http://oregonstate.edu/terra/2012/02/learning-to-think-like-a-planet/ A world of research at Oregon State University Wed, 15 May 2013 13:05:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://oregonstate.edu/terra/2012/02/learning-to-think-like-a-planet/#comment-69202 kirk nevin Tue, 17 Apr 2012 21:39:48 +0000 http://oregonstate.edu/terra/?p=8868#comment-69202 Dr. Thompson: You get your paycheck from OSU. Dr. Ray has committed (via the College and University President’s Climate Commitment) to an effort to quickly render OSU carbon-neutral. Despite this commitment, the recently approved Corvallis Loop, a high-pressure natural gas pipeline connecting the OSU energy center to a supply line in Albany, will enable OSU to greatly increase its consumption of gas, and therefore greatly increase its carbon footprint. Care to comment on the ethics of this situation? (Two GT articles describe the before-and-after negotiations with NW Natural: “Corvallis Mulls Natural Gas Line Under City Parks (and rivers)”, July 20, 2011; “New Gas Line is Coming To Town”, March 28, 2012). Also see many references to the San Bruno catastrophe of September, 2010 for a description of the potential for disaster with the Loop.

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