Sentences with phrase «coast by barge»

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Along with questions of national interest, the candidates also fielded questions on a hot - button local issue, a proposal by the Coast Guard to open 10 new anchorages on the Hudson to oil barges to relieve congestion at the Port of Albany.

«The Coast Guard needs to hear from people in the Hudson Valley that we don't want these anchorages, that they jeopardize our river, the scenic beauty of the Hudson Valley and the safety, frankly, of our communities with these volatile products that would be transported in very large volumes by these barges,» Carlock says.

To move a major muon experiment from Brookhaven to Fermilab, however, particle physicists decided that a key piece of equipment — the massive but fragile accelerator storage ring — should travel by barge on a 6 - week voyage down the U.S. Atlantic coast, around Florida, and up the Mississippi River.

In fact, the State Department noted that other options of getting oil from Canada to the Gulf Coast are generally worse for the environment, a point that was revisited by TransCanada's CEO Russ Girling who pointed to statistics showing that pipelines are a safer way to transport oil than rail, barge, or truck.