Alberta: Petrol State
Alberta is a Petrol state.
Just go to Calgary its capital to realize - when you arrive at the airport waiting for you there are advertising 'of Bakker-Hughes, the news start with detailed disussioni on oil prices, there' the Calgary Petroleum Club - in where you can only enter're part of a small circle of people with a license for oil - Chevron sponsors the pond in the city park, and if you take a ride in the city 'there are agencies that will offer all inclusive packages to give you permission trivellanti - from government charts, with those of the tribes' of the First Native - Indians, at bargain prices and in a short time.
I was there in January: it 'impossible to escape from oil.
There 'Center Shell, Chevron Texaco Plaza, Husky Energy Towers, all buildings have some kind of home to oil company.
It 's the heart of the Tar Sands of which we have spoken many times on this blog, a monstrous project to pull out "oil" sands bituminiche, destroying acres upon acres of boreal forest with huge energy input.
The Tar Sands are the reason why you want to build another monstrosity '- the pipeline Keystone XL pipeline that would cut the U.S. in half' - dall'Alberta to Texas and another one called Gateway and they should go from Tar Sands in Vancouver, for the oil of the Chinese.
As always, we are told that all is well, despite the evidence to the contrary musts - increases in cancers among communities' indigenous, air and water pollution, waste pits enromi with scraps of drilling in the open, no program serious for environmental restoration.
The Alberta and 'a petrolstato, yes, and I say so - there are dozens and dozens of editorials Canadian press to say this:
Alberta, a highly disfunctional petro been
Alberta and the curse of the Petro State
Alberta as a petro been
Is Canada becoming a Petro State?
So in this context, the rupture of a pipeline occurred Thursday night, what do you think?
The pipeline and 'broken in Sundre, Alberta, oil and' ended up in Jackson Creek and polluted the Gleniffer Lake Resort, communities 'where holiday makers have closed the marina and all the activities' water recreation have been suspended.
They were all evacuated within 10 km from the explosion, and there were dead fish and beavers.
The Plains Midstream Canada, which operates the pipeline not he's' she noticed the outbreak, but were residents to raise the alarm, alerted by the smell - coincidentally - hydrogen sulphide.
Then they said that the "sour crude oil" smell some, but not prolbemi poses to human health.
Who knows' cause then the evacuations, and who knows' why 'have also closed a dam of water for fear of oil contamination?
Meanwhile, people reported irritation problems and are advised to call a toll free number.
From the story of Mr. Gord Johnston, resident of the area:
the nauseating scent of crude oil hung in the air and a coffee-colored liquid lapped the banks
oil "boiling up" in the river at the site of a pipeline crossing
oil clotted one of the province's most crucial waterways and soaked nearby wetlands
"My place is destroyed," Mr. Johnston said, as he prepared to abandon his home and later head for a hospital to be treated for exposure to the fumes. "My whole life's work is gone.'ve Pretty well lost it all here. "
But oil and not 'stopped and it' arrived, after a journey of about one hundred kilometers from the city 'of Red Deer. c
At least 475,000 gallons of oil into the lake that serves as a water reservoir for the city '. Are distributing bottled water as a precaution, and of course the lake and 'closed.
From the pages of the Globe and Mail, the newspaper more widespread in Canada, the Governor of Alberta Alison Redford says this and 'an exception and that other pipelines still work - I hope!
He says they have hundreds of thousands of miles oloedotti in Alberta - 400,000 km to be precise - and that this is' only a rare event. 400,000 km are 350 travel Milan / Palermo about.
Alison Redford said:
"There are always effects, Such as oil spills, That as with economic development"
"There are always effects, such as oil spills that are associated with economic development."
"In Alberta, this does not happen very often, and when to it does we're atto get a handle on it quickly. The situation is in hand."
"In Alberta, this does not happen too often, and when it happens we deal with the situation quickly. The situation is' under control."
Sara '- but the government experts say that it will take' all summer to clean up. It is not only the river but the banks and vegetation along the river are covered with oil.
Preston Manning a politician instead of Alberta says:
"When you produce energy there are going to be environmental effects. You identify Those environmental effects - and the cost of them Avoiding or mitigating them - and then you try some way of integrating into That the cost of the product."
"When you produce energy there will be environmental effects. Indentifichi them - and the associated costs to avoid or mitigate them - and then you find some way to intregrare that cost in the product"
Note all the different ways to rationalize things and to say that all is well, typical of petrolstati - Tuttapposto the Canadian version.
