Tar Sands Pipeline Environmental Impact Study
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John Mayo
Jun 6, 2011, 1:30:42 PM6/6/11
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Today is the last day you may comment on the revised Environmental
Impact Study by the Department of State on the Keystone XL pipeline.
Another land grab for foreign (and corporate) profit using eminent
domain.
Below are my comments. I hope many of you have been able to comment
also. If not you have until the end of the day to be sure your
comments are accepted.
Comment at:: Keystone XL Project EIS Official Comments Page
John Mayo.
Comment on the Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement for
the Trans Canada Tar Sands Pipeline:
The SDEIS ignores the obvious dangers of the proposed scheme to
transport toxic and highly abrasive oil through America’s heartland,
and stands in support of a foreign oil company (Trans-Canada) trying
to bully us in to becoming a conduit for their highly toxic DilBit
(chemically diluted sandy oil sludge), pumped at high temperature and
even higher pressure. This DilBit has never before been transported by
pipeline in Texas, and has been pipeline transported for only a short
time in other parts of the US. (Up to this time the sandy bitumen has
been upgraded to lighter, less abrasive oil for pipeline transport.)
Very disturbingly, a one year old pipeline running through Michigan
has spilt toxic oil 12 times! The most serious spill of 840,000
gallons of this toxic sludge laid waste to 30 miles of the Kalamazoo
River and adjoining wetlands. There are serious technical voids in
their plan to prevent corrosion and leaks in their thin walled pipe as
well as valves and other controls. Add to that their use of standard
thickness pipe (.465”) which is made in India and not subject to
quality control safety standards in place here in the US. What they
have already tried in Michigan and are planning to use here in Texas
is an accident waiting to happen.
So serious is the danger from piping this toxic sludge, Canada won’t
allow pipeline transport either to their east or west coast. They know
something we should know. It is too costly and dangerous to allow it
being piped across their country to either of their coast, so Trans
Canada want to plumb it through good old US of A to our coast. Profit
for them, nothing but risk for us. In fact pipeline companies involved
with this oil transport are demanding indemnity from property owners
for any damage resulting from leaks and spillage.
It’s not our typical crude oil. Trans-Canada’s planned pipeline will
transport heated and pressurized heavier than water toxic DilBit
through our farmland, across our rivers (Red River, Sabine, Sulfur,
Angelina, Neches, just to name a few in Texas alone), over three
aquifers (including the Carrizo –Wilcox which supplies water for 10-12
million people in 60 counties), and even active faults in the Mount
Enterprise Fault zone which is in the immediate vicinity of the
outcrop area of the Carrizo-Wicox aquifer. It will pass dangerously
close to Lake Nacogdoches. I know a lot of people who drink that water
and want it to stay clean!
Mining of Tar Sands bitumen is the most energy consuming form of oil
production known and runs opposed to President Obama’s policy of
energy efficiency and use of renewable energy sources. Tar Sands
DilBit is also the most toxic form of oil to be refined, and will
increase already dangerous levels of air and water pollution for the
millions of people living in the gulf coast area.
To review, twelve leaks in one year along 1700miles of new pipeline
proves to us that pipeline technology currently in use (compressing,
heating and flowing) is not capable of carrying this highly abrasive,
deadly substance. For the few jobs that will be created (most of them
temporary, and no new jobs at refineries), it will not be worth the
risk. For the land that will be taken from citizens for pennies on the
dollar, it will not be worth the risk. For the increased air and
water pollution along the gulf coast it’s not worth the risk. There
are really no benefits to Americans with this pipeline, in fact there
is really only risk and a possibility that gas prices in the US may
actually increase do to bypassing Midwest refineries.
Keep in mind, there is plenty of pipeline space in US at this time.
This pipeline is for Canadian use only and their dirty oil is not for
our profit, it’s for Canadian (and their Chinese partners) profit. We
don’t make any royalties off this pipeline or the seriously scary goo
they propose to pass through it.
Please stop this Tar Sands pipeline project in its tracks. It
permanently takes property away from US citizens for someone else’s
profit, and leaves us with dangerous and potentially catastrophic
environmental consequences. There is no upside for Americans in this
scheme.
Sincerely,
John Mayo.
Impact Study by the Department of State on the Keystone XL pipeline.
Another land grab for foreign (and corporate) profit using eminent
domain.
