Sentences with phrase «because rail transport»

In its most recent environmental review, the State Department is repeating its argument that the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline will have limited impact on greenhouse gas emissions because rail transport is an economically feasible alternative.

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McKenna also told Clinton that Canada is tripling the amount of oil that's transported by rail because of a lack of pipelines.

Crude - by - rail shipments are expected to ramp up in the second half of this year and into the first half of next year to «very material volumes of oil,» Pourbaix said, adding price discounts will improve but will likely remain higher than usual because rail costs more than pipeline transport.

However, I would have been obliged to resign from the commission at this point anyway because of the transport secretary's indefensible decision to bail out the Stagecoach / Virgin East Coast rail franchise.

Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin announced this afternoon that the UK Government is going to delay or cut back a number of modernisation projects planned for Network Rail because rising costs and missed targets make the # 38.5 bn plan untenable.

The case for HS2 has now descended into nothing but rhetoric with everything being chucked at the idea that it must be a good idea, because those three words «high speed rail» sound so much like they should be a good idea, or at least that's what Cameron thought when he picked up the time - bomb Lord Adonis left ticking in the Department for Transport.

Yesterday the Office of Rail Regulator watchdog ruled that Network Rail was in breach of its licence because of «poor performance and high levels of delays», prompting shadow transport secretary Maria Eagle to call for its corporate governance structure to be reformed.

But transporting oil from western Canada by pipeline is less expensive than shipping by rail, which requires specialized cars and / or specialized handling because of the very high viscosity of oil sands oil.

Further, the pipeline would help the environment, because moving oil by pipeline produces 42 percent fewer emissions than transporting oil by rail, which is how the oil is being transported in lieu of the new pipeline.

Ethanol is currently transported mainly by tanker truck or rail cars because it can not be shipped in existing gasoline pipelines.

And that the results may have been more disastrous because the rail and oil companies are not required to invest in the safest transport car technology available is wrong.

Stopping the Keystone XL pipeline is important not just because it will help stop future leaks that, judging from the track record of TransCanada's first pipeline, Keystone 1, as highlighted above, will be much larger than the spills we've seen from rail transport, but it also prevents a massive piece of essentially permanent fossil fuel infrastructure from being established that will no doubt push global warming past the point of no return, as the «terrifying math of global warming» makes startlingly clear.