Sentences with phrase «as oil tanker»

It proves you don't have to drive a car as big as an oil tanker to seat five adults comfortably.

In previous research he found that Vibrio became the dominant type of marine bacteria off the south - eastern US as oil tanker traffic increased after the 1970s.

Not exact matches

Japanese losses were high — three out of the nine aircraft carriers were sunk, as well as two oil tankers, 395 carrier - based planes, and over 2,000 sailors and airmen.

Notley achieved one of the most surprising electoral wins in Canadian history and one of the most profound for the progressive movement, but it came just as oil was reaching terminal price - drop velocity, shoaling the Alberta revenue tanker.

Raitt's three - year timeline to fully dispose of older DOT - 111A tankers (and immediate phase - out of 5,000 of the most vulnerable cars) is going to be a difficult one to meet given the existing capacity for suppliers to build new tankers, as well as the desire of oil and gas companies to continue the exponential increases in oil - by - rail shipments into the future.

Although the particular coastline of Vancouver Island I was fishing this summer is not directly on the proposed tanker route, any sizeable oil spill along the north coast of British Columbia would have consequences here as well.

The next big battle is in southern B.C., as citizens fight to stop Kinder Morgan's proposal to load more than 400 oil tankers a year in Burnaby.

Kinder Morgan bears no liability for oil spills originating from a tanker that docks at its oil terminus, but this too should be changed, requiring the pipeline operator to share the liability as long as the tanker is in Canadian waters.

After all how long can you keep a fleet of giant tankers sitting out in the ocean acting as storage for millions of barrels of oil, and there is more supply soon coming online.

Just as Albertans expected their political leaders to fight back when Trudeau - the - dad tried to force his National Energy Plan on them in 1980, British Columbians expect our premier to fight to protect our province from bullies from across the Rockies trying to bisect British Columbia with an unwanted pipeline to deliver toxic bitumen to Burnaby for export on oil tankers.

There is essentially no Alberta oil in California or Florida, so citizens there can boycott until their heart's content — they can't buy it anyway as all their oil is supplied by tankers from the Middle East, Venezuela, etc..

This month they announced Thomas Berger, a legendary Indigenous rights lawyer, as intervener for the Squamish First Nation court case and legal advisor for stopping Kinder Morgan's oil tanker expansion.

This work included representing two First Nations in a successful legal challenge to the federal government's approval of Northern Gateway, as well as advocating for a strong federal oil tanker ban law on BC's north coast.

KRG says independent tanker loadings to begin The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has announced that it will market crude from oil fields under its control sent autonomously of Iraq's central government to the Turkish port of Ceyhan in a pipeline it claims as its own, with the first shipment up for sale before the end of January.On the KRG's website late on Jan. 8, the Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) gave «public notice of the commencement of the sale of its first shipment of crude oil exported via Kurdistan Region's new...

Teekay Tankers was primarily negatively affected by the severe drop in crude oil prices sending tanker rates to the lowest levels in more than three years, as well as some temporary oil production outages in markets the company's tankersTankers was primarily negatively affected by the severe drop in crude oil prices sending tanker rates to the lowest levels in more than three years, as well as some temporary oil production outages in markets the company's tankerstankers serve.

As Robyn Allan describes in the podcast, nobody is proposing rail - to - tanker shipments through B.C. Connecting Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain expansion to oil - by - rail is a complete non-sequitur.

One illustration of the present government's lack of joined up thinking on preventing terrorism is the large number of oil tankers that for the last year have been anchoring off the East Anglian coast as a result of a series of government decisions or more recently lack of decisions about them.

After several denials by the Defence Headquarters that a recently hijacked oil tanker, MT Leon Dias was not abducted by alleged pro-Biafra militants and in Nigerian waters, the Defence Headquarters has warned that any group of persons or interests who indulge in hijacking or piracy against any merchant vessel off the coast of Nigeria would be treated as criminals and saboteurs.

Some sources of pollution, such as nuclear power plants or oil tankers, can produce widespread and potentially hazardous releases when accidents occur.

Osborne's swagger seems a bit subdued as we wind our way through the laboratories and testing pools, past scale models of tankers and oil platforms detailed down to the company logos painted on their sides (no photos allowed).

However, tens of thousands of leaky auto engines whizzing over already polluted urban environments can't compare with the damage done to a pristine environment by a single oil tanker such as the Exxon Valdez, which spilled 10 million gallons of oil into Prince William Sound in Alaska in 1989.

Current cleanup technologies — such as mechanical skimmers or membrane filters, which are maneuvered with boats and oil tankers — mainly remove oil from the surface but miss those denser droplets, Azwell says.

The tanker's fuel oil was whipped into an emulsion by strong waves, much as mayonnaise is whipped by an electric mixer.

Geeks of Doom was on hand for the «Pacific Rim» panel at which Guillermo Del Toro showed off a brand new trailer in which, «a 25 - story high Jaeger robot [dragged] an oil tanker behind it through the streets of Hong Kong, to use as a bat against a Kaiju, followed by a two - fist slap to the Kaiju's head.»

