fiercely for their rights, especially when it endangered their wellbeing, first Red Cloud's War and the Lakota War of the 19th century, then the siege of Wounded Knee in 1973. Now they see the authorization of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline as an 'act of war against our people.'
“The House has now signed our death warrants and the death warrants of our children and grandchildren. The Rosebud Sioux Tribe will not allow this pipeline through our lands. We are outraged at the lack of intergovernmental cooperation. We are a sovereign nation and we are not being treated as such. We will close our reservation borders to Keystone XL. Authorizing Keystone XL is an act of war against our people.”
What is known as this point is that as a sovereign nation, recognized by century-old treaties, the Rosebud Sioux, at least, are not going to allow the pipeline to be built on their tribal lands. They aren't the only native peoples opposed to the pipeline: so are their compatriots in Canada. There is only one reason TransCanada wants to build their pipeline through the heart of the American Great Plains and over the nation's largest fresh water aquifer: it's because the First Nations in Canada won't let them cross their lands to the West Coast, which is really the ultimate market for this incredibly dirty fuel: Asia. Denied access to Canada's own Pacific Coast, TransCanada wants to pump their toxic slurry down to the U.S. Gulf Coast, refine it, and from there transship it its final market, which isn't the USA, Little Elk contends. It's too dirty a fuel to be sold in the United States, he said.
 
LTLFTcomposite said:
Nearly six minutes to ask and answer a question. And they say brevity is the soul of wit.
"They" only say that when they don't like the answer.

(In my best southern drawl): Would you like a side of ad hominey with that? :lol:
 
http://www.desmogblog.com/2015/04/3...-only-two-years-operation-95-worn-one-section

Documents obtained by DeSmogBlog reveal an alarming rate of corrosion to parts of TransCanada's Keystone 1 pipeline. A mandatory inspection test revealed a section of the pipeline's wall had corroded 95%, leaving it paper-thin in one area (one-third the thickness of a dime) and dangerously thin in three other places, leading TransCanada to immediately shut it down. The cause of the corrosion is being kept from the public by federal regulators and TransCanada.

“It is highly unusual for a pipeline not yet two years old to experience such deep corrosion issues,” Evan Vokes, a former TransCanada pipeline engineer-turned-whistleblower, told DeSmogBlog. “Something very severe happened that the public needs to know about.”
 
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