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U.S. study warns of risks and unknowns in shipment of Alberta oilsands products
January 27, 2014
VANCOUVER - U.S. scientists are warning that there are environmental risks, regulatory holes and serious unknowns regarding the shipment of Alberta oilsands products by pipeline, rail and tanker.
The findings are in a 153-page report from last September by the emergency response division of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The unit has expertise in preparing for, evaluating and responding to oil and chemical spills in coastal environments.
Enbridge (TSX:ENB), the company behind the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline to the British Columbia coast, counters that most of the concerns raised in the report are out-of-date, overstated or being resolved.
The study examined the different ways to transport Alberta's bitumen, a molasses-like crude oil, over U.S. land and water. Those included rail, the proposed Kinder-Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline to Vancouver, the Keystone XL line to Texas from Alberta, and Northern Gateway.
China's exports linked to western U.S. air pollution
January 21, 2014
(CNN) -- Pollution doesn't respect national borders.
Outsourcing manufacturing to China may have resulted in less pollution in some parts of the United States, but other regions have lesser air quality because of U.S.-bound Chinese products, a new study in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds.
"Pollution from China is having an effect in the U.S., and we need to recognize how that is affecting both our background ozone levels and also particulates that are reaching the West Coast," said study co-author Don Wuebbles, professor of atmospheric science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Monsanto critics denied U.S. Supreme Court hearing on seed patents
January 14, 2014
(Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld Monsanto Co's biotech seed patents on Monday, dealing a blow to a group of organic farmers and other activists trying to stop the biotech company from suing farmers if their fields contain a few plants containing the company's genetically modified traits.
The Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association and a group of dozens of organic and conventional family farmers, seed companies and public advocacy interests sued Monsanto in March 2011. The suit sought to prohibit the company from suing farmers whose fields became inadvertently contaminated with corn, soybeans, cotton, canola and other crops containing Monsanto's genetic modifications.
Firefighters battle large HAZMAT fire after Livonia industrial building engulfed by flames
January 15, 2014
LIVONIA (WXYZ) - The Livonia Fire Department confirms they are on the scene of a large HAZMAT fire
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An industrial building on the 12000 block of Sears is engulfed in flames. It's located near Merriman and Plymouth Roads.
Multiple explosions can be heard in succession at the scene of ERG Environmental.
EPA: Enbridge missed dredging deadline
January 9, 2014
COMSTOCK TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) - As expected, Enbridge has failed to meet an end-of-year deadline to complete dredging operations to clean up oil contamination in Kalamazoo County, a federal agency says.
COMSTOCK TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) - As expected, Enbridge has failed to meet an end-of-year deadline to complete dredging operations to clean up oil contamination in Kalamazoo County, a federal agency says.
When an Enbridge pipeline broke in summer 2010, it spilled more than 800,000 gallons of oil in to the Kalamazoo River and its tributaries. Since then, the Calgary, Alberta-based company has been working to clean up the mess.
In a statement, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said that Enbridge finished operations at two of the three areas it was ordered to dredge by Dec. 31, 2013. But it didn't finish everything.