Sentences with phrase «because pipeline construction»

Railroad carriers are booking strong profits because pipeline construction is not keeping up with demand.

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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.

A draft environmental impact study released by the department in March concluded construction of the pipeline would not add to greenhouse gas emissions because the oil would find other ways to market regardless of Keystone XL's fate.

Trudeau must act because last Sunday, Kinder Morgan announced that it was suspending construction work on its pipeline from Edmonton to Burnaby because of «extraordinary political risks that are completely outside of our control and that could prevent completion of the project.»

The gas projects have encountered somewhat less opposition, in part because of the perceived lower environmental damage from a gas pipeline or tanker accident, but also because the economic fundamentals of gas exports provide more benefits to the local economy because much of the gas will come from BC fields and the need for construction and operation of LNG facilities on the coast.

Hundreds of people have been camping out and standing against the construction of the pipeline, according to reports, because they think the whole project poses a major environmental threat to the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and its cultural sites.

Natural gas power plants are replacing nuclear and coal - fired power plants where there is pipeline capacity, but proponents of a carbon - free grid are already attempting to prevent the construction of natural gas power plants because they use methane, a GHG, and emit CO2.

Obama's halt to the pipeline came despite a judge ruling in favor of the pipeline and against the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and other opponents, who wanted construction halted because they claim there may be possible contamination of drinking water and disruption to culturally important sites.

After the Dakota Access pipeline was approved, permitted, and under construction, the Obama Administration halted its construction because the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and its supporters claimed the pipeline threatened the drinking water and their cultural sites.

Each participated because they fear that the construction of the tar sands pipeline will destroy their homes and communities, some of them quite literally — TransCanada, the company behind Keystone, has instituted eminent domain to seize citizens» homes.

So when Dix nixed expansion of the Kinder Morgan pipeline that ships oil from Edmonton to Burnaby, B.C., ostensibly because of environmental concerns (and to win back environmental New Democrats who were leaking — if not gushing — into the Green camp), his campaign may have run aground, and his comments may have angered members of the B.C. and Yukon Territories Building and Construction Trades Council, who were counting on the union jobs that the project would create.

That's because of deteriorating conditions in the Windy City, including declining rental rates and an active construction pipeline.