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On July 2, 2014 workers with heavy equipment use a thermal desorption process in what was formerly Steven Jensen's wheat field near Tioga, North Dakota. A Tesoro Logistics LP pipeline spilled more than 20,000 barrels of crude oil into the field in September of 2013. The six-inch pipeline was carrying crude oil from the Bakken shale play to the Stampede rail facility outside Columbus, North Dakota. Thermal desorption involves excavating soil or other contaminated material for treatment in a thermal desorber. To prepare the soil for treatment, large rocks or debris first must be removed or crushed. The smaller particle size allows heat to more easily and evenly separate contaminants from the solid material. The prepared soil is placed in the thermal desorber to be heated. Low-temperature thermal desorption is used to heat the solid material to 200-600ºF to treat VOCs. If SVOCs are present, then high-temperature thermal desorption is used to heat the soil to 600-1000ºF.
Gas collection equipment captures the contaminated vapors. Vapors often require further treatment, such as removing dust particles. The remaining organic vapors are usually destroyed using a thermal oxidizer, which heats the vapors to temperatures high enough to convert them to carbon dioxide and water vapor. At some sites with high concentrations of organic vapors, the vapors may be cooled and condensed to change them back to a liquid form. The liquid chemicals may be recycled for reuse, or treated by incineration. If the concentrations of contaminants are low enough, and dust is not a problem, the vapors may be released without treatment to the atmosphere. Often, treated soil can be used to fill in the excavation at the site. If the treated soil contains contaminants that do not evaporate, such as most metals, they may be disposed of and capped onsite, or transported offsite to an appropriate landfill. Photo by Les Stone
Kirsty Jenkinson of the United Methodist Board of Pensions and Health Benefits, provides information on the board's fossil fuel investments to delegates at the May 20 plenary session of the denomination's 2016 General Conference in Portland, Ore. Photo by Maile Bradfield, UMNS.
Eduardo Perez, left, a doctoral student from West Virginia University, and Don Ferguson, a researcher in the Office of Research and Development at the Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory, use simplified combustion geometries such as the one pictured in order to control and separate the influences of different physical mechanisms that cause combustion instabilities. The goal of this research in NETL’s Energy System Dynamics Division is to improve modeling capabilities of combustion dynamics and provide better understanding of how fuel composition influences dynamic response in pre-mixed gas turbine combustion systems. The flame they are observing is imaged on the computer monitor behind them.
CSX workers with heavy equipment attempt to contain and clean up the wreckage of a train carrying 8,000 tons of coal that derailed early on May 1, 2014 in Bowie, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C. This aerial image shows the clean up on May 2, 2014. Three locomotives and 10 cars left the tracks according to the local fire department. This derailment came a day after another CSX train carrying crude oil derailed in Lynchburg, Virginia. Photo by Greenpeace
Pre-press photo opportunity by activists announcing escalation of mobilisations in 2016 against fossil fuel assets and infrastructure and the people who fund these projects.
On a rainy day, Greenpeace activists hand out "secret message" coffee mugs to Amazon employees outside their offices in Seattle, Washington on September 25, 2014. They were encouraging the company to use its innovation to power the Internet with renewable energy. Photo by Marcus Donner/Greenpeace
Camp Frack mobilised over 100 climate activists and local residents against plans by Cuadrilla Resources to drill for shale gas in Lancashire, UK.
"Camp Frack", named after "fracking", the process of pumping vast quantities of water underground and fracturing rocks with chemicals to release shale gas, set up outside the Lancashire village of Banks, close to a drilling rig that Cuadrilla Resources is using to drill up to 3.5km deep.
Environmentalists have argued that the "fracking" process is inherently risky. In the US, where shale gas is being hailed by industry as a potential substitute for oil, fears have been raised about the effect of the chemicals used, explosions, links with seismic activity and allegations of illness. A Cornell University study also concluded that greenhouse gas emissions from shale gas are higher than those for coal.
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The Rev. Denise Honeycutt, Virginia Conference, speaks in favor of divestment from fossil fuel companies during the May 20 plenary session of the 2016 United Methodist General Conference in Portland, Ore. Photo by Maile Bradfield, UMNS.
Mickey Leland inten Maria Abreu-Sepulveda with mentor David Tucker in the HYPER Facility at NETL in Morgantown, WV.
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We marched to BP Refinery strongly for Nayaano-nibiimaang Gichigamiin: The Great Lakes (The Five Freshwater Seas)
These tar sands poses catastrophic health risks to our Mother Earth, people and our wild rice water sheds and homelands as well as our sacred Anishinaabewi-gichigami: Lake Superior (Anishinaabe’s Sea)
We marched and sang along for:
Ininwewi-gichigami: Lake Michigan (Illinois’ Sea) where BP Refinery with their fracked Bakken tanks have invaded with their toxicity greed putting our sacred Gichigamiin at risk for pollution. Our 7th Generations will depend on this water, and clean air to survive. It's our duty to save our children's future. A path we must choose...for our survival.
