Sentences with phrase «controversial pipeline construction»

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Six environmental groups on Thursday filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration in a federal court in Montana to challenge its decision to approve construction of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline.

Interprovincial pipeline construction projects are proving to be hugely controversial, whether those projects are greenfield projects (such as Northern Gateway), expansion projects (such as the TM project), line reversal projects (such as Enbridge's Line 9) or re-purposing projects (such as TransCanada's Energy East).

Less than a week after construction began on the controversial Bayou Bridge pipeline in Louisiana, a coalition of crawfishers and environmental groups took legal steps to immediately shut down the project.

Just this week, Trump signed executive orders to proceed with the controversial Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines, emphasizing that the steel to be used in their construction will be American - made.

A New York State Assemblyman says he arranged for bus transportation for those who want to join in opposing a controversial water pipeline construction project in Orange County.

Victories were seen on four continents: in Bolivia a draconian response to protestors embarrassed the government, causing them to drop plans to build a road through Tipnis, an indigenous Amazonian reserve; in Myanmar, a nation not known for bowing to public demands, large protests pushed the government to cancel a massive Chinese hydroelectric project; in Borneo a three - year struggle to stop the construction of a coal plant on the coast of the Coral Triangle ended in victory for activists; in Britain plans to privatize forests created such a public outcry that the government not only pulled back but also apologized; and in the U.S. civil disobedience and massive marches pressured the Obama Administration to delay a decision on the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, which would bring tar sands from Canada to a global market.

Evan Vokes is a former employee of TransCanada, the Canadian company that intends to build the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, and warns that faulty construction means the pipeline will likely leak.

As local opposition against the highly controversial Trans Mountain pipeline in Canada continues to grow, pipeline construction passed another legal hurdle after the federal Court of Appeal ruled against the government of British Colombia's latest legal challenge.