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Preparing for a possible emergency

May 27, 2015 by Rob Hislop Leave a Comment

Federal scientists at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (Nova Scotia) are studying the behaviour of diluted bitumen from the Alberta oil sands when it spills into the ocean. They’re finding it poses real challenges for any cleanup. “It is to a certain degree tougher to work with than conventional oil,” says Thomas King of the […]

Filed Under: Alberta, Canada, Environment, Innovation, News Tagged With: Alberta oil sands, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Chemical dispersants, conventional oil, diluted bitumen, oil sands petroleum, pipeline, rail, spills, tanker

Comment: Maude Barlow on pipelines

February 20, 2015 by Rob Hislop Leave a Comment

Your (Regina Leader-Post’s) editorial rightly highlights the danger of transporting oil by rail. But the Energy East pipeline – which would transport 1.1 million barrels of oil per day past the growing Harbour Landing subdivision – is not safer. According to U.S. data, rail incidents happened twice as often as pipeline spills from 2004 to […]

Filed Under: Editorial Tagged With: American Association of Railroads, energy, Energy East pipeline, fossil fuel, maud barlow, oil industry, oil sands, pipeline, rail, renewable, tar sands, trains

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