Climate Change Is Affecting The Great Lakes

As you can see in the title, Fort Buchanan has aging water pipes that are also rusty. This is a huge issue because this will force Fort Buchanan to run the water pipes at a lower water pressure even if they need it to be at a higher water pressure. They need to keep it at a lower water pressure because if the pressure is way too high, the water pipes would burst. This is also bad because this does not allow the water to reach certain places if the water pressure is too low. Another reason why this is bad is because the water can get infected and that can get people sick. In the very near future, Fort Buchanan can have a very big problem in their hands.

The North Dakota Pipeline will be placed under Lake Oahe and if the pipeline spills it could harm Standing Rocks water supply.

Croix River watershed territory. The oil pipelines carry over 1 million barrels per day of oil from Superior, WI to Pontiac, IL. Recently, Enbridge (a major oil corporation) has unofficially announced plans to install one more pipeline across the Wisconsin corridor due to the Obama administration’s—along with the Supreme court of Canada—denial of a potential pipeline across the Keystone corridor from Canada to the United States. Now, Enbridge is left with only one route to accomplish their goal, and the new pipeline would accomplish it. At this point SCRA does not have a position on expansion of Enbridge’s system through the watershed. However, the potential risks to land, water and wildlife associated with expansion as well as continued operation of 60-year-old lines is a matter of critical

From Canada down to Texas is an awful large amount of ground for a pipe to cover, but, organizations such as TransCanada insist that there is a wealth of benefits to be had with the construction of the pipeline, both during and after construction.

The next major environmental issue of the pipeline is the indigenous populations. “Northern Alberta’s, where the tar sands oil comes from, people are coming under attack because of their operation of the tar sands in their livelihoods and cultural traditions.”5 Other people affected by this project are the people who live in communities downstream from the tailing ponds, “they have seen spikes in rates of rare cancers, renal failure, lupus, and hyperthyroidism.” “In the lakeside village of Fort Chipewyan, for example, one hundred of the town’s one thousand-two hundred residents have died from cancer.”5 So not only will this pipeline affect the people living around it but it will also affect the people working on it and living around the tailing ponds, wherever those may be located. With it traversing six U.S. states that means a lot of people could get sick and even die from a project that has so many issues with it before it’s even began to be used for its intended purpose.

The main issues are the risk of oil spills along the pipeline, which would traverse highly sensitive terrain, and 17% higher greenhouse gas emissions from the extraction of oil sands compared to extraction of conventional oil. The potential for oil spills could pollute air and critical water supplies and harm migratory birds and other wildlife. The Ogallala Aquifer spans eight states, providing drinking water for two million people and supports $20 billion in agriculture. Critics say a major leak could ruin drinking water and devastate mid-western US economy. Pipeline industry spokesman have noted that thousands of miles of existing pipelines carrying crude oil have crossed the Ogallala Aquifer for years in Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. Portions of the pipeline would cross an active seismic zone that had a 4.3 magnitude earthquake in 2002. TransCanada CEO described the Keystone Pipeline as “routine”, noting they have been building similar pipelines in North America for half a century the that there are 200,000 miles of similar oil pipelines in the US today. The Keystone Pipeline will include 57 improvements above standard requirements demanded by US regulations, making it the “safest pipeline ever

The environmental consequences, of drilling and other related to the activities of this new pipeline not to mention the nature that is being destroyed. Not to mention the protected forests and other sorts of landmarks that this pipeline will damage.

Recently, the environment issues are becoming more and more serious. The increasing of greenhouse gas emission and pollutions lead to many environment problems related to climate change. The climate change impact our urban life in many aspects. As the biggest metropolitan area in US, New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA Metropolitan Statistical Area has a population about 19,831,858 by year 2012 (U.S. Department of Commerce, US Census Bureau, 2012) The population has been increased by 1.35% since 2010. The increase of population again increase the consuming of resources and increase the carbon dioxide of the statistical area which aggravate the global warming. At this moment, planners and government should take the impacts from climate change that will be critical concern to our area into consideration and applying a climate change management planning policies.

Considering the potential negative effects this pipeline would have on the environment if a leak

Some stakeholders in the Northern Gateway Project would counter with defending the Enbridge as they plan on using thicker pipe and horizontal drilling to bore beneath 30 rivers, instead of passing through them. Though they are changing their pipe sizes and thickness, this new material is being used for the first time and could potentially become a disaster if the pipe breaks and leaves over the ocean, rivers and/or environments. (5)

Climate change is affecting oceans tremendously. Threats faced by the ocean planet seem uncontrollable. In the face of overfishing, pollution, and climate change it may seem like a drop in the bucket. With the amount of light reaching onto the shore, plants should be reduced in order for the rising sea levels to fall. Oceans have also absorbed tons of carbon dioxide from the earth’s atmosphere causing ocean acidification. Coral bleaching is caused by high water temperatures leading to coral death, and can turn into a negative impact on the entire coral ecosystem. We intend to provide options a single person can take in order to help the cause and make a difference. Our mission is to conserve the Earth’s living heritage, our global

ASCE gave U.S drinking water, inland waterways, levees, roads and wastewater infrastructures. The report they generated estimated that leaking pipes lose seven billion gallons of clean drinking water a day

In the 1990s contamination became a large problem with groundwater in the Ogallala aquifer. There are many people who look past the case of the Keystone XL pipeline because some believe that if there was a failure in building the pipeline or a leakage that the oil would contaminate the soil, groundwater, crops, and destroy our economy. “The Canadian company that owns the Keystone, has repeatedly said the XL will be “the safest pipeline ever built on U.S. soil”. What people may not already realize is that there is a large amount of thousands of miles of pipelines that carry crude oil and many refined liquids, that crosses the U.S. and even the Ogallala

Climate projections for Wisconsin indicate that increasing temperatures and shifting precipitation patterns will affect both the quantity and quality of the state’s water resources. The changes will have major impacts on the Mississippi River, Lake Michigan and Lake Superior, 5.3 million acres of wetlands, 15,000 inland lakes, and 84,000 miles of streams. Due to differences in land use, soil type, groundwater characteristics, and runoff and seepage, hydrological responses will vary among geographic regions. Continuing population and socioeconomic shifts, combined with heat waves, heavy rains, and drought are expected to intensify the effects on aging infrastructure, health, agriculture, forestry, transportation, and air and water quality. This

A few proposed approaches to global warming that Lomborg believes are problematic revolve around to the extent we believe global warming is impacting us. According to Lomborg the longterm effects of global warming will be mostly negative however we are facing many more pressing issues rather than expending resources on the more minor effects of global warming. Lomborg finds an issue with the way environmentalists are pushing this global warming fear by using both data and statistics to show that the global environment was improving and that temperatures have been higher in the distant pasts all these claims that we are hurting our planet by causing things such as rising sea levels and threating extinction to polar bears are misrepresenting