Sentences with phrase «carried by barges»
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.
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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.
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).
«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.
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.