Sentences with phrase «approval of pipelines»

The approval of pipelines is not something that should ever become a rubber - stamp process; but it also can not become an endless mountain of regulatory burden and unnecessary delays.

Speaking at a town hall in Peterborough, Ont., Trudeau was asked about his government's approval of pipelines and his commitment to the environment.

Notley didn't mention Trudeau by name, but touted the recent approval of pipelines and said the oilsands will power the global economy for generations to come.

Labor unions have pushed for approval of the pipeline, saying it would create thousands of construction jobs, while environmentalists opposed it because it would increase greenhouse gas emissions from Canada's oil sands.

Approval of the pipeline's crossing the US - Canada border ultimately rests in the hands of President Barack Obama.

She urged the NEB to recommend approval of the pipeline to the federal cabinet for the benefit of all Canadians.

«Alberta's energy minister put out a call to his provincial and federal counterparts to speed up approval of the pipeline.

This time, they'll try to insert language that explicitly forces the approval of the pipeline.

The review did not recommend approval of the pipeline, but raised no major objections, concluding that the project was «unlikely to have a substantial impact» on the climate or oil sands production.

But environmental groups have mounted a major campaign to derail the project, arguing that approval of a pipeline from Canada's «tar sands» will increase global emissions of greenhouse gases, threaten local water sources and frustrate U.S. efforts to reduce its reliance on crude oil.

Rail is a second - best option and is only on the agenda now because of the threat to the approval of the pipeline.

Not exact matches

The Conservatives» demonization of carbon - pricing regimes and dilatory environmental policy has had the unintended consequence of stalling the United States» approval of the Keystone XL pipeline between Alberta and the Gulf Coast, Trudeau says.

In January, Obama rejected the proposed 2,673 - kilometre pipeline between Alberta's oilsands and the Gulf of Mexico, saying the 60 - day approval deadline set by Congress didn't allow enough time to review the project.

Other political money flows through trade associations in the U.S. such as the American Chamber of Commerce, which has already spent more than $ 21 million in campaign advertising this year, including $ 1.5 million on ads accusing Democratic Senator Mark Udall of driving up energy costs, largely in response to his refusal to support Republican demands for immediate approval of the Keystone pipeline.

But a less publicized move to replace the head of a federal regulatory agency will almost certainly slow federal approval for new natural gas pipelines.

An op - ed by Diana Furchtgott - Roth in The Globe and Mail was quick to conclude that «after Saturday's tragedy in Lac - Mégantic, Que., it is time to speed up the approval of new pipeline construction in North America....

Dakota Access, a subsidiary of Energy Transfer Partners, the company building the pipeline, responded to Business Insider's request for comment last fall in an email, saying: «Crude pipelines in the country have a very specific review and approval process that must be followed.

But on Tuesday, Trump signed a series of directives aimed at speeding up the pipeline's approval process.

Both provinces will likely flex their muscles by submitting a list of conditions the pipelines have to meet in order to win approval.

With approval of the Keystone Pipeline it could mean more Canadian crude oil is coming to the U.S. CNBC's Jackie DeAngelis is in Nebraska, at the pipeline pumping station with a look at its impact on oil prices and exports.

The company's executives, including CEO Gerry Smith, suggested that Office Depot's business services pipeline had fallen to «basically zero,» during the time it was waiting for the government's approval of the Staples deal.

On Sunday, a federal court rejected a request by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe to halt construction of the Dakota Access pipeline but said that ruling was «not the final word,» as a necessary easement still needed government approval.

The executive memo «directs agencies to expedite reviews and approvals for the remaining portions of this pipeline,» White House press secretary Sean Spicer clarified during Tuesday's news briefing.

My blog post a year ago called it A Very Political Budget: the document sought to institutionalize Harper's sense of outrage at Barack Obama's decision to delay approval of the Keystone XL pipeline project.

From the time Enbridge began talking publicly about Northern Gateway almost a decade ago, the oil pipeline project — which is expected to get federal cabinet approval any day now — got off on the wrong foot by the company's lack of a presence in British Columbia.

«There's a question of whether going along with the approval of the Northern Gateway pipeline will make LNG development in B.C. more challenging by angering First Nations so adamantly opposed to the oil sands pipeline,» said George Hoberg, a professor at the University of British Columbia's school of forestry and founder of UBCC350, a group pressing for action on greenhouse gas emissions.

