Post by the Scribe on Aug 28, 2022 15:45:04 GMT
What Is Keystone XL?
The Keystone XL pipeline extension, proposed by TC Energy (then TransCanada) in 2008, was initially designed to transport the planet’s dirtiest fossil fuel, tar sands oil, to market—and fast. As an expansion of the company’s existing Keystone Pipeline System, which has been operating since 2010 (and continues to send Canadian tar sands crude oil from Alberta to various processing hubs in the middle of the United States), the pipeline promised to dramatically increase capacity to process the 168 billion barrels of crude oil locked up under Canada’s boreal forest. It was expected to transport 830,000 barrels of Alberta tar sands oil per day to refineries on the Gulf Coast of Texas. From the refineries, the oil would be sent chiefly overseas—not to gasoline pumps in the United States.
www.nrdc.org/stories/what-keystone-pipeline
Fox News mentioned the Keystone Pipeline 141 times in one week during the network’s coverage of the War in Ukraine
www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-news-mentioned-keystone-pipeline-141-times-one-week-during-networks-coverage-war
Yet Keystone would have no impact on current energy prices
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WRITTEN BY TED MACDONALD
PUBLISHED 03/01/22 3:58 PM EST
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The Keystone XL pipeline extension, proposed by TC Energy (then TransCanada) in 2008, was initially designed to transport the planet’s dirtiest fossil fuel, tar sands oil, to market—and fast. As an expansion of the company’s existing Keystone Pipeline System, which has been operating since 2010 (and continues to send Canadian tar sands crude oil from Alberta to various processing hubs in the middle of the United States), the pipeline promised to dramatically increase capacity to process the 168 billion barrels of crude oil locked up under Canada’s boreal forest. It was expected to transport 830,000 barrels of Alberta tar sands oil per day to refineries on the Gulf Coast of Texas. From the refineries, the oil would be sent chiefly overseas—not to gasoline pumps in the United States.
www.nrdc.org/stories/what-keystone-pipeline
Fox News mentioned the Keystone Pipeline 141 times in one week during the network’s coverage of the War in Ukraine
www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-news-mentioned-keystone-pipeline-141-times-one-week-during-networks-coverage-war
Yet Keystone would have no impact on current energy prices
Special PROGRAMS
CLIMATE & ENERGY
WRITTEN BY TED MACDONALD
PUBLISHED 03/01/22 3:58 PM EST
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