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Transcript of Crude Oil Transport on the Hudson- Riverkeeper & Scenic Hudson
Paul Gallay Audrey FriedrichsenPresident and Hudson Riverkeeper Land Use and Environmental Advocacy Attorney
Crude Oil Transport on the HudsonPhoto:Moses Fridlich/ Bear Mountain Bridge
Be social!
Protects the Hudson River watershed and safeguards the drinking water of 9 million New Yorkers.
Crude oils are not created equal
Photo: Ben Garvin Photo: DOI
Shale Crude 20-25% Heavy Crude 0-5%
Photo : Michael Neil O'Donnell
~2 Daily
3M Gallons
Weekly
8.4M Gallons
~1 Daily
4M Gallons
Fracked Shale Oil Moves By Rail to Albany from the Bakken Oil Shale Formation
Photo: New York TimesSources: Energy Information Administration, BNSF, Canadian Pacific, CSXGraphics By Guilbert Gates and Joe Burgess
4000% Increase in crude by rail transport from 2009 to 2013. Current market has reduced flow but markets fluctuate.
DEC turned Albany into a crude hub overnight in 2012.
2.8b Gallons
Photo: Mike Groll/ AP Photo
DEC Complete App
2015 Global
Sues over heavy
crude
2015- Notice
of Intent to
Sue Global
over
throughput
Photo: 2013 Sûreté du Québec
Lac-Mégantic, QuebecJuly, 2013
$1b+
Innocent Lives Lost
47 Fish Deformiti
es2016 Quebec Gov’t Report
Photo: Chad Gomes / Riverkeeper
“Federal regulators have told us to expect at least 10 major derailments of crude oil trains a year” — Kate Hudson, Riverkeeper, Director of Special Projects
Puncture Prone: 1991 NTSB Report
82% are unsafeComprehensive spill response plans are not required by law for crude by rail.
Aliceville,
Alabama
November, 2013
Galena, IL (March, 2015)
Mt. Carbon, WV (February, 2015)
Timmins, Ontario (February, 2015)
Gogama, Ontario (March, 2015)
CRUDE BY RAIL: CONCERNS
Transit• Speed Limits• Routes (habitat,
cities, water)• Derailments• Notification• Response Assets• Response Access• Infrastructure
Loading• Labeling• Classification• Stabilization• Tank Car Design
(common carrier)• Small Spills• Cumulative Issues
(production, gathering)
Off-Loading• Air Quality• Oil Spills• Throughput Fees• Cumulative Issues
(refineries, ports)• Security Risks• Community
Access (idle trains)
A derailment could force the evacuation of communities in Putnam
Photo: Leah Rae
A Bakken oil train explosion and fire in North Dakota in 2013
required an evacuation in a 5-mile radius.
Toxic smoke from a similar oil
train derailment and explosion in Orange County, carried west to east on the Hudson’s prevailing
winds, could force evacuation of communities in Putnam County.
In 2014 Riverkeeper’s Boat Captain Uncovered Deteriorating Rail Bridges Along the Hudson.
Afterwards, citizen inspections went nationwide.
VideoBit.ly/19Mja54
250 Bridges Inspected
Nationwide
Weak Federal
Oversight
46%deficiencies
Photo: Casselton, North Dakota EcoWatch, 2013
STATE & FEDERAL ACTIONMay 2015 PHMSA Regulations and Congressional FAST 2016• FAST ACT Codifies Tank Car Design & Phase-Outs (loopholes could leave cars on the rails)
• Routing/Notification • Speed Limits imposed for High Threat Urban Areas (40mph cap)• Rail Bridge Transparency Improved yet Insufficient
State Actions• Ports & Rail Yards(Caps, Permit Reviews, Expansion Bans)• Inspection Blitzes• Throughput Fees• Spill response fund increase ($25 to $40 million)
Federal Actions• Regulations: Securement of Oil Trains• Proposed Regulations: Crew Size (currently only 1), Response Planning (Coast Guard, EPA)• Emergency Orders: Notification (state fusion centers, Speed Limits)• Coast Guard Updating Response Plans and Assets
STATE & FEDERAL INACTION• Lessons learned are being ignored (NTSB Reports)State Inaction
• Insurance/Assurance – NYS Senate Action Needed• Port & Rail Yard Expansion (Pre-2013)
Federal Inaction• Length/Weight Limits for trains (no answer to our petition)• OPA90 Liability Limits still less than $1 Billion• Programmatic EIS• Spill Response Technology – old & outdated (response ≠ capture) • Crude Oil Characterization
Interim Success: Upper Estuary Live Preparedness Drill Forthcoming in 2016
Updated Area Contingency
Plans are coming!
“A spill may also seriously damage Hudson Valley tourism, as well as place a substantial burden on communities that draw drinking water from the Hudson River.” –Paul Kirby, The Daily Freeman
75,000Poughkeepsie
12,288Hyde Park
5,300Rhinebeck
5,000Highland
4,500Port Ewen
Photo: The Advocate…the first tanker laden with Bakken crude—carrying as much oil as was spilled by the Exxon Valdez—ran aground and ruptured its outer hull six miles south of Albany…
– Riverkeeper Letter to Poughkeepsie, Rhinebeck, Hyde Park, Highland, & Port Ewen
December, 2012
12m Gallons
Stena Primorsk Galveston Bay, March 2014
Barge-on-ship
168,000 Gallons
Mississippi River
Feb 2014
Barge-on-Barge34,000
Gallons/96 recovered
ProposedPilgrim Pipelines
8.4mGallons
day
~600 Acres 79%
ROW
Crude Oil
Refined
GasolineKeroseneHeating
oil
Crosses Hudson River
2x+ over 232waterways
31 Municipalities
6 Counties
Drinking Water
MillionsNY/NJ
Huge Impacts of Pilgrim’s Dual Pipeline Construction and Operation.
