Environmental Considerations for Pipeline Abandonment: A Case Study From Abandonment of a Southern Alberta Pipeline

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica M. Swanson ◽  
Tom Kunicky ◽  
Pete Poohkay
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
High Water ◽  
Technical Condition ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
Protection Measures ◽  
Sediment Control

Since the 1920s, over 400,000 km of petroleum pipelines have been installed in Alberta. Pipeline abandonment is an increasingly relevant issue as the pipeline network ages. The full or partial abandonment of pipeline systems is necessitated by factors such as wind or water erosion issues, pipeline integrity issues, changes in source supply and customer demand, urban development encroachment and regulatory requirements. Pipeline abandonment-in-place is generally the preferred option based on the technical condition and environmental sustainability of the pipeline, however, in some cases pipeline removal or partial removal cannot be avoided. In all cases, the planning process for abandonment includes technical evaluation, risk assessment, environmental assessment, landowner consultation and/or evaluation of future land use. Abandonment plans must also include environmental protection measures to be implemented during the removal of any pipeline segment and consideration of the post-abandonment implications of any pipeline left in place. These measures include topsoil conservation, erosion/sediment control and reclamation. This paper discusses environmental protection measures for pipeline abandonment, using issues faced during abandonment of one of the oldest natural gas pipelines in Alberta as a case study. Challenges faced during this project included gathering of appropriate historical information including leak history and maintenance records, removal of all aboveground facilities, accommodations for future land use plans including road development and measures taken to minimize the risk of the abandoned pipeline becoming a water conduit. In addition, the paper will discuss the extensive planning and construction effort required to undertake pipeline abandonment at several fish-bearing watercourse crossings, where pipeline exposures during high water events necessitated pipeline removal. A primary objective in the planning and the removal of the abandoned pipeline was minimal disturbance of the land.

scholarly journals The application of environmental governance for sustainable watershed-based management

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seiichi Kagaya ◽  
Tetsuya Wada
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Protection ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Watershed Management ◽  
Water Use ◽  
Flood Control ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Environment Assessment ◽  
Control Water

AbstractIn recent years, it has become popular for some of countries and regions to adapt the system of governance to varied and complex issues concerned with regional development and the environment. Watershed management is possibly the best example of this. It involves flood control, water use management and river environment simultaneously. Therefore, comprehensive watershed-based management should be aimed at balancing those aims. The objectives of this study are to introduce the notion of environmental governance into the planning process, to establish a method for assessing the alternatives and to develop a procedure for determining the most appropriate plan for environmental governance. The planning process here is based on strategic environment assessment (SEA). To verify the hypothetical approach, the middle river basin in the Tokachi River, Japan was selected as a case study. In practice, after workshop discussions, it was found to have the appropriate degree of consensus based on the balance of flood control and environmental protection in the watershed.

Modelling Environmental Actions of Corporate Sustainable Activity

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rolandas Drejeris ◽  
Danguole Ozeliene
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Operating Costs ◽  
Structural Basis ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Protection Measures ◽  
Environmental Actions ◽  
Literature Synthesis ◽  
Many Sources

Many sources have been noted that environmental protection measures are economically beneficial as their application allows to increase the efficiency of resource use, reduce operating costs and increase company‘s profit. The aim of the article is to analyze the relevance of the environmental protection component of sustainable development in terms of its expression in the corporate activities. The possibilities to integrate this component into the company‘s developmental strategy are analyzed alongside creation of a model with a set of actions directed towards increasing environmental sustainability. The elements of this model would define not only the environmental actions to be taken, but would also provide structural basis for implementation of these processes. Assessment of actions under the criteria selected will determine and justify the sequence of processes to achieve the best results in the field of sustainability. The application of this model in the company's daily activities would allow to gradually approaching environmental sustainability and successfully manage environmental issues in any corporation. Research was based on the systematic analysis of scientific literature, synthesis of information, modelling actions according to their practical possibilities.

scholarly journals Hazardous substances in karst aquifer waters - one of the results of the operational monitoring of groundwater in Serbia

2020 ◽  
Vol 81 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-61
Author(s):  
Zoran Stevanovic ◽  
Veljko Marinovic ◽  
Branislav Petrovic
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Karst Aquifer ◽  
Colloidal Suspensions ◽  
Field Measurements ◽  
High Water ◽  
Hazardous Substances ◽  
Chemical Components ◽  
Protection Measures ◽  
Operational Monitoring

