Repost from the Daily Democrat, Davis CA [Editor: Original materials: see the Abstract of the study or the 19 pages of Supporting Information. – RS] Canada oil sands have more emissions than those in US By Kat Kerlin, UC Davis News Service, 06/25/15, 3:20 PM PDT Gasoline and diesel fuel extracted and refined from Canadian oil sands will release about … Continue reading Canada oil sands: dirtier than conventional domestic crude
Repost from The Fairfield Daily Republic [Editor: Download the 152-page Update from the STA website. Although this article doesn’t mention it, significant attention is paid to crude by rail in the Update: see p. 8 on the Benicia-Martinez Railroad Bridge, p. 15 on the Valero Refinery, pp. 27-29 on Future Demand (including crude-by-rail), pp. 91-93 on Potential Projects, … Continue reading Solano County study addresses rail plans, including crude-by-rail
Repost from Western City Magazine A Growing Risk: Oil Trains Raise Safety and Environmental Concerns By Cory Golden, in the February 2015 issue of Western City More and more often, trains snake down through California from its northern borders, with locomotives leading long lines of tank cars brimming with volatile crude oil. Rail remains among the … Continue reading Western Cities Magazine: A Growing Risk – Oil Trains Raise Safety and Environmental Concerns
Repost from DESMOGBLOG Tar Sands on the Tracks: Railbit, Dilbit and U.S. Export Terminals 2014-06-17 | Ben Jervey Last December, the first full train carrying tar sands crude left the Canexus Bruderheim terminal outside of Edmonton, Alberta, bound for an unloading terminal somewhere in the United States. Canadian heavy crude, as the tar sands is labeled … Continue reading Tar Sands on the Tracks: Railbit, Dilbit and U.S. Export Terminals