With the President?s recent release of his Climate Action Plan, and his comments on the approval of the Keystone XL pipeline, Consumer Energy Alliance believes its appropriate to examine the emissions associated with the transportation of crude oil.
Its not just the refining and consumption of petroleum products that releases GHG?s.?The transportation of oil from one country to another also carries a GHG footprint, as fuel is consumed by oil tankers, trains, trucks and pipelines as they move oil from where it is produced, to where its refined and consumed.
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Since the President has pinned the fate of Keystone on its perceived contribution to climate change, it bears discussion about the GHG profile of oil from various oil producing nations across the globe. According to?Department of Energy studies,?transporting oil from the Persian Gulf region by oceangoing tanker is significantly more GHG intensive than transporting it from Canada via pipeline.?Not only does it take less energy to transport oil via pipeline, but the proximity of Canada to the U.S. helps reduce overall GHG emissions associated with transportation.
The overall GHG profile of the Keystone pipeline is neutral, as found by the State Department in its environmental report. NOT building the pipeline would help increase GHG emissions as the U.S. would need to continue oil imports from countries with higher GHG profiles than Canada.
Source: http://fuelfix.com/blog/2013/07/09/climate-plan-prompts-look-at-energy-transportation-emissions/
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