The oloedotto who has just had his "unexpected" was 50 years old, carries oil bitter - similar to the disgust that in general we have in Italy, and it 'highly corrosive.
In Alberta, there are no plans for a review of the remaining oil, and there are many criticisms of the government for increased plant safety, including the head of Greenpeace Canada, Michael Hudema, which also points out that other pipelines are being built in Alberta.
Hudema adds
Once again we have a major spill go unnoticed by the pipeline company, this time flowing Directly into a major waterway.
How many times does this have to happen before Governments stop accepting the company's assurances That they are taking environmental protection seriously?
We need a full public review of pipeline safety Especially before new pipelines carrying even more December corrosive substances are approved. "
The company that operates the pipeline and 'the same as last year, and' was responsible for the spill of around 28,000 barrels of oil in another. They are almost 4 and a half million gallons of oil.
Here, too, the government of Alberta minimizes petrolizzato. This' Bob Curran of the group that is responsible for the conservation of energy resources of Alberta - the Energy Resources Conservation Board - ERCB.
"Just because an incident occurred with the same company, it does not Necessarily mean they were doing anything wrong. Sometimes strange things can happen That Are Beyond Their Control So That will be part of our investigation."
"Just 'cause there were two incidents with the same company does not necessarily mean they are doing anything wrong. Sometimes strange things can happen that are out of their control and investigate."
To which replied the president of an association of citizens, Don Bester:
The oil and gas industry is embedded in our politicians and the politicians control the ERCB.
The oil and gas industry and 'steeped in our politicians and politicians control the ERCB.
We need to keep up with the questions: How many pipelines are we talking about crossing the Red Deer River? How old are they? Who owns them? What condition are they in? What are the maintenance schedules?
We must continue with the questions: How many pipelines are crossing the Red Deer River? How old? Who is' the owner? What condition are they? What are the dates of maintenance?
Any time you lobby against anything our current government is doing, you get labeled a terrorist.
Every time you try to activate you contribute something which forms our government, you are called a terrorist.
Sound familiar?
And while they do the investigation, in the end, remains the conventional wisdom:
There's no way they can clean that up.
Just go to Calgary its capital to realize - when you arrive at the airport waiting for you there are advertising 'of Bakker-Hughes, the news start with detailed disussioni on oil prices, there' the Calgary Petroleum Club - in where you can only enter're part of a small circle of people with a license for oil - Chevron sponsors the pond in the city park, and if you take a ride in the city 'there are agencies that will offer all inclusive packages to give you permission trivellanti - from government charts, with those of the tribes' of the First Native - Indians, at bargain prices and in a short time.
I was there in January: it 'impossible to escape from oil.
There 'Center Shell, Chevron Texaco Plaza, Husky Energy Towers, all buildings have some kind of home to oil company.
It 's the heart of the Tar Sands of which we have spoken many times on this blog, a monstrous project to pull out "oil" sands bituminiche, destroying acres upon acres of boreal forest with huge energy input.
The Tar Sands are the reason why you want to build another monstrosity '- the pipeline Keystone XL pipeline that would cut the U.S. in half' - dall'Alberta to Texas and another one called Gateway and they should go from Tar Sands in Vancouver, for the oil of the Chinese.
As always, we are told that all is well, despite the evidence to the contrary musts - increases in cancers among communities' indigenous, air and water pollution, waste pits enromi with scraps of drilling in the open, no program serious for environmental restoration.
The Alberta and 'a petrolstato, yes, and I say so - there are dozens and dozens of editorials Canadian press to say this:
Alberta, a highly disfunctional petro been
Alberta and the curse of the Petro State
Alberta as a petro been
Is Canada becoming a Petro State?
So in this context, the rupture of a pipeline occurred Thursday night, what do you think?
The pipeline and 'broken in Sundre, Alberta, oil and' ended up in Jackson Creek and polluted the Gleniffer Lake Resort, communities 'where holiday makers have closed the marina and all the activities' water recreation have been suspended.
They were all evacuated within 10 km from the explosion, and there were dead fish and beavers.
The Plains Midstream Canada, which operates the pipeline not he's' she noticed the outbreak, but were residents to raise the alarm, alerted by the smell - coincidentally - hydrogen sulphide.
Then they said that the "sour crude oil" smell some, but not prolbemi poses to human health.
