Sentences with phrase «mosier oil train»

The oil exploration method allows oil engineers to dig up oil in locations that would have been unthinkable just years ago, and oil trains are the most efficient way to get natural resources from the field to the refinery.

Activists say these trains pose a risk to the millions who live along the tracks where crude oil trains travel.

Keith Stewart, a climate and energy campaigner with Greenpeace Canada who has examined the increased use of oil trains, criticized railways in Canada and the United States for continuing to use older oil tank cars that he said were found to be unsafe more than 20 years ago.

A speed limit reduction will cascade throughout UNP's operations reducing operational efficiency as switching and loading stations wait longer for the slower oil trains.

A crude oil train sits parked outside the Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery owned by the Carlyle Group in south Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., March 20, 2014.

Have you jumped on the bulletproof coffee and brain octane oil train yet?

Longtime Albany activist Charlene Benton, who fought for clean air and against the crude oil trains running through city, has died.

Albany residents raised concerns — as they have over the last several months — over oil train shipments into the city.

Carolyn McLaughlin, the president of the Albany Common Council and the Albany County Democratic Committee chair, seconded the nomination by noting Schumer's work on behalf of Henry Johnson, a World War I veteran, and in cracking down on oil trains that run next to Albany's public housing.

The proposed Pilgrim pipeline would stretch about 180 miles from Albany to the New Jersey coast and would also be fed by oil trains, potentially boosting their traffic.

ALBANY — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has been at odds with Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration over a number of high - profile issues in recent years, including a Tappan Zee bridge construction loan, oil trains in the Port of Albany and the cleanup of the Hudson River.

In mid-August, on the day before Enck was to meet with residents concerned that the state had not done enough to address the issue of oil trains and industrial pollution at public housing near the Port of Albany, the state announced it would devote hundreds of thousands of dollars in investment for the area and step up enforcement of rules regulating diesel trucks.

Three weeks later, it announced that it had been selected by the Department of Environmental Conservation to deal with «emergencies caused by crude oil trains.»

In the face of a court challenge from a broad coalition of environmental and community groups and massive community opposition, the DEC today halted Global Companies» proposed expansion of its massive Albany oil train facility to handle tar sands oil.

Continuing his efforts to make sure that «oil trains» passing through Buffalo and other New York communities do not derail and explode, US Sen. Chuck Schumer called on the federal government to require the oil in those tanker cars be made less volatile before it is shipped.

«I've fought to enact greater protections for the Hudson River from an oil train disaster and to keep fracking waste out of New York State.

He refers to the April 30th explosion of a crude oil train that derailed in Lynchburg, Virginia.

CSX is asking New York State not to give the public any information about how much oil trains are carrying and what routes they will take.

However, it has not taken additional steps to limit oil trains in the way environmental and community groups have requested.

Oil train traffic has exploded in the United States since companies began sucking oil up from the Bakken fields of North Dakota in recent years.

Federal Environmental Protection Agency Regional Administrator Judith Enck and New York State DEC Commissoner Basil Seggos joined other government officials in a candid two - hour session with Ezra Prentice residents, who have long suspected oil trains and diesel truck traffic could be responsible for their health issues.

And while rail transport typically falls under federal purview, the decision by the Cuomo administration reflects an increasing state interest in rail cargo, as the number of oil trains has grown from 10,000 a year to more than 400,000 carloads transported last year.

The oil train industry has expanded dramatically under Governor Andrew Cuomo.

Albany County Executive Dan McCoy has been a staunch opponent of oil trains.

The administration has hired additional inspectors and stepped up inspections of oil trains and rail tracks and has sent letters to federal officials asking for stronger restrictions on oil trains.

Opposition to Global's activities increased dramatically after the company attempted to build the crude - heating facility and after a 2013 oil train explosion killed 47 people in Canada.

The state Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services revealed recently that as many as 42 oil trains per week were coming into Albany.

«I've fought to enact greater protections for the Hudson River from an oil train disaster and to keep fracking waste out of New York state.

We forced a debate on rent control, the $ 9 billion extortion from Boeing, and on the climate crisis and the oil trains coming through this city.

Freshman Republican Congresswoman Elise Stefanik shares Senator Schumer's concern about oil trains, including his mantra to build stronger cars, but she believes in other ways to reduce the reliance on oil trains to move Bakken crude.

Environmental activists gathered on the steps of the Capital on Wednesday to ask Cuomo for more measures, including shutting down natural gas pipelines and oil trains.

WAMC's David Guistina talks with Mike Spain of the Times Union about oil trains in New York's capital region.

The new critique comes almost a week after it was revealed that the EPA had accused Global Companies, which operates a train terminal at the Port of Albany, of violating air pollution standards regarding emissions from the dozens of oil trains that come through there each week.

WAMC's David Guistina talks with Mike Spain of the Times Union about oil trains in Albany and officers suspended over woodchuck death.

The increased inspections followed several accidents involving oil trains that resulted in explosions, fires and, in one instance, the deaths of 47 people in Lac - Megantic, Quebec.

We've been working very closely on the oil trains issue, on housing homeless veterans, and I look forward to continuing to work with him,» said Sheehan.

Hawkins, the Green Party nominee for Governor, said oil trains in New York are a rolling environmental injustice.

Albany County hasn't had a major oil train disaster, but County Executive Dan McCoy, erring on the side of «safe, not sorry» called a community «Crude Oil Transportation Summit» to brainstorm and compare notes with officials who have had to deal with such calamities.

A demonstration about the oil trains is being held today at the Governor's mansion in Albany.

He's championed veteran's causes, enacted a ban on styrofoam cups, worked hard to eliminate so - called toxic toys — and most of all been a vocal opponent of dangerous oil trains, grabbing national headlines.

There have been several developments this week impacting oil trains, the subject of national and local debate.

An oil train that derailed and erupted in flames in West Virginia on Monday was hauling newer model tank cars, not older versions widely criticized for being prone to puncture, the maker said

NEW YORK, Feb 18 (Reuters)- Tank cars from a derailed oil train were still on fire in West Virginia on Wednesday, two days after an explosive accident in which 25 cars went off the rails, a CSX Corp spokeswoman said.

Tank cars from a derailed oil train were still on fire in West Virginia on Wednesday, two days after an explosive accident in which 25 cars went off the rails, a CSX Corp spokeswoman said

No recent crude oil train derailments have been attributed to sun kinks.

And then, on Dec. 30, a collision involving another oil train forced evacuation of a city in North Dakota.

Regional railroads, principally BNSF, are on board with dedicated 100 - car oil trains, the principal way that Bakken oil reaches refineries.

But since Crestwood Midstream Partners» oil loading facility was built three years ago, long oil trains dominate the tracks rather than grain hopper cars.

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada, which is investigating, noted on Saturday that the accident occurred about 23 miles (37 km) from the site of a Feb. 14 accident involving a CN crude oil train.

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