arctic policy affecting air quality...air pollution • air pollution impacts on the north slope are...
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Arctic Policy affecting Air
Quality
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TAPS
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Pipelines, roads, drill rig at North Slope oil fields
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Air Pollution
• Air pollution impacts on the North Slope are serious • Health effects: Asthma
– “In addition to stress contributing to adverse health effects, oil development has increased the smog and haze near some villages, which residents believe is causing an increase in asthma.” (National Research Council 2003)
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Clean Air?
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“A significant oil spill (84,000 gallons) into Beaver Creek in summer would travel 148 miles to the Yukon River in 49 hours, contaminating soils and vegetation along the way.” (p. 4-33)
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Major Offshore Oil and Gas Plans for the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas
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SUBSISTENCE: A WAY OF LIFE
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Marine Mammals at threat
•Seals
•Polar Bears
•Walrus
•Whales
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Oil spills have wreaked havoc on the oceans for several decades, and are primarily caused by accidents involving tankers, barges, pipelines, refineries, and
storage facilities, usually during transport. Spills are also caused by making mistakes, equipment breaking down, natural disasters, such as hurricanes, terrorist
acts, or illegal dumpers.
How Much Oil Are We Talking About?
The United States uses about 700 million gallons of oil every day.
The world uses nearly 3 billion gallons each day.
The largest spill in the United States so far was the Exxon Valdez spill on March 24, 1989 off the coast of Alaska. It was 11 million gallons of crude oil.
RISK: Oil Spills
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Oil is still being found on the beaches of Prince William Sound today.
Of the 25 species that were devastated by the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, only 8 are considered fully recovered.
The herring fishery has never recovered.
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Photo: Riki Ott
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Sakhalin Island Offshore Oil and Gas Operations
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A Clean Operation? • EPA has launched a criminal investigation into BP's management of the
pipeline corrosion blamed for the spill of an estimated 267,000 gallons of crude oil in the western part of the largest US oil field.
• Alaska officials blamed internal corrosion for creating a hole that sprung the oil leak in late February of 2006 and crude poured out for several days before being discovered.
• The resulting crude oil spill, the largest ever recorded on Alaska's North Slope, spread over nearly two acres of snow-covered tundra and frozen lake surface
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In 2001, Daniel Carson Lewis shot a gun into the 800 mile Trans Alaska Oil Pipeline.
250,000 Gallons of Oil Spilled out of the gunshot hole.
In 2006 after an oil spill from a transit pipe in Prudhoe Bay, BP discovered 16 of 22 miles of transit pipes were corroded.
Some of the pipes had corroded as much as 80 percent.
RISK: Pipelines Pose a Risk to the Environment
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• Bullet Hole Spill took 36 hours to plug leak
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Just Transition is a way of getting both a
healthy Economy as well as a safe & clean
Environment.
“Just Transition”?
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