Sentences with phrase «like oil pipelines»

The changes were requested by the oil and gas industry in the hopes that they'd expedite the approval of projects like oil pipelines and tankers, but they had an opposite effect.

What's more, under these new laws, citizen groups will likely be shut out of environmental reviews of big projects like oil pipelines.

We know solar power won't befoul our water like oil pipelines will.

Liberals have pledged to consider greenhouse gas impacts in approving major projects like oil pipelines — something the Conservatives opposed.

Not exact matches

Anti-Keystone groups like to argue that blocking the pipeline would choke oilsand development in Alberta, but a much more likely scenario is that the oil industry would simply look for alternative transport means.

& # 9660 Enbridge Canada's largest oil pipeline company sailed through the recession like a lifeboat for scared investors as it kept hiking its profits and dividends.

But that volatility, as Ghosh likes to note, is the upside of the integrated nature of the company, which gives it a continued hedge against the differential in world oil prices through its downstream and midstream assets — on the midstream side, Husky operates a 2,000 - kilometre crude - oil pipeline system, and its downstream operations include upgrading and refining crude oil, and marketing gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, asphalt and ethanol in Canada and the United States.

The finding contradicts arguments by some environmentalist groups that bitumen, the tar - like substance extracted from Alberta's oil patch, corrodes or clogs pipelines, increasing the risk of ruptures.

Like anyone along the route of proposed oil or gas pipelines, Rosinski was in a position where, had she not signed the agreement, her land would have been taken anyway by virtue of eminent domain — a right the