Sentences with phrase «against oil pipeline»

Divergent star Shailene Woodley has spoken out about her run - in with the law last year, when she was arrested as part of the protest against the oil pipeline at Standing Rock.

«Kuku who is currently on self exile is also one of the sponsors of the Niger Delta Avengers and the large scale sabotage against the oil pipelines across the Niger Delta (2015 — 2017).

: the protest by U.S. First Nations people against oil pipelines in North Dakota and two new studies on some expected effects of climate change.

Not exact matches

Martin Louie, a First Nations leader from Nadieh, B.C., speaks to first nation protesters and their supporters as they gather outside the Enbridge AGM during their continuing protest against proposed oil pipelines in Canada's west coast, on Wednesday May 9, 2012.

BISMARCK, N.D. — A North Carolina - based private security firm hired by Texas - based pipeline developer Energy Transfer Partners won't be banned from North Dakota, though a judge is still weighing whether TigerSwan operated illegally in the state during protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline and might be subject to fines.

Facebook users across the US are «checking in» at Standing Rock, a Native American reservation at the heart of protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline.

Canadian producers had hoped a return to full capacity on the line would help relieve a bottleneck in the oil - rich province of Alberta, where increased output has run up against a shortage of pipeline and rail capacity.

Under former president Barack Obama, Transcanada Corp's Keystone XL oil pipeline was rejected in 2015 after environmentalists campaigned against the project for more than seven years.

The move comes after months - long protests by environmentalists and Native American groups in North Dakota against Energy Transfer Partners LP's $ 3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline, which would bring crude oil from the state's Bakken oil patch through the Midwest and into the U.S. Gulf Coast.

Since then, the Trans Mountain project has pitted the NDP - led governments in Alberta and British Columbia against each other after B.C. proposed new oil spill regulations that would effectively block new oil pipelines from reaching the West Coast.

Protesters have been buoyed by the recent success of Native American groups and environmentalists in their campaign against construction of the 1,100 - mile (1,770 - km) Dakota Access pipeline, a project spearheaded by Energy Transfer Partners (etp) that would carry oil from North Dakota's Bakken shale fields into Texas.

Such optimism must somehow reconcile with all the forces conspiring against Canadian oil: the lack of pipeline infrastructure or «takeaway» capacity, the occasionally gaping price discount applied to Western Canada Select, the renaissance in oil production unfolding in the U.S., rising Canadian production costs and the flight of investor money out of commodities.

But that volatility, as Ghosh likes to note, is the upside of the integrated nature of the company, which gives it a continued hedge against the differential in world oil prices through its downstream and midstream assets — on the midstream side, Husky operates a 2,000 - kilometre crude - oil pipeline system, and its downstream operations include upgrading and refining crude oil, and marketing gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, asphalt and ethanol in Canada and the United States.

Notley has earnestly tried to cast herself as much of a champion of oil as any Tory premier was — she's heading to British Columbia to talk energy and pipelines later this month, and Alberta has once again bid to intervene against a legal bid to thwart the Trans Mountain Pipeline in the westernmost province.

VANCOUVER — British Columbia's court case over the flow of heavy oil through the province could be damaged by the NDP government's previous positions against the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline, says a legal expert.

Murphy, who is a right - wing ideologue, also writes a turgid column for the pro-business National Post, where he rails against environmentalists on global warming, champions the oil sands and pipelines, and protests any effort to fight climate change.

Alberta's premier threatened trade retaliation against British Columbia for standing in the way of the pipeline, Canadian premier Justin Trudeau hinted that he could complete the project with taxpayer money, and BC's premier dug in his heels, recommitting his government to defending the coast from the risk of an oil spill.

He touched on his past opposition to free - trade agreements, his support for heavier regulations of Wall Street and the nation's banking industry, and his vote against the Keystone XL oil pipeline as a preview of his campaign.

A return to full capacity on the line is also expected to help relieve a bottleneck in the oil - producing province of Alberta, where increased output has run up against a shortage of pipeline and rail capacity.

Lack of pipelines to carry away the natural gas that comes with the oil may lead some producers to slow or stop production to comply with environmental regulations against flaring too much of the gas.

«Hard information has been difficult to come by from either the pipeline's operator, TransCanada, or U.S. regulatory agencies, as to when the pipeline might return to full pressure and help to alleviate a backlog of heavy oil barrels that has been accumulating in Alberta against a rising tide of production.

Pipeline, oil, and gas companies have lobbied against the tariffs because there just isn't enough domestic steel available to make pipeline materials.

Permian oil priced at Midland, Texas, now trades at a discount of more than $ 11 a barrel to Brent as rising production bumps up against pipeline capacity

Interestingly, CNPC was bidding against established oil majors; the company not only cleanly outbid every rival, it also paid the cash strapped Kazakh government a generous bonus upfront and conducted feasibility studies on a pipeline to Xinjiang, offering the Kazakhs a non-Russian export line.

Tompolo, who spoke through his Media Adviser and Consultant, Mr. Paul Bebenimibo, also said he will never commence war against the Federal Government having accepted amnesty in 2009, reiterating that he was not party to the recent three - day bombing of crude oil and gas pipelines in Delta State.

