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Corrosive Publicity

Posted March 17, 2011 7:00 AM

A recent study by the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) claims that tar sands crude is vastly more dangerous to transport than normal crude. They claim that DilBit (diluted bitumen) is more corrosive, acidic, and unstable, unreasonably raising the risks of transporting it through conventional pipelines. Alberta's Energy Resources Conservation Board denounced the study, claiming that there have been only three corrosion-related spills between 1990 and 2005. Is there a truth buried beneath the conflicting data? Will transporting tar sands crude turn out to be more dangerous than mining it?

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03/17/2011 10:39 PM

It's just one person's opinion, but I consider the NRDC to have no stinking credibility whatsoever. Nor did I wish to be assaulted by a 6.8-MB .pdf download.

It might admittedly be conceivable that diluted bitumen would be somewhat (or even significantly) more corrosive than "normal" crude. But "vastly"? Of course, much of their audience can be taken for fools, but not everyone.

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03/18/2011 2:48 AM

This is the usual sloppy blog entry

the main points of concern remain hidden

I took a quick look

I would have posted a excerpt, but the PDF is resisting my efforts :D

DilBit needs higher temperatures & pressure to be transported.

NRDC is trying to make the case for the regulations to reflect that

the oil industry would prefer to keep costs down

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04/08/2011 2:34 PM

Still it would be okay for making asphalt.ds

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