Sentences with phrase «pipelines debate on»
Lac - Megantic train explosion rekindles pipeline debate On Saturday, a train carrying crude oil derailed and exploded destroying an historic part of Lac - Megantic, Quebec and killing at least four 13 people..
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Victoria businessman David Black has thrown yet another log on the fiery debate over Enbridge's Northern Gateway pipeline with his proposal to build a $ 13 - billion oil refinery on the province's northern coast.
Black has also said he thinks his proposed refinery, by providing permanent jobs and economic benefits to British Columbians hitherto wary of oil exports, «will change the debate on the pipeline.»
The hurricane might have helped put climate change back on the White House agenda, and once the Keystone debate resumed earlier this year it didn't take long for environmentalist groups to link Canada's planned pipeline to the devastating storm.
The accident, though, will likely shift the U.S. debate over Keystone away from whether or not building the pipeline would have any significant impact on greenhouse gases (the U.S. State Department says it won't, environmentalists disagree), to whether or not Western Canada's oil is a particularly hazardous fuel.
The State Department's long - awaited environmental report on the Keystone XL pipeline leaves President Barack Obama with no real scientific reason to reject the nation's most fiercely debated energy project.
The derailment and explosions, which took place around 1:15 a.m. on Saturday, underscored a debate in the effort to transport North America's oil across long distances: is it safer and less environmentally destructive to move huge quantities of crude oil by train or by pipeline?
Since this debate over pipelines began in earnest last Fall, Jason Kenney and others have been calling on the federal government to invoke clause 92 (10)(c) of the Constitution, which allows the federal government to exert authority over infrastructure such as pipelines which, «although wholly situate within the Province, are before or after their Execution declared by the Parliament of Canada to be for the general Advantage of Canada or for the Advantage of Two or more of the Provinces.»
After weeks of flooding the airwaves with demands for an emergency debate on a motion condemning BC's interference with the Trans Mountain pipeline Jason Kenney finally got a chance to demonstrate what he meant... Continue reading →
Alberta Premier Rachel Notley wanted a respectful debate on the pipeline.
News Release Senator Doug Black is pleased that the Senate agreed to hold an emergency debate tonight on attempts by the government of British Colombia to stall the development of the Trans Mountain pipeline.
The bill isn't in the pipeline that could get it a floor debate before the scheduled end of the session on June 16.
Then on Wednesday, a post appeared on the Post's Wonkblog comparing the Amazon / Hachette fight to the debate over net neutrality: «Wanting to give consumers access to its products through the biggest single pipeline available, Hachette may relent on the price at which it sells books to Amazon, squeezing its slim profit margins even further.»
Levi, who has exposed overstatements on both sides of the polarized debate, sees the pipeline as meriting approval mainly because its impact on climate — whether approved or denied — would be minimal when placed in global context.
Better yet would be to debate an energy policy for the USA, including opening up exploratory oil and gas drilling including shale deposits, limiting the exponential growth of regulations currently stifling new exploration, ending the EPA regulatory war on coal, reactivating the Keystone pipeline, etc.; these issues have direct impact on American jobs and future energy independence, both of which are more important issues for US voters (and presidential candidates) than any «climate» debate.
Smith also notes that the repercussions extend beyond the debate over any given pipeline — under Harper, the Canadian government has become a global laggard on basic climate science.
-LSB-...] NY Times story on Keystone XLBy Andrew on July 26, 2011 This article on the debate over GHG emissions and the Keystone XL pipeline in the NYTimes does a really good job at highlighting the key issues... and made my day by linking to my blog.
-LSB-...] of mine on the Keystone XL pipeline debate.
Needless to say this has been deeply disturbing to an «ordinary Joe» (with 5 grandchildren) who has made an effort to understand the science and the politics that underlie the climate change «debate», especially since my country has become such an important player in the fossil fuel business with its tarsands and pipeline industries that affect us all, so I've tried to find out more about Judith Curry's recent contributions to the debate, not so much the hair - splitting, angels on the head of a pin, esoteric dissections of graphs and stats that I see here on your website but the ethical stance that you take on the larger issue of «killing» the IPCC and all it represents.
UPDATE VI: Canada's Globe and Mail newspaper reports on how this spill is «seeping» into the debate over the Keystone XL pipeline:
He knows how to cut through specious arguments on both sides of the energy - and - climate debate while keeping in target the bigger challenges facing the U.S. and the world... [The Power Surge] is one of the best analyses of the amazing changes taking place in the energy sphere today, touching on everything from fracking to climate change to the Keystone XL pipeline debate.