TOP

Crude Move Webinar Series: Regulatory Activity and Environmental Requirements | Ohio Sea Grant

[ ☰ ] Ohio State University

The Ohio State University

Ohio Sea Grant

/news/calendar/2016/08/17/q03vx/crude-move-webinar-series

Crude Move Webinar Series: Regulatory Activity and Environmental Requirements

August 17, 2016 – Crude Move participants will explore the transport of crude oil across the Great Lakes Basin

NOTE This event occurs in the past
  • Time:Aug 17 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm, 2016
  • RSVP Contact:Christina Dierkes | Email Me
  • REGISTER BY • Aug 17, 2016
  • Event Organizer:Jill Jentes Banicki | Contact Host
  • Event Category:Webinars | Show Similar

Please note that this series is from 2016. Recordings and supplemental materials are linked in the left sidebar.


Join the Great Lakes Sea Grant Network for the Crude Move webinar series. Participants will explore the transport of crude oil across the Great Lakes Basin.

  • Understand the issues, risks, interests and options for moving crude oil throughout the Great Lakes Basin
  • Examine the systems of influence creating current crude oil infrastructure
  • Evaluate transportation options with reference to environmental and economic systems

Speakers

James Winebrake, Rochester Institute of Technology
Catherine Janasie, National Sea Grant Law Center


More webinars in this series

THIS IS A COMPLEX PROBLEM

Extraction. Refinement. Distribution. How crude oil passes through our lives and through the U.S. is a complex problem. It’s an integrated multiple-problem playing out across scales of geography, time and concern. Rittel and Webber introduced the idea of complex problems in 1973. Complex problems, made complex by interrelated systems and misunderstood value, are now everywhere … defying solutions crafted with traditional methods. Probing system interconnectivity and the domino effect of choice, the Crude Move webinars offer a fresh approach to the complex problem.

WHY SO COMPLEX?

No doubt about it: crude oil is a raw commodity that permeates our social, economic and environmental well-being. Still no doubt: crude oil and refined products move through the Great Lakes Basin. Export laws and the North Dakota Bakken and Alberta Tar Sands have increased the pressure to move crude oil to refineries in the Basin and beyond. The webinars will define how transportation options and the types of crude oil moved present risks … and benefits.

WHY THE GREAT LAKES BASIN?

Though the speed varies, crude oil spilled within the Great Lakes watershed eventually taints the system and its communities. As a binational area of interest that shares characteristics, the Basin is manageable in the context of transportation system information and a review of crude oil movement. By examining this “system of systems,” the webinars seek to illuminate issues and options so policy makers can understand complex linkages and transportation choices.

WHAT TRANSPORTATION CHOICES?

Within the Great Lakes Basin crude oil and its refined products can move by pipelines, ships, trains or trucks … unfettered by comparative evaluations of risk and costs. Hazardous cargo, like crude, lends itself to an interest in understanding relative risks (including the ability to mitigate a spill). The webinar inquiry will include fuel use, life-cycle costs and infrastructure.

Can the network of transportation resources be leveraged to protect Great Lakes environments and communities as crude oil moves within the Basin? Theoretically. Join the Crude Move discussion and find out.

Crude oil and its refined products take many forms. They impact mobility, quality of life, national security, economy and environment health.

Share Streams Print