Matters of scale: trouble in the pipeline.

MATTERS OF SCALE

Trouble in the Pipeline


Area of Israel                             2 MILLION HECTARES

Area of reindeer pasture in Russia
destroyed by oil pollutants and fires
in recent years                           22 MILLION HECTARES

Amount of oil spilled in the Exxon
Valdez disaster                               257,000 BARRELS

Amount of oil spilled into the Niger
River Delta between 1986 and 1996,
according to a CIA study                    2,500,000 BARRELS

Amount the Texaco CEO was paid in 1995             $1,800,000

Amount the average worker at a Texaco
oil well in Ecuador was paid that year                 $1,800

Amount of oil in the U.S. Strategic
Petroleum Reserve, in days of net
imports                                               53 DAYS

Amount of food reserve in most U.S.
cities                                                 2 DAYS

Number of countries reported in World
Rainforest Bulletin (16 articles) in
which significant deforestation was
caused by fire in recent years                              9

Number of countries reported in World
Rainforest Bulletin (80 articles) in
which significant deforestation was
caused by oil and gas exploitation                         17

Length of an oil pipeline in Colombia
that has been bombed by guerrillas more
than a thousand times since 1986,
including 177 attacks in 2001 (the year
of 9-11), totaling at least two bombings
for each kilometer of pipeline:                        490 KM

Total length of nine larger oil
pipelines now operating or under
construction in politically
volatile areas where recent unrest
could make them prime rebel or
terrorist targets *                                 14,872 KM

* Baku-Ceyhen, Baku-Supsa, Baku-Novorossiisk, Kazakhstan-Russia, and
Caspian (through Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey, Russia, Chechnya,
Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan); Pakistan-China;
Tibet-China; Bolivia-Brazil; Chad-Cameroon.

SOURCES: U.S. Central Intelligence Agency; Trade and Environment
Database Case Studies, www.american.edu/TED; World Rainforest Bulletin;
www.geocities.com/TheTropics/Cabana/4580/oil.html; Strategic Petroleum
Reserve, U.S. Department of Energy; U.S. Department of State;
www.princeton.edu/~afp/vol002_iss06/colombia.htm.