Below are my comments. I hope many of you have been able to comment
also. If not you have until the end of the day to be sure your
comments are accepted.
Comment at:: Keystone XL Project EIS Official Comments Page
John Mayo.
Comment on the Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement for
the Trans Canada Tar Sands Pipeline:
The SDEIS ignores the obvious dangers of the proposed scheme to
transport toxic and highly abrasive oil through America’s heartland,
and stands in support of a foreign oil company (Trans-Canada) trying
to bully us in to becoming a conduit for their highly toxic DilBit
(chemically diluted sandy oil sludge), pumped at high temperature and
even higher pressure. This DilBit has never before been transported by
pipeline in Texas, and has been pipeline transported for only a short
time in other parts of the US. (Up to this time the sandy bitumen has
been upgraded to lighter, less abrasive oil for pipeline transport.)
Very disturbingly, a one year old pipeline running through Michigan
has spilt toxic oil 12 times! The most serious spill of 840,000
gallons of this toxic sludge laid waste to 30 miles of the Kalamazoo
River and adjoining wetlands. There are serious technical voids in
their plan to prevent corrosion and leaks in their thin walled pipe as
well as valves and other controls. Add to that their use of standard
thickness pipe (.465”) which is made in India and not subject to
quality control safety standards in place here in the US. What they
have already tried in Michigan and are planning to use here in Texas
is an accident waiting to happen.
So serious is the danger from piping this toxic sludge, Canada won’t
allow pipeline transport either to their east or west coast. They know
something we should know. It is too costly and dangerous to allow it
being piped across their country to either of their coast, so Trans
Canada want to plumb it through good old US of A to our coast. Profit
for them, nothing but risk for us. In fact pipeline companies involved
with this oil transport are demanding indemnity from property owners
for any damage resulting from leaks and spillage.
It’s not our typical crude oil. Trans-Canada’s planned pipeline will
transport heated and pressurized heavier than water toxic DilBit
through our farmland, across our rivers (Red River, Sabine, Sulfur,
Angelina, Neches, just to name a few in Texas alone), over three
aquifers (including the Carrizo –Wilcox which supplies water for 10-12
million people in 60 counties), and even active faults in the Mount
Enterprise Fault zone which is in the immediate vicinity of the
outcrop area of the Carrizo-Wicox aquifer. It will pass dangerously
close to Lake Nacogdoches. I know a lot of people who drink that water
and want it to stay clean!
Mining of Tar Sands bitumen is the most energy consuming form of oil
production known and runs opposed to President Obama’s policy of
energy efficiency and use of renewable energy sources. Tar Sands
DilBit is also the most toxic form of oil to be refined, and will
increase already dangerous levels of air and water pollution for the
millions of people living in the gulf coast area.
To review, twelve leaks in one year along 1700miles of new pipeline
proves to us that pipeline technology currently in use (compressing,
heating and flowing) is not capable of carrying this highly abrasive,
deadly substance. For the few jobs that will be created (most of them
temporary, and no new jobs at refineries), it will not be worth the
risk. For the land that will be taken from citizens for pennies on the
dollar, it will not be worth the risk. For the increased air and
water pollution along the gulf coast it’s not worth the risk. There
are really no benefits to Americans with this pipeline, in fact there
is really only risk and a possibility that gas prices in the US may
actually increase do to bypassing Midwest refineries.
Keep in mind, there is plenty of pipeline space in US at this time.
This pipeline is for Canadian use only and their dirty oil is not for
our profit, it’s for Canadian (and their Chinese partners) profit. We
don’t make any royalties off this pipeline or the seriously scary goo
they propose to pass through it.
Please stop this Tar Sands pipeline project in its tracks. It
permanently takes property away from US citizens for someone else’s
profit, and leaves us with dangerous and potentially catastrophic
environmental consequences. There is no upside for Americans in this
scheme.
Sincerely,
John Mayo.
John Mayo
Jun 6, 2011, 1:20:58 PM6/6/11
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anne tindell
Jun 6, 2011, 2:22:19 PM6/6/11
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Your letter was way better than mine!
I made some modifications here and there and sent mine also to the
President, Hillary Clinton, and Lisa Jackson via their general
individual websites.
Anne
I made some modifications here and there and sent mine also to the
President, Hillary Clinton, and Lisa Jackson via their general
individual websites.
Anne
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