Our message is clear, "You can't drink oil, no water no life." #LoveWaterNotOil HonorEarth.org
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Miigwech
'Rezolution' (feat. Brendan Strong)
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Scientists and engineers utilize NETL’s state-of the-art Mechanical Testing Laboratory to determine the mechanical behavior and performance of materials. Our researchers test a material’s ability to withstand cyclical mechanical loads for a large number of cycles and resulting crack growth behavior of materials at temperatures up to 1200 °C. They also study the ability of materials to withstand mechanical loads for long periods of time up to 1100 °C. This Lab also has capabilities to test a material’s compressive and tensile strength—the resistance to breaking under tension—from room temperature to 1200 °C, as well as impact testing and hot-hardness testing.
Greenpeace activists David Lopez, city coordinator in Seattle, left, and canvaser Chris Dobish hand out "secret message" coffee mugs to an Amazon AWS employee outside their offices in Seattle, Washington on September 25, 2014. They were encouraging the company to use its innovation to power the Internet with renewable energy. Photo by Marcus Donner/Greenpeace
Vancouver resident Nancy McLean, left, and Rex Weyler, second from right , along with Bobby Stowe, right, and his sister Barbara Stowe, join indigenous activists, senior citizens and other activists to block the gates to Kinder Morgan’s construction site on Burnaby Mountain in British Columbia. In solidarity with Coast Salish communities, they aim to show the world that Canada is going down the wrong path on climate and on reconciliation with Indigenous Nations in building this pipeline.
A young "tipple boy" stands near coal car rails at the Turkey Knob Mine in West Virginia. His job is to unload coal cars by tipping them over. August 1908 Turkey Knob Mine, MacDonald, West Virginia, USA
Narasimha Rao Ayyalasomayajula (foreground), a West Virginia University Ph.D. student working as a research associate at the Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory, and NETL researcher Steve Woodruff work on a diode pumped Nd:YAG laser invented at NETL. NETL researchers are developing a laser laboratory on a chip as a new type of optical sensor.
The Rev. Jenny Phillips of Fossil Free UMC provides information to delegates during the debate on fossil fuel at the May 20 plenary session of the 2016 General Conference in Portland, Ore. Photo by Maile Bradfield, UMNS.
August 2008
"WE WILL ALL BE GREEN"! --
after we tune-up our cars (which "we" all should already have)!
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These words are on the other side of the sign -
"LUBE OIL FILTER
FREE TIRE
ROTATION"
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That sign is a form of greenwashing
(because the auto tune-ups are made to seem like an ecological solution)
From the toxic waste created by the extreme extraction of tar sands destroying indigenous communities in Canada, to toxins created by the BP Whiting refinery producing sacrifice communities in the Greater Chicago area, to the resultant catastrophic effect on our climate, the urgent need for a just transition away from fossil fuels to a 100% renewable energy economy is abundantly clear.
Mande Muyombo from the North Katanga Conference makes a motion to refer the minority report from the Financial Administration legislative committee recommending divestment from fossil fuel companies back to the United Methodist Board of Pensions May 20 at the 2016 United Methodist General Conference in Portland, Ore. Photo by Kathleen Barry, UMNS
Barbara Stowe is led away by police after joining indigenous activists, senior citizens and other activists to block the gates to Kinder Morgan’s construction site on Burnaby Mountain in British Columbia. In solidarity with Coast Salish communities, they aim to show the world that Canada is going down the wrong path on climate and on reconciliation with Indigenous Nations in building this pipeline.
Artist John Daniel Teply touches up his artwork on the side of his Atelier Gallery in Portland, Oregon August 1, 2015. Teply was inspired by Greenpeace activist blockade action on the St. John's bridge as the delayed the departure of Shell's leased MSV Fennica in Portland. Photo by Greenpeace
Activists from across Washington and Oregon take action by land and sea to protect our waters, our communities, and our climate from Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion. A rally and march on land and a flotilla of kayaks and canoes swarming Kinder Morgan’s marine terminal from the water. Participating organizations in the Stop Kinder Morgan Action Council include: 350 Seattle, 350 Tacoma, Mosquito Fleet, Protectors of the Salish Sea, Students for the Salish Sea, Greenpeace USA, Sierra Club Washington Chapter, and Stand.earth.
Marie Kuch-Stanovsky, Pacific Northwest Conference, presents the minority report from the Financial Administration legislative committee recommending divestment from fossil fuel companies. Photo by Kathleen Barry, UMNS