More than 100 local and environmental groups have urged FERC to immediately halt all construction on the line «to ensure the safety of communities
along the pipeline route.»
He said ten pumping
stations along the pipelines will be designed to fully contain spills, and said previous spills should be considered in context: 5,560 barrels spilled from more than 750 million barrels of petroleum piped by his firm in 2006.
It would «take a limited number of terrorists, small amount of explosives, some basic hand tools» to conduct «a coordinated attack along just a few key nodes
along that pipeline in the span of just really minutes,» Cooper said in an interview.
That raises the possibility of court challenges by First Nations,
blockades along the pipeline route between Edmonton and Kitimat, B.C., and rallies in major cities during the run - up to a federal election that must be called by October 2015.
Other worries for residents are the impact of pipeline construction on the environment (75 %), the possibility of infringing upon the rights of communities living
along the pipeline path (67 %), the project's impact on First Nations communities (also 67 %), a lack of trust in Enbridge (65 %) and Enbridge's history of incidents (60 %).
Asked if the risks of an oil spill on
land along the pipeline route is a concern, Horgan said Trans Mountain has an existing right - of - way that's «been there for 50 years with more or less unblemlished activity.»
Nebraska's decision overrode the objections of environmental groups, Native American tribes and
landowners along the pipeline's prospective route.
A majority (153) of the targeted electoral districts — Prince George (20), Kamloops (16), Fraser - Nicola (1), Chilliwack and Hope (27), Abbotsford (31), Surrey (20), Burnaby (28), and Vancouver (12)-- are regions and
cities along the pipeline's route.ii
Officials in Rosendale, New Paltz and the town of Ulster have also said they lack sufficient firefighting resources to handle potential
emergencies along the pipeline route.
As the town government's official liaison on the project as well as an organizer of the activist group Citizens for Local Power, Metzger made the announcement during a discussion at the January 13 town - board meeting about the latest actions taken by communities
situated along the pipeline corridor.
Another hypothesis is that they are receiving food subsidies from the sometimes novel types of plants that establish in the reclaimed areas surrounding well pads and
along pipeline scars.»
The Seeding Drug Discovery Initiative was established by the Wellcome Trust to help researchers move early - stage drug discoveries
further along the pipeline and, ultimately, towards clinical trials.
The tangled web connecting the nontransparent and elite Wise Academy to a for - profit corporation located in Virginia is one more consequence of lax and loose charter laws that divert taxpayer
dollars along a pipeline that siphons dollars away from educating kids.
Three years earlier, in 2006, Exxon also reversed the direction of the pipeline's flow, a move that would automatically alter the impact of pressure cycles by changing where the highest and lowest pressures
hit along the pipeline.
Exxon must also provide spill response training for certain Pegasus employees in 2015 and 2017, and position spill response equipment in three
locations along the pipeline.
Last month FERC gave the go - ahead to pipeline developers to clear - cut 20 miles of
trees along the pipeline's planned route through Pennsylvania.
Using the power granted under the Clean Water Act, DEC officials rejected the companies» permit application, citing damage the project would do to water
supplies along the pipeline route.
We have two main concerns: the risk of oil
spills along the pipeline, which would traverse highly sensitive terrain, and the fact that the extraction of petroleum from the tar sands creates far more greenhouse emissions than conventional production does.
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.
The Keystone XL has sparked
opposition along the pipeline route, where it crosses rivers, ranches and farms, and across the country, where critics said it would facilitate the exploitation of Canada's oil sands, or tar sands.
Patrol Pilot The patrol pilot flies crosscountry at low
altitudes along pipelines or power lines checking for signs of damage vandalism and other conditions requiring repairs Patrol pilots radio to headquarters the location and nature of repair jobs
Developed solutions that safely and effectively addressed challenges including ice - infested water, permafrost presence on seafloor and threats of ice
gouging along pipeline route.
In February of this year, Kinder Morgan claimed it had reached 20 agreements with First
Nations along the pipeline route, and was in talks with 30 - 40 others.
[115] German weekly Stern has reported that the fibre optic cable and repeater
stations along the pipeline could theoretically also be used for espionage.
Some residents
living along the pipeline's route, worried about the potential impact of a spill on local waterways, filed lawsuits and launched protests far from Washington.
Another issue haunting the Trans Mountain process has been the ethics of various «Memoriums of Understanding» (MOU) that Kinder Morgan has been forging with municipalities and First Nations
along the pipeline route.
But these data show that they sure have been working diligently to sway the «public interest»
all along the pipeline's path by targeting politicians and regulatory officials.
The Pilgrim Pipeline proposal has also raised objections among town officials in Rosendale and New Paltz, which are
along the pipeline route, as well as from Rochester, Marbletown, and Woodstock in Ulster County and Rhinebeck in Dutchess County.
Town boards in Rosendale and New Paltz, which are
along the pipeline route, have adopted resolutions objecting to the proposed pipeline.
We expose the hazards of tar sands oil spills — which are harder to clean up than conventional crude —
along pipelines and railways.
This pipeline has been fiercely opposed by Indigenous organizers in the tar sands, and
along the pipeline route in Lakota country since it was first proposed.
The expansion project included the reactivation and enhancement of several pump stations
along the pipeline.
This will certainly be a summer of discontent in the communities
along the pipeline's proposed route and elsewhere in British Columbia and across Canada; with plans for rallies, protests and blockades already coming together.