Become Energy Independent Oil and gas production from new horizontal drilling techniques and fracking technology may make the U. Some analysts believe that the United States will stop importing oil as a result of the new supplies. Approximately 1. Engineers project that the oil sands can sustain daily production of 2. As a result of the delays in approval for the Keystone XL Pipeline, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has proposed an alternative pipeline within Canadian borders that would carry the oil from Alberta to the coast of British Columbia to be shipped by tankers to China.
Controlling Access to the Canadian Oil Is Strategically Important to the United States While domestic sources of petroleum have been rising, the need for energy is also increasing worldwide.
However, a Canadian pipeline to British Columbia as proposed by the Canadian Prime Minister eliminates potential oil resources and reduces United States influence. A Pipeline Is the Best Way to Transport Oil Over Long Distances The proposed Keystone XL Pipeline will transport approximately , barrels of crude per day, roughly the equivalent of 3, tanker truck loads, delivering a load every 25 seconds around the clock, not including those trucks in transit to and from refineries over highways and bridges badly in need of repair and replacement.
Some have advocated railroad tanker cars to transport the oil if the pipeline is not approved. While more expensive, railroads offer delivery flexibility not available with a pipeline, simply by redirecting trains to different terminals. Each train would be approximately two and a quarter miles in length and require five to six locomotives with corresponding emissions. Also, pipelines have a lower spill rate per barrel transported than either trains, trucks, or barges.
While approval of the Keystone pipeline extensions makes economic and strategic sense, the evidence is incontrovertible that the increasing use of carbon fuels is a major contributor to global warming and climate change. Despite the general public perception that the link between global warming and our activities is uncertain, the overwhelming consensus of climate scientists Under President Barack Obama, the State Department published an environmental impact report in that posited that the pipeline expansion would not have a serious or even substantial impact on greenhouse-gas emissions.
Crushing the pipeline-expansion project will instead force companies to adopt riskier modes of transporting crude oil, such as trucks and rail service — an unwelcome prospect to West Virginians especially, who remember the 14 tankers that derailed six years ago.
These forms of transportation also increase emissions. To anyone truly interested in optimizing health and human safety for the American people and our friends in Canada — as well as protecting the environment and promoting well-paying jobs — supporting Keystone XL is a no-brainer. Unfortunately enough, these serious consequences reveal how working-class Americans who voted for President Biden are the ones who will suffer the most as he focuses on an ideological, rather than fact-based, climate agenda.
Dubious policy ought to never be prioritized over the real and immediate needs of hard-working American families. It is my hope, and the hope of a great many elected officials and countless Americans, that the president will reverse his position and allow construction of the Keystone XL pipeline to continue.
The president should reverse course. No charge. The Hoeven-Lugar-Vitter amendment to the highway funding bill, which we are now working to pass, authorizes TransCanada to construct and operate the Keystone XL pipeline from Alberta, Canada, to the Midwest and Gulf Coast, transporting an additional , barrels of oil per day to U. This includes , barrels of crude oil a day from the Bakken region of North Dakota and Montana.
John Hoeven. That's key to my state, because providing pipeline capacity and gathering systems for that much North Dakota crude will take as many as trucks a day off of roads in the oil patch. That's a win-win for producers, state revenues and most importantly, public safety on our Western highways. More Videos Below is a list of some of the important safety features publicized by TransCanada. These shutoff valves will be placed every 20 miles, and extra valves automated with spring return actuators will also be placed, where required, to protect water crossings and other areas of high environmental or strategic importance.
This fail-safe automation process can isolate any area within few tens of seconds. Finally, it has been well-established that pipelines are, by far, the safest mode of transportation for oil and gas.
Besides pipeline workers are less likely to be injured on the job and pipelines have fewer incidents per mile than trains and trucks.
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