Speaking through his Media Adviser and Consultant, Mr. Paul Bebenimibo, Tompolo who said his appearance before the court will come at the appropriate time noted he would never commence war against the Federal Government having accepted amnesty in 2009, reiterating that he was not party to the recent three - day bombing of crude oil and gas pipelines in Delta state.

The Town Board got an earful from opponents of a proposed oil pipeline, but decided against passing a resolution to

In July 2013, the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority - East, which maintains levees around New Orleans, filed suit against more than 90 oil, gas and pipeline companies.

And to guard against hydrogen sulfide and other corrosive gases that come bundled with pre-salt oil, Petrobras is experimenting with resistant materials to protect the pipelines.

He also has come out in favor of the Keystone XL pipeline and against Interior regulations to limit methane waste from oil and gas wells.

Drove continued change to finishing practices; worked on the MSC assessment and B.C. Water Act; inspired 1,000 Canadian classrooms to plant milkweed to create Monarch butterfly havens; rallied against the Northern Gateway oil pipeline

The brothers led a group of right - wing guerrilla soldiers, called «God's Army,» against the Burmese military who were forcing the Karen people from their lands to secure the route of an oil pipeline.

Three zomes have been erected outdoors in Los Angeles, where they function as the artist's studio, and two zomes will soon be installed as a shelter at Camp Makwa in Minnesota, an active protest site against a proposed oil pipeline.

In the wake of the high - profile protests against the proposed Keystone XL pipeline and 1,250 arrests, some of the world's best - known Nobel Peace Prize winners are lending their voices in opposition to the 1,700 mile project that would bring Canadian tar sands oil down to Texas.

Green leaders issue a global, social media - based rallying call to push back against an effort to pass the tar sands oil pipeline through the Senate tomorrow.

Reasons against the Keystone pipeline were many and varied, from oil spill impacts to indigenous issues.

He is most recently the founder of the advocacy group 350.org which has led campaigns against the Keystone XL oil pipeline and on behalf of campus divestment from fossil fuel companies.

It's time to take a stand against the Keystone XL pipeline, a dangerous and destructive project that would pump over one million barrels of dirty «tar sands» oil from Canada to the USA every day.

This morning President Obama rejected the Keystone XL pipeline, capping a seven - year uprising against the project, which would have carried 800,000 barrels of extreme oil from Canada to the Gulf Coast every day.

This Saturday, they launch two weeks of protests in Washington, D.C., against plans for the Keystone XL pipeline, which would increase oil sands imports into the United States.

Grand Chief Serge Simon of the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake said, «On behalf of the Treaty Alliance Against Tar Sands Expansion, we thank these organizations for showing leadership in heeding the call of the Mazaska Talks campaign to divest from the banks responsible for DAPL and the four pipelines being proposed to carry even more tar sands oil out of Canada.

Strike two against the Obama administration was the permission it granted early in the president's term to build a pipeline into Minnesota and Wisconsin to handle oil pouring out of the tar sands of Alberta.

The Keystone XL Pipeline will give America energy independence, if there is ever a war in the Middle East our oil supply could be cut off, and with the XL we won't have that problem, 42,000 jobs will be created, 2 Billion paid to workers will give our treasury a boost, if we don't get approval Canada will sell the oil to China, they are our trading partners and our enemy, the pipeline will be a good thing for Americans, lower prices at the gas pump, and jobs for growth where as of now, we are not growing like we have in the past, just a few are against this but we have Millions of Americans who want it and they are more important than the few.

She said that the aftereffects of oil sands drilling that would come along with the expansion of the pipeline would likely desecrate the freshwater Ogallala Aquifer near her homelands in Pine Ridge, S.D. «It is with great honor that I come here today to ask President Obama to stand with us for Mother Earth against Father Greed,» Plume said.

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In the face of such broad support, the Sheriff's office, Suarez, and county attorney, Micheal P. Short, have decided to take the side of Energy Transfer, which has used eminent domain against local landowners and which threatens sacred and traditional Native territories along the pipeline route.Energy Transfer's pipeline would move approximatly 470,000 barrels oil per day with capacity to move 570,000 barrels daily from the Bakken fields of North Dakota to be exported out to the gulf.

Warren Buffett funneled millions through his family foundation to the secretive Tides Foundation to pressure groups campaigning against the Keystone and Sandpiper Pipelines, thereby benefiting his railroad and tank car companies that haul oil.

Most recently he's has spoken against a now - delayed plan to build an oil pipeline from Canada to refineries along the Gulf of Mexico..

CFACT Senior Policy Advisor Paul Driessen says that the Obama Administration is continuing, even revving up, its campaign against domestic energy production with new EPA regulations on the horizon that would shutter much of the nation's coal industry and do great harm to oil and gas production; he also promised to veto any legislation to approve the Keystone XL pipeline.

Opponents have mounted a well - organized, celebrity - studded campaign against the pipeline, arguing it would increase U.S. dependency on the oil sands, which they describe as the world's dirtiest oil.