Hydrogeological survey of wider Majdanpek mining area in the Carpathian mountain arch of eastern Serbia, including open mine pits, tailings sites, and major karstic springs and caves has been undertaken in order to estimate environmental conditions in groundwater body (GWB) ?Krs?sever?, groundwater quality, and to investigate causes of their earlier indicated poor chemical status. Bearing in mind that Majdanpek copper mine field is directly bordering the karst aquifer and delineated GWB ?Krs?sever?, the two karst springs namely Valja Fundata and Kaludjerica were in situmeasured and sampled in high and low-water periods (spring 2019, late autumn 2019 and spring 2020). Sampling and analysis of groundwater were carried out under the frame of project ?Operational Monitoring of Groundwater of the Republic of Serbia?, established by the Ministry of Environmental Protection of Serbia. The field measurements of unstable chemical components and physical properties as well as laboratory analyses confirmed very poor and even hazardous water quality of both surveyed springs Valja Fundata and Kaludjerica. Registered concentrations of some ions, such as Fe2+, Mn2+, Ca2+, SO4 2?are high above maximal permitted level for potable water in Serbia. High turbidity rate also confirms impact of colloidal suspensions from the tailing which is located in karstic blind valley. Leakage of mine water passes through joints, open cavities and even large cave system Valja Fundata. Results of undertaken survey confirm that low-water period results with worse water quality and much higher concentration of hazardous substances than that characterized high-water season when infiltrated rainy water and/or melted snow dilute tailing?s wastewater. Strict application of environmental protection measures and de - sign/construction of the smaller water treatment facility at both surveyed springs should possibly mitigate the impacts of mining activities to karst groundwater and dependant ecosystem.

scholarly journals FIRST WORLDWIDE REGULATION ON SUSTAINABLE LANDFILLING: GUIDELINES OF THE LOMBARDY REGION (ITALY)

Detritus ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 114-124
Author(s):  
Raffaello Cossu ◽  
Dario Sciunnach ◽  
Silvia Cappa ◽  
Giorgio Gallina ◽  
Valentina Grossule ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Marked Change ◽  
Protection Measures ◽  
Lombardy Region ◽  
Protection Strategies ◽  
Physical Barriers ◽  
Sustainability Concept ◽  
Waste Management Practices

The environmental sustainability principle, since the Rio de Janeiro Conference (1992) and the Kyoto Protocol (1997), has produced a marked change in environmental protection strategies. In waste management practices this trend is reflected in the passage from a linear to a circular approach, where strong attention is paid to the recovery of resources from waste, with a dramatic reduction of untreated waste landfilling. But deposition of waste on soil still plays a crucial role in acting as a final sink for closing materials loop in Circular Economy. Paradoxically the regulations of landfilling at international level appear obsolete, not taking into account the environmental sustainability concept, still promoting unsustainable approaches, with environmental protection measures mainly based on physical barriers, without any consistent control of long term emissions of contaminants which last longer than the barriers themselves. “Guidelines for Sustainable Design and Management of Landfills” issued by the Lombardy Region in 2014 represents the first official regulation which introduced systematically the principle of environmental sustainability. They highlight the modern role of landfilling as a final sink and promote measures and procedures for controlling the mobility of the potential contaminants in the waste, until reaching, within a generation time, a Final Storage Quality in equilibrium with the environment. The aim of this paper is to illustrate and discuss the main aspects introduced by the Guidelines, offering an interesting base for a future spread of the practical application of the sustainability concept to landfilling.

SELECTING RELOCATION OF LAND USE IN HOT MUD DISASTER AREA BY APPLYING GEO-ENVIRONMENTAL EVALUATION. CASE STUDY: SIDOARJO, EAST JAVA, INDONESIA

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Doni Prakasa Eka Putra ◽  
Syauqi Syauqi ◽  
Juwarso Juwarso ◽  
Agus Hendratno ◽  
Handoko Teguh Wibowo
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Environmental Parameters ◽  
Land Uses ◽  
Environmental Evaluation ◽  
Difference Map ◽  
Disaster Area ◽  
West Part ◽  
Rating Method

Since May 29, 2006, a sea of hot mud has been gushing from the ground in Sidoarjo, East Java, 35 kilometers south of Indonesia’s second largest city, Surabaya. Due to this disaster, approximately thousand of people have been forced from their homes because 600 ha of land and villages were submerged, farmland was ruined, businesses and schools closed as the mud inundated the surrounding area. Relocation of the land uses and supporting infrastructures are become important to support the human survivability and environmental sustainability in this disaster area. In order to select the suitable location for land uses and infrastructures, aspect of environmental geology must be concerned. Geo-Environmental parameters such as geological hazards and geological resources are used to select the suitable relocation area. Evaluation of the suitable land uses is conducted by applying simple overlay rating method. Result of this evaluation shows that the relocation of the land uses can be differentiated into three categories; (i) high risk land use/infrastructure, moderate risk land use/infrastructure and low risk land use/infrastructure. Each of these categories have difference map of relocation suitability, however all maps indicate that the suitable relocation area is in the west-part from the hot mud disaster area. Keywords: Hot mud blast, relocation of land uses, geo-environmental evaluation

scholarly journals Mainstreaming Energetic Resilience by Morphological Assessment in Ordinary Land Use Planning. The Case Study of Moncalieri, Turin (Italy)

