Sentences with phrase «carry tar»

Washington, DC — This morning, Senator Bernie Sanders (I - VT) added his voice to the growing opposition to the Keystone XL, a 1,700 mile pipeline that would carry tar sands oil from Canada to refineries on the Gulf of Mexico.

If constructed, the pipeline would carry tar sands crude all the way from Alberta, Canada, to refineries on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico.

The proposed pipeline would carry tar sands oil through two Indian reservations.

As to the controversial Keystone Pipeline, which would carry tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada to the Gulf Coast, Obama said that the pipeline would not be approved if it worsens climate change: «our national interest will be served only if this project does not significantly exacerbate the problem of carbon pollution.»

The heavily debated northern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline, designed to carry tar sands oil from the Canadian border into Nebraska, is awaiting a yes - or - no decision from President Barack Obama.

Keystone XL will carry tar sands oil, which is potentially more corrosive and difficult to clean up than regular crude oil, according NPR.

This portion will carry tar sands oil from Hardisty, Alberta, to Cushing, Oklahoma, where other pipelines will transport it to Gulf of Mexico refineries and ports.

One pipe would carry tar sands - produced petroleum from Edmonton to Kitimat, where it would then be transported to tankers.

On October 11th, 2016, five climate activists shut down every pipeline carrying tar sands crude from Canada to the United States.

If the Silvertip pipeline carried tar sands oil, its corrosive properties could have been a factor in causing the Yellowstone spill.

In effort to bring attention to the threat posed by supertanker carrying tar sands oil from Vancouver, ForestEthics has launched a new tool called TarSandsSOS that lets citizens track supertankers hauling tar sands oil along the Pacific coast in real time.

On October 11th, 2016, five climate activists shut down every pipeline carrying tar sands crude from Canada to the United States.

Not exact matches

Today is, not coincidentally, the 21st anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, and on the heels of the ad came an announcement from the Coastal First Nations (an alliance of nine nations from the central coast to Haida Gwaii) declaring that»... in upholding our ancestral laws, rights and responsibilities... oil tankers carrying crude oil from the Alberta Tar Sands will not be allowed to transit our lands and waters.»

«The pipeline would carry over 500,000 barrels of raw tar sands crude each day.

In the coming months, TransCanada will likely receive a green light to build the final leg of its Keystone pipeline network, which would carry Canadian tar sands to Gulf of Mexico refineries.

Don't blame the results on the fans who have been more loyal than you will find at any other big club where Wenger would have been carried out of town in tar and feathers 10 years ago.

Since 2003 all cigarette products must carry large warning labels and companies are banned from describing cigarettes as low tar.

A key decision to look out for is whether Obama says no to the Keystone XL pipeline, intended to carry oil from Canada's tar sands to the US.

The Canadian energy company TransCanada wants to build Keystone XL to carry oil from the tar sands of Alberta, Canada, to Nebraska.

There it would link to existing pipes, to carry oil from Canada's tar sands to refineries on the US's Gulf of Mexico coast.

Somehow and someway we move, we carry on, we persevere - even though, in times such as these, it feels like we are swimming through tar, barely able to keep our heads above the blackness.

They carry everything from rough metal spikes to tar and feathers.

But on the Keystone XL pipeline — which, if not blocked by President Obama, would carry the crudest form of oil from Canadian tar sand deposits to Gulf Coast fuel refineries — it seems there's little room for varied stances, at least according to some protesters.

The EPA now says there is no more danger of further oil spilling from the ruptured pipeline under the Yellowstone River, but several big questions remain — especially considering that ExxonMobil now says that tar sands oil routinely was carried by the

This underestimation carries over from the TAR models (see Rahmstorf et al. 2007 and the Figure below)-- this is not surprising, since the new models give essentially the same results as the old models, as discussed above.

The EPA now says there is no more danger of further oil spilling from the ruptured pipeline under the Yellowstone River, but several big questions remain — especially considering that ExxonMobil now says that tar sands oil routinely was carried by the Silvertip pipeline.

The spill comes at an inopportune time for the industry, as it lobbies hard for approval of the controversial Keystone XL oil sands pipeline that would carry Canadian dilbit from the tar sand region to Texas refineries on the Gulf Coast.

Noticeably unmentioned in the speech was the Keystone XL pipeline that would carry oil from Canadian tar sands to the refining centers of Texas.

