Sentences with phrase «carries oil barge»
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.