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 4443 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danial Mohabat Doost ◽  
Alessandra Buffa ◽  
Grazia Brunetta ◽  
Stefano Salata ◽  
Guglielmina Mutani
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Minimum Energy ◽  
Urban Morphology ◽  
Urban Systems ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Planning Processes

Energetic resilience is seen as one of the most prominent fields of investigation in the upcoming years. The increasing efficiency of urban systems depends on the conversion of energetic production of buildings, and therefore, from the capacity of urban systems to be more rational in the use of renewable resources. Nevertheless, the integration of the energetic regulation into the ordinary urban planning documents is far from being reached in most of planning processes. In Italy, mainstreaming energetic resilience in ordinary land use planning appears particularly challenging, even in those Local Administrations that tried to implement the national legislation into Local Building Regulation. In this work, an empirical methodology to provide an overall assessment of the solar production capacity has been applied to selected indicators of urban morphology among the different land use parcel-zones, while implementing a geographic information system-based approach to the city of Moncalieri, Turin (Italy). Results demonstrate that, without exception, the current minimum energy levels required by law are generally much lower than the effective potential solar energy production that each land use parcel-zone could effectively produce. We concluded that local planning processes should update their land use plans to reach environmental sustainability targets, while at the same time the energetic resilience should be mainstreamed in urban planning by an in-depth analysis of the effective morphological constraints. These aspects may also represent a contribution to the international debates on energetic resilience and on the progressive inclusion of energy subjects in the land use planning process.

scholarly journals The Study of the Coastal Management Criteria Based on Risk Assessmeant: A Case Study on Yunlin Coast, Taiwan

Water ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 988 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei-Po Huang ◽  
Jui-Chan Hsu ◽  
Chun-Shen Chen ◽  
Chun-Jhen Ye
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Coastal Management ◽  
Coastal Region ◽  
Design Criteria ◽  
Coastal Protection ◽  
Coastal Zones ◽  
Protection Measures ◽  
Coastal Defense ◽  
Protection Area

In this study, we used the natural and anthropogenic characteristics of a coastal region to generate risk maps showing vulnerability and potential hazards, and proposed design criteria for coastal defense and land use for the various kinds of risks faced. The Yunlin coast, a first-level protection area in mid-west Taiwan, was then used as an example to illustrate the proposed design criteria. The safety of the present coastal defenses and land use of the Yunlin coastal area was assessed, and coastal protection measures for hazard prevention were proposed based on the generated risk map. The results can be informative for future coastal management and the promotion of sustainable development of coastal zones.

scholarly journals Potential Conflicts in the Land-Use Planning Process: A Case Study of the Rural Commune of Oleśnica (Poland)

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-137
Author(s):  
Anna Grochowska ◽  
Martyna Małecka
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Planning System ◽  
Environmental Damage ◽  
Land Use Patterns ◽  
Use Patterns

AbstractThe purpose of this study was to identify compatibilities of land-use patterns resulting from adjacent functions within the rural commune of Oleśnica. The analysis was made based on the relevant studies of conditions and directions of spatial planning, as well as a field inventory. The results of the studies show that the applicable planning document became a potential source of spatial conflicts. On these grounds, a negative assessment was given to the functioning spatial planning system, which, according to the premises of spatial order and sustainable development, should prevent them. The existing incompatibilities are the result of issues with coordination of the local spatial policies. As a consequence, they cause an urban development chaos, lack of proper space shaping, environmental damage and lower the residents‘ quality of life.

scholarly journals Housing the dead in a no vacancy city: an analysis of best practices in pursuit of Toronto's cemetery design and planning framework

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sybil Tong
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Physical Geography ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Planning Framework ◽  
The Dead

As Toronto runs out of burial space, there currently lacks a set of guidelines to direct the cemetery planning process. This paper explores the barriers in the cemetery planning process that have manifested in Toronto and the planning ramifications of alternatives to casket burials, such as cremation, green burials, and grave reuse. This analysis aims to examine the specific solutions taken by various cities considering their physical geography and the population’s cultural and religious practices. The purpose of these analyses is to identify which methods of cemetery design and alternative interment, if any, would be feasible in Toronto’s context with regards to environmental sustainability, cultural practices, and affordability. Keywords: cemeteries; Toronto; sustainability; land use

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