Arkansas Oil Spill on Good Friday 2013
Ironically, 2 days after we do a lab about cleaning up oil spills, look at what happened. On the Friday we got out of school for spring break, the Pegasus pipeline that moves 90,000 barrels of crude Canadian tar sands oil from Illinois to Texas developed a leak near Mayflower, Arkansas. The pipeline, which is used by ExxonMobil, was carrying "unconventional" oil (tar sands) and therefore means that technically Exxon is not responsible for paying cleanup. They would only be required if it was conventional oil!!!! Read the article that I attached to the button below for further explanation...On the positive side, this could be a major blow to the Keystone XL extension...
http://www.treehugger.com/energy-disasters/oil-spill-arkansas-exxon-pipeline-breaks-spilling-84000-gallons-dangerously-close-lake-conway.html
http://www.treehugger.com/energy-disasters/oil-spill-arkansas-exxon-pipeline-breaks-spilling-84000-gallons-dangerously-close-lake-conway.html
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Various Goodies:
-The recent 30,000 gallon oil spill in Minnesota from a train derailment:
http://www.treehugger.com/energy-disasters/train-derails-spilling-30000-gallons-canadian-oil.html
-The relationship between Australia's coal mining addiction & destruction of the Great Barrier Reef:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/03/23/174427265/coal-and-coral-australias-self-destructive-paradox?sc=17&f=1007
-Check out all the cool Google Earth Environmental Layovers:
http://www.google.com/gadgets/directory?synd=earth&hl=en&preview=on&cat=science_environment
-The recent 30,000 gallon oil spill in Minnesota from a train derailment:
http://www.treehugger.com/energy-disasters/train-derails-spilling-30000-gallons-canadian-oil.html
-The relationship between Australia's coal mining addiction & destruction of the Great Barrier Reef:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/03/23/174427265/coal-and-coral-australias-self-destructive-paradox?sc=17&f=1007
-Check out all the cool Google Earth Environmental Layovers:
http://www.google.com/gadgets/directory?synd=earth&hl=en&preview=on&cat=science_environment
Pictures from Wastewater Treatment Lab....
Group #2 Wins!!
TED Talk w/ Elon Musk
Random Is Good...
Piper the Atlanta Beltline Eastside Trail Cat...
New Zealand Pics:
My dad emailed me some pictures that he has taken in New Zealand and I took some of them and photoshopped them to death....Some of them turned out pretty cool looking