There are shots and scenes here that overwhelm with a sense of the kinetic, uncontrollable force of nature, as the stern section of a massive oil tanker, which has been ripped in two by the waves and a storm, is tossed around like a child's toy in a bathtub.

PHMSA continues to advance a rulemaking addressing the integrity of DOT Specification 111 tanker cars and the safe shipment by rail of flammable materials such as crude oil.

As a SAP you represent the major decision point (and in some cases the only decision point) an employer may have in choosing whether or not to place an employee behind the steering wheel of a school bus, in the cockpit of a plane, at the helm of an oil tanker, at the throttle of a train, in the engineer compartment of a subway car, or at the emergency control valves of a natural gas pipeline.

This led to large numbers of tankers loaded with oil sitting idle in ports acting as floating warehouses.

However, it does improve as we step move nearer the present with notable additions including Graham Sutherland's torpedoed oil tanker and Paul Nash's photographs of wrecked aircraft and rural decay.

Modern double hull oil tankers are not as susceptible to spills, but the many small ships (especially low budget, unlicensed ships) carrying goods of all types can and do run aground, causing smaller spills.

Perhaps, as May says, overturning «the current moratorium on oil tanker traffic on the B.C. coastline», and allowing huge Chinese tankers to use the «300 km of perilous navigation in highly energetic tidal conditions is a bad choice».

The local air district and Phillips 66 still refuse to provide any information regarding the details of the cause of the Sept. 2016 Yamuna Spirit spill, nor as to the source of oil intended to be delivered with the increased oil tanker traffic to the Phillips 66 SF Bay refinery.

Explorations in the South Atlantic near Cape Town, South Africa, in 1980 discovered pre-production plastic pellets and balls of tar known as «plasto - tarballs,» reportedly from the flushing of oil tankers into the sea.

As a result of a fuel tanker grounding and attendant oil spill in 2001, a consortium of energy companies from the G7, calling themselves e7 (created to bring renewable energy to developing nations), funded the installation of three wind turbines on San Cristobal, an island in the Galapagos archipelago, to minimize the amount of fuel that had to be delivered to run the generators.

But as Exxon knows through the Exxon Valdez oil spill, in which the oil tanker veered off course into a rocky reef while trying to avoid small icebergs in Alaska's Prince William Sound in 1989, the presence of even a little ice makes navigation treacherous.

«They spent so much money and they were the only company that did this kind of research as far as I know,» Edward Garvey, who was a key researcher on Exxon's oil tanker project, said in a recent interview with InsideClimate News and Frontline.

In this case, if the Keystone XL is not built, the oil will be transported by other means such as rail, barge, and tanker.

Some measures reportedly discussed at the meeting with energy firms seem an obvious improvement, such as restricting the number, age, or load size of tankers or requiring more insurance to be bought by the companies that transport 145 million tons of hazardous substances — about two - thirds of it oil — through the straits each year.

For me Wind Power is as ridiculous as putting sails on 300.000 ton Super Tankers to off - set 4 % bunker oil by WIND Power.

-- LMAA Arbitrations as sole counsel: Two recent LMAA arbitrations as sole counsel concerning the time chartering of oil tankers and issues relating to tank cleaning, vessel condition, speed and performance, the operation of off - hire clauses and repudiatory breach.

In our roles as global citizens, it's our responsibility to speak up against the risks from Kinder Morgan's proposed pipeline and oil tankers.»

Popular Vancouver - based recording artist Dan Mangan on the choices facing British Columbians as Kinder Morgan plans to dramatically ramp up oil tanker traffic through Vancouver.

This will include tankers known as very large crude carriers (VLCCs) which have a capacity of 2 million barrels of oil or more each.

Since the recent federal election there has been much discussion (and as my colleague Eugene Kung notes, an abundance of open letters) about the Liberal party's election promise to «review Canada's environmental assessment (EA) processes and introduce new, fair processes» for reviewing projects (or re-reviewing them, as in the case of major proposals like the controversial Kinder Morgan and Energy East oil sands pipeline and tankers projects).

As an example, Vitol made good use of the «Overseas Laura Lynn», a 380m tanker vessel with a hold capacity of 3 million barrels of oil ready for storage.

The proposed Act would prohibit tankers with a specific amount of crude or persistent oil as cargo — 12,500 metric tonnes of oil...

Philly Naval Ship Yard — Oil Tanker Construction — Served as shipyard manager.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: ENGINEERING: • About twenty (20) years as a Marine Engineer work at IRISL, and more than 120 months Sea Service • About a few months as a Marine Superintendent & Handle 3 Oil / Chemical Tanker (Motor Tanker / Vessel PAGAS / Motor Tanker / Vessel TABUK / Motor Tanker / Vessel MENA), familiar With Documentation / Certificates such as Flag / Class • More than 7 months experience as a Chief Engineer On Oil / Chem...

CALGARY, Feb 18 (Reuters)- Canadian Pacific Railway Co, the country's second - biggest rail operator, is considering what to do with C$ 2 billion ($ 1.83 billion) in surplus real estate, its chief executive said on Tuesday as he defended plans to impose a surcharge on oil tankers he considers unsafe.