Sentences with phrase «barges carrying»

This enormous river is the second largest in the United States and is a main thoroughfare for barges carrying grain and other cargo.

Areas of the Hudson River could be made off limits to barges carrying crude oil and other petroleum products on the basis of the risk they may pose to critical fish and wildlife habitats, waterfront communities, drinking water infrastructure and navigation safety.

Feitosa also helped organize a protest in which community members linked their boats to barricade the mouth of a major river, blocking barges carrying illegal logs.

The first major achievement came in the form of a fleet of ocean barges carrying building materials that would later form the towns first construction project — The Gilded Iguana.

The plans include a floating dock, educational displays, and plantings of oats, barley and corn — crops that the canal barges carried.

A barge carrying 2.5 million gallons of gas ran aground in the Hudson River near the Rip Van Winkle Bridge in Catskill.

A barge carrying 2.5 million gallons of gasoline ran aground on the Hudson River near the coast of Dutchmen's Landing Park after veering off course and striking rocks this morning.

CATSKILL, N.Y. (AP)-- The U.S. Coast Guard and state pollution response teams are investigating the grounding of a barge carrying 66,000 barrels of gasoline on the Hudson River.

Last month they discussed ways to deal with the Lepse, a barge carrying 624 spent or damaged nuclear fuel assemblies, tied up at the Arctic port of Murmansk and in danger of sinking.

The landing barge carries one vehicle and a trailer at a time and takes approximately 15 minutes to cross the waters of South Passage.

When thick ice clogged the slough into Napaskiak, forcing the barge carrying a winter's worth of heating oil to turn back in October, people panicked.

Not exact matches

The operation would transfer coal from rail cars to barges, which would then carry it to nearby Texada Island where it would be loaded on ships and transported to Asia.

The GRIDCO boss however said they are awaiting some mechanical works being carried out on the barge to enable final transmission.

Chief Executive of GRIDCO, Engineer William Amuna in a Citi News interview said his outfit is ready to feed into the national grid with power generated by the barge since the various tests needed on the facility have been carried out.

Nor would these pipelines significantly reduce oil - carrying barge traffic on the Hudson River.

Many local towns and cities have expressed opposition to the project, citing the local dangers of pipeline leaks and wider implications of fracking (the oil bound for the Pilgrim Pipeline originates from the Bakken shale in North Dakota, the same deposits that have increased the volume of oil carried by trains and barges through the Hudson Valley to New Jersey refineries).

Barr said during the Village Board meeting that trains currently carrying potentially explosive materials along the edge of the village line do not come from Albany, and he disputed Pilgrim's claim about the amount of oil being carried by barges and how much petroleum traffic on the Hudson River goes to the same locations that would be served by the pipelines.

On average, two crude oil freight trains travel through Ulster County per day and each day one barge passes along the Hudson River between Dutchess and Ulster counties carrying more than 4 million gallons of oil.

«Governor Cuomo has taken bold and decisive action by signing into law legislation that protects the Hudson River from barges and tanker ships that carry dangerous petroleum - based products and other hazardous materials,» Ned Hudson, president of the environmental group Scenic Hudson, said Tuesday in a statement emailed to the media.

It would connect the Port of Albany, where a stepped - up flow of trains carrying Bakken crude oil from North Dakota currently hook up with barges destined for refineries in northern New Jersey.

Esopus officials say they are also concerned because the town already has railroad lines that carry hazardous materials through the town, as well as being bordered by the Hudson River, which carries oil barge traffic.

As a result, the ubiquitous barges plying the river no longer need human muscle to beat the flow and can carry more than three times as much weight — from 3,000 tons per ship to 10,000 tons of coal, cars and other goods.

There is already speculation of extra delays getting a special barge to carry us over the Nile on the border between Sudan and Egypt... and what hope of the Panda getting into Libya?

A twelve metre passenger barge licensed to carry 49 passengers and designed specifically for unparalleled access to the tidal waters of the Great Sandy Straits and the estuarine waterways around Fraser Island, DayTripper's expansive deck offers comfort and stability and safe boating for children.

The barge also has a detachable rudder, and Liam's accomplice carries it down the length of the barge to steer us home.

It offers no challenge, there is no puzzle to it, you just shoulder barge a block to carry on, so it merely wastes your time.

Earlier this week, a barge made its way up the Grand Canal carrying a very large and very precious cargo.

Barges are carrying old subway cars off the coast of Delaware to make a reef.

Without liquid fossil fuels there is no way to push or pull the barges that can carry goods up River to the communities along its shores.

The risk of transporting volatile materials via barge was made evident on April 4, 2017, when a vessel carrying 60,000 barrels of gasoline ran aground on the river's west side just offshore the Village of Catskill.

A single barge can carry 3,000 tons, enough to replace 100 trucks.

The chapel was loaded on to a horse - drawn wagon and transported to the Auckland waterfront, where it was then floated across the harbour on a barge and carried to the site.