Cost / Benefit Analysis

Macro cost/benefit analysis #2 The peoposed Keystone X1. Project would oonsist of 1,00-mile cruds oil pipeline and relnted xciliies that would he used Iargely to trarispont Western Canadian Sedimentary Rasin crude oil om an ail supply ub in Alherta, Canada ta delivey puints in Olahoma and Teaas. The prnject would also bs capable af rausporting U.S. crude lrom places like North Dakola and Montana to those delivery paints. T he projecl could aanapet up t 830.000 barrcls per day and is esrimatod to oost S7 billion. Across Aioric a dehate has been joined, should we allow the huilding of the Keystone nipeline" Cantilly read the intonrsion below, and then da mraulings with the dam Make twn cohimns one lur enss and th* ollier lor benefits)and place each poce of infonnaliolia the correct coluau 2) Pri rinre each list, lium most important lo lesst impartanr, (3) wrile athree-paragr h analysis. Pangrnplis one and t o should expan Iwo casts and top two beinets are the masr imporant. Finally, parag aph three is your anatysis, bssed un ynur intempretativa uf all the facts listed beluw, eplan whether you believe we should build he Keyatonc pipetine ur pat (chis Inst parngraph must he at least 6-8 linsng The paper shuald be typer and no mure than one page in leagth. Many l abor Unions are in favor of building the pipeline. Estimates vary, hut construction should lcad tu the creation of 5,000 jobs. 2. Pollutioni ron tar sands oil greally eclipses that of eonvenionil oil.Dg lar sunds oil preduction alme, levels of earthun dioxide omissions are three times higher tham thosc of canvemicomal oil, due o miare energy-inlsive extraction d fining prucessca. 3. Tsc Keystane pipeline will alsi carry stranded crule oil from North Dak and Montana lo major 1. Pipelines remain the salest method of ransporting oil-safer tlhan tankers, trucks r il. ach day American refneries, sw it no longer must he trinsported by Iruck or rail. in the L.S., more than 200,DKI miles of pipelines innve oil and other eriergy products safely to wbere they are nerded s. The thrent of oil spils exists:In summmer 2110, a million gallns of tar sands oil poured into the Kalamaroo River ia Michigan from a pipeline rum by another Canaclian c spill expased residents to toxic chemicals, coaled wildlife and has caused long-tem damage to the local econormy and ecosystem. company, Enbridge, Thc 6. In the USA and Canada, pipcline cuinpnies are respousible lr nll oil clcanus costs. So, the pipeline will use the most advanced lechnalogry and be ned 24 hous a day through a centralized contiul centre. 16,000 sensors emhedded in the pipeline provide data via satellite e five seconds. If the slightest drop in pipeline pressure is detectod, remole valves are automatically closed, shutting al the flow of oil within minutes. cocry 7. When finished, it wll run for I,71I miles and cros nearly 2.00D rivers and wctlands. Spills in 8. Environenialits are concerued hat hurilding the pipelirne will allow us to cnne our depcndence 9. A us.nergy Department sludy in 2009. concluded that onstruction of the pipeline would he 0, During the tar sands oil extraction grucess, it takcs three barels of water to extract each single those eivironmentally sensitive are could be very damnging vno, rather than xking for clcaer a lernatives. helpful t repince the doclining imports of hcavy crule from Venczuela and Mexico. brrel of oil. At this rate, cor sands operatinns use roughly 41X million gallons of water a day Ninety percent of this plted ter is dumped into large human-inade pools, know as lailing ponds, after it's uscd. These ponds are home to Loxic sludgc, full ofhaful substances like cynnide and anmanis, which has warked its way into neighhoring clean water supplies. (All of these ponds would be localed in Canada. . If the Keystone pipeline is not built through lhe US, Canada will build a pipeline to Vancouver and sell the tar sand oil lo Chin u vin super tanker. 12. It is now estimated that Canada has the world's third largesi wil reserves, only aer Saudi rabia Su, Canada's encrgy role anl the United States' interests in thosc tar sands could be and the U.S. an important puhlic palicy issuc for the nalion