Who knows' cause then the evacuations, and who knows' why 'have also closed a dam of water for fear of oil contamination?
Meanwhile, people reported irritation problems and are advised to call a toll free number.
From the story of Mr. Gord Johnston, resident of the area:
the nauseating scent of crude oil hung in the air and a coffee-colored liquid lapped the banks
oil "boiling up" in the river at the site of a pipeline crossing
oil clotted one of the province's most crucial waterways and soaked nearby wetlands
"My place is destroyed," Mr. Johnston said, as he prepared to abandon his home and later head for a hospital to be treated for exposure to the fumes. "My whole life's work is gone.'ve Pretty well lost it all here. "
But oil and not 'stopped and it' arrived, after a journey of about one hundred kilometers from the city 'of Red Deer. c
At least 475,000 gallons of oil into the lake that serves as a water reservoir for the city '. Are distributing bottled water as a precaution, and of course the lake and 'closed.
From the pages of the Globe and Mail, the newspaper more widespread in Canada, the Governor of Alberta Alison Redford says this and 'an exception and that other pipelines still work - I hope!
He says they have hundreds of thousands of miles oloedotti in Alberta - 400,000 km to be precise - and that this is' only a rare event. 400,000 km are 350 travel Milan / Palermo about.
Alison Redford said:
"There are always effects, Such as oil spills, That as with economic development"
"There are always effects, such as oil spills that are associated with economic development."
"In Alberta, this does not happen very often, and when to it does we're atto get a handle on it quickly. The situation is in hand."
"In Alberta, this does not happen too often, and when it happens we deal with the situation quickly. The situation is' under control."
Sara '- but the government experts say that it will take' all summer to clean up. It is not only the river but the banks and vegetation along the river are covered with oil.
Preston Manning a politician instead of Alberta says:
"When you produce energy there are going to be environmental effects. You identify Those environmental effects - and the cost of them Avoiding or mitigating them - and then you try some way of integrating into That the cost of the product."
"When you produce energy there will be environmental effects. Indentifichi them - and the associated costs to avoid or mitigate them - and then you find some way to intregrare that cost in the product"
Note all the different ways to rationalize things and to say that all is well, typical of petrolstati - Tuttapposto the Canadian version.
The oloedotto who has just had his "unexpected" was 50 years old, carries oil bitter - similar to the disgust that in general we have in Italy, and it 'highly corrosive.
In Alberta, there are no plans for a review of the remaining oil, and there are many criticisms of the government for increased plant safety, including the head of Greenpeace Canada, Michael Hudema, which also points out that other pipelines are being built in Alberta.
Hudema adds
Once again we have a major spill go unnoticed by the pipeline company, this time flowing Directly into a major waterway.
How many times does this have to happen before Governments stop accepting the company's assurances That they are taking environmental protection seriously?
We need a full public review of pipeline safety Especially before new pipelines carrying even more December corrosive substances are approved. "
The company that operates the pipeline and 'the same as last year, and' was responsible for the spill of around 28,000 barrels of oil in another. They are almost 4 and a half million gallons of oil.
Here, too, the government of Alberta minimizes petrolizzato. This' Bob Curran of the group that is responsible for the conservation of energy resources of Alberta - the Energy Resources Conservation Board - ERCB.
"Just because an incident occurred with the same company, it does not Necessarily mean they were doing anything wrong. Sometimes strange things can happen That Are Beyond Their Control So That will be part of our investigation."
"Just 'cause there were two incidents with the same company does not necessarily mean they are doing anything wrong. Sometimes strange things can happen that are out of their control and investigate."
To which replied the president of an association of citizens, Don Bester:
The oil and gas industry is embedded in our politicians and the politicians control the ERCB.
The oil and gas industry and 'steeped in our politicians and politicians control the ERCB.
We need to keep up with the questions: How many pipelines are we talking about crossing the Red Deer River? How old are they? Who owns them? What condition are they in? What are the maintenance schedules?
We must continue with the questions: How many pipelines are crossing the Red Deer River? How old? Who is' the owner? What condition are they? What are the dates of maintenance?
Any time you lobby against anything our current government is doing, you get labeled a terrorist.
Every time you try to activate you contribute something which forms our government, you are called a terrorist.
Sound familiar?
And while they do the investigation, in the end, remains the conventional wisdom:
There's no way they can clean that up.