The Keystone pipeline just spilled 210,000 gallons of toxic tar sands oil in South Dakota — and President Trump and his oil industry allies are still pushing ahead with the bigger, riskier proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline that would carry 830,000 barrels of tar sands oil per day through America's heartland.

Designed to carry crude oil from Canadian tar sands to the refining centers of Texas, the pipeline would bisect North America, from Alberta to the Gulf of Mexico.

Climate activists have rallied in opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline, the controversial project to carry oil from tar sands in western Canada south to refineries in the Gulf of Mexico.

Like the 2013 historic floods in Calgary that forced the head offices of the oil companies mining the Alberta tar sands to go dark and send their employees home, while a train carrying flammable petroleum products teetered on the edge of a disintegrating rail bridge.

Keystone XL is a proposed oil pipeline owned by TransCanada that would carry toxic tar sands crude oil from deposits in Alberta, Canada to refineries along the U.S. Gulf Coast.

After years of fighting, Energy East pipeline — the largest proposed tar sands pipeline ever, which would have carried 1.1 million barrels of tar sands oil per day — is officially canceled.

Grand Chief Serge Simon of the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake said, «On behalf of the Treaty Alliance Against Tar Sands Expansion, we thank these organizations for showing leadership in heeding the call of the Mazaska Talks campaign to divest from the banks responsible for DAPL and the four pipelines being proposed to carry even more tar sands oil out of CanaTar Sands Expansion, we thank these organizations for showing leadership in heeding the call of the Mazaska Talks campaign to divest from the banks responsible for DAPL and the four pipelines being proposed to carry even more tar sands oil out of Canatar sands oil out of Canada.

«The bountiful and globally significant coastline can not bear an oil spill... we declare that oil tankers carrying crude oil from the Alberta Tar Sands will not be allowed to transit our lands and waters.»

The spill presented a unique cleanup challenge, because 6B was carrying bitumen, a thick crude oil mined from Canada's tar sands region that is thinned with a cocktail of liquid chemicals to form diluted bitumen, or dilbit.

It is also home to several pipelines carrying fossil fuels from Canada to Texas, and is the site of the largest inland oil pipeline spill in U.S. history, the 1 - million barrel tar sands crude leak along the Kalamazoo River in 2010.

Such a reduction is more than 10 times as great as the carbon content of tar sands oil carried by the proposed Keystone XL pipeline (830,000 barrels / day)[242].

Environmental group Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) notes that pipelines in the upper Midwest that routinely carry oil from tar sands have spilled 3.6 times more oil per pipeline mile than the U.S. average.

Like the Pegasus Pipeline that doused Mayflower in crude, the Eastern Mainline Pipeline was built in the 1950s, and would carry a substance (tar sands crude) thicker than the material for which it was originally designed.

«What it's carrying is oil that is produced in Alberta, Canada's tar sands, or sometimes called the oil sands region.»

The oil poured out of rupture in an ExxonMobil pipeline that was carrying Canadian tar sands crude.

According to the Council of Canadians» primer on the subject, TransCanada wants to convert its Eastern Mainline pipeline, which currently transports natural gas and is operating at half capacity, into an tar sands oil pipeline that could carry eastward up to 850,000 barrels per day.

It carries the assessment that climate change has risen up the political agenda sufficiently far that he (and his party) must avoid being tarred by the «denial» label.

To put this in perspective, the Keystone XL pipeline would carry up to 830,000 barrels of heavy tar sands oil per day (303 million barrels / year), enough to supply the energy for over 38 million cars, or the equivalent of 1.8 QBtu annually.

Seven years ago, Exxon Mobil won approval from the government to reverse that flow and link up with pipelines owned by Enbridge and the Koch brothers to carry Canadian tar sands crude south.

The only independent study conducted on the tar sands pipeline job creation prospects was carried out by Cornell Univeristy — and they found only 500-1400 jobs would be generated by the project, and that most would be temporary.

The wind might finally be at the back of the landowners and environmentalists who for years have warned that the pipeline, which will carry bitumen from Canada's carbon bomb known as the tar sands, is a threat to fresh water supplies and the climate.

They didn't discover until more than a week later that the ruptured pipeline had been carrying diluted bitumen, also known as dilbit, from Canada's tar sands region.