Sentences with phrase «increased oil barges»

Protect Puget Sound from increased oil barges and other vessels from the Kinder Morgan Pipeline

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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).

Mr. Sullivan's letter to Secretary Johnson describes how the new anchorages could provide targets for terror attacks — two are located within three miles of the Indian Point nuclear plant — and that increased traffic of barges filled with crude oil and other hazardous materials raises the potential for collisions and spills, «which in the tidal Hudson would be difficult, if not impossible, to clean up without incurring immediate and long - term damage to drinking water resources and prime wildlife habitat.»