168 Properties at risk
of Eminent Domain
~27State & Fed listed
endangered species
FarmsDozens of
working farms at risk
5Lateral Pipes
(Global Newburgh Lateral ~4.5 miles
long)
296Wetland
Crossings
100Foot gash down
the HV.
Huge Impacts of Pilgrim’s Dual Pipeline Construction and Operation, continued
3 State Parks
Catskill, Harriman, Sterling Forest
Spill Costs
Rate can reach 357k gal. per hour and cost
billions
RunoffStormwater
impacts During Construction &
Operation
Property Values
Pipelines negatively impact values and increase insurance
premiums
35Permanent
Access roads at 1 mile intervals
4 Pumping Stations
Photo Andre J. Jackson/ MCT; Data, PHMSA
A pipeline spill of more than 800,000 gallons of heavy crude affected 35 miles of the Kalamazoo River in Michigan, and hasn't been fully remediated four years later, despite a cleanup effort that has cost more than $1.21 billion.
865,200Gallons Spilled
Tioga, NDSeptember, 2013
120,000Gallons Spilled
Santa BarbaraMay, 2015
4mGallons Spilled
Yearly(National Average, Source: PHMSA)
Photo: USEPA Onsite Coordinator for Mayflower, Arkansas Tar Sands Pipeline Spill.
Pick Your Poison. Pipelines are not the safer alternative as industry claims.
2004-2012Pipelines Spilled
3X as much as oil
trains(Source:
International Energy Agency)
2003-2013
1,880 crude oil pipeline incidents
(~1 every 2 days)
44m gallons spilled $2.5b+ in property damage. (PHMSA)
New pipelines are failing at a higher
rate than the oldest pipelines
(1940s and earlier). Source: SNL Financial
Moscow's Moskva River Bursts into Flames after Buried Underwater Oil Pipeline Bursts. August, 2015.
Communities Stand Up to Pilgrim from Albany to Linden. Significant actions on the pipeline.
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60+ Local Governments Formally Oppose 22 NY and 38 NJ municipalities have passed resolutions formally opposing the project.
5 Groups Ask Thruway, DEC to Suspend Review Riverkeeper , Scenic Hudson and partners are urging DEC, Thruway to suspend review to prevent a waste of agency time, resources and taxpayer money based on a century old NY “TransCorp Law” that gives villages and cities a “yes” or “no” vote over the controversial oil pipelines. 5/9 Cities and Villages with veto power have already passed formal opposition resolutions.
Coalition Against Pilgrim Pipelines NY/NJ is a grassroots organization comprised of homeowners, farmers, environmentalists and concerned citizens are educating their local communities, gathering petitions and advocating to local elected officials.
“The transport of crude oil on and along the Hudson River presents a grave threat—the most significant new threat we’ve faced in a generation." – Paul Gallay, Hudson Riverkeeper and President
$4.7B
Tourism40
Significant habitats
100k
HudsonValleyResidents
Drinking Water
Strategies for Increasing Safety
Tar Sands on Hold. After Riverkeeper and Scenic Hudson submitted formal comments In May 2015, DEC issues a Notice of Intent to Rescind its November 2013 decision not to require an environmental review of Global’s oil heating permit request. Global has sued the DEC over this, Riverkeeper has motioned to intervene. Decision from the judge is pending.
Roll Back 2012 Permits. Riverkeeper , Scenic Hudson and partners are challenging the 2012 permit of Global’s Albany facility arguing that the permit to quadruple throughput violates the Clean Air Act.
Legal Watchdogs of Pilgrim Pipelines. Riverkeeper, Scenic Hudson and partners are carefully watching the environmental review process of the proposed project.
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Strategies for Increasing Safety
Cover Your Crude Requiring those storing, transferring and transporting petroleum products have adequate insurance to cover the cost of a potential disaster will incentivize safer transport. Passed Financial Assurance Legislation 135/6 in the Assembly 3/29/2016.
Rail Bridge Transparency. Railroads are now subject to requests from local officials about information regarding the safety and inspection history of individual rail bridges as part of the recent highway bill known as the “FAST ACT”.
Response and Preparedness. Scenic Hudson, Riverkeeper and our partners have successfully increased the spill response fund from $25 to $40 million. We are working collaboratively with the Coast Guard to stage a live drill, increase unannounced inspections of crude facilities and update response plans for the upper estuary.
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3 Citizen Actions Ask your State Senator to cosponsor financial assurance legislation!
Call Cuomo and say, “no to Pilgrim’s use of Thruway’s Right of Way” 518-474-8390
Urge your municipality and county to oppose Pilgrim pipelines through a formal resolution.
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Visit Riverkeeper.org/crude or http://www.scenichudson.org/ourwork/environmentaladvocacy/crudeoil to learn more and take action.
Paul [email protected]
Audrey [email protected]
See our Action Table to sign letters to your Senators, take call-in scripts and model resolutions.