The approval process until now has focused mostly on the integrity of the pipeline, the route chosen, the threat to the Ogallala aquifer, and so on.

Non-residential building approvals have increased to be above the levels of recent years and there is a large pipeline of public infrastructure investment to be completed (Graph 4).

Oil sands players, as well as U.S. producers in North Dakota, have been clamouring for pipeline approvals, claiming that all of the political foot dragging around pipeline projects weakened pricing power and critically hampered their operations.

Irving Oil said it expects engineering and design work would begin in 2015 to coincide with developments of the west - to - east pipeline, which still requires environmental approval.

«Given Justin Trudeau's recent pipeline approvals, he should be given the benefit of the doubt and a chance to clarify his remarks.»

These include conditions placed on the recommended approvals of the Northern Gateway pipeline and the now - inflammatory Trans Mountain Expansion proposed by Kinder Morgan.

Despite the National Energy Board's recent approval, staunch opposition from First Nations groups and environmentalists looks set to suspend the pipeline in a state of legal limbo.

The ongoing US recovery, the new US administration's decision to restart the approval process for the Keystone XL pipeline and other energy projects, and further policy measures, including tax reform, deregulation and infrastructure spending, could boost both demand and business confidence, igniting animal spirits and leading to an acceleration in the rates of investment, firm creation and innovation.

There's no shortage of blame being passed around in the wake of another delay in the U.S. regulatory approval process with respect to TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline which, it was announced last Friday, will now drag on for at least another six months.

As part of the discussions over Maryland's approval of the proposed $ 4.5 billion AltaGas / Washington Gas merger deal, Governor Larry Hogan's administration negotiated for the Canadian company to pay $ 103 million to kick start a natural gas pipeline expansion project in rural areas throughout Maryland, according to the Maryland Energy Administration.

RBC analyst Michael Tran said that, even with Canadian government approvals of Kinder Morgan Inc.'s Trans Mountain expansion and Enbridge Inc.'s Line 3 replacement project, no new major pipeline capacity is likely to come on stream until at least 2019 or 2020.

Xu Lin, head of the planning department at the National Development and Reform Commission, told reporters in Beijing yesterday that recently published approvals for projects only represent part of what's in the pipeline.

Justin Trudeau announced the approval of the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline Tuesday, saying the project is integral to meeting Canada's climate commitments.

The President's speech and its affirmation of the Alberta's government's climate change policies is likely the type of «social license «that Ms. Notley hopes will lead to more oil pipeline construction approvals in the future.

British Columbia's demand for oil spill safety enhancements, by contrast, are capable of being designed so as not to usurp the federal government's authority over the approval of interprovincial pipelines.

Despite the pronounced fall in approvals in the first half of the year, the level of activity is not expected to decline in the second half of 2003 given the large amount of work still in the construction pipeline.

VANCOUVER — The federal approval of the Kinder Morgan pipeline project shows that Christy Clark has failed to protect B.C.'s coast, says B.C. New Democrat Leader John Horgan.

Brett Harris, a spokesman for Calgary - based Cenovus Energy Inc., a committed oil - sands shipper on the proposed pipeline, said the approval «is in the best interest of the industry, best interest of Canada and the best interest of the U.S. as well.

A review of the documentation submitted to the National Energy Board (NEB) by Kinder Morgan reveals that other assumptions which led to the pipeline's approval are also questionable.

The pressure to curb emissions from Alberta's bitumen production threatens U.S. approval of TransCanada Corp.'s (TRP) proposed Keystone XL pipeline linking the oil sands to the Gulf Coast.

Biotech companies that don't have new drugs or therapies in the pipeline yet (about 40 percent of all those that went public last year, in fact) tend to take advantage of an IPO window because they have serious cost burdens --- like multiple drug tests and regulatory approval --- that other VC - backed companies don't have.

Sen. Mary Landrieu, chair of the U.S. Senate energy committee, with Sen. Joe Manchin, a member of the committee, speak to reporters about the new urgency to get congressional approval for the Canada - to - Texas Keystone XL pipeline in Washington on Nov. 12.

The numbers of colleges that the hon. Gentleman has calculated that were promised approval in detail, and the numbers in the pipeline — that is significant, because not only colleges that have had approval in principle are waiting for funding clearance — did not become available to Ministers with any clarity until that date.

The Republican - controlled Congress gave its final approval to a bill authorizing construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, setting up the first big veto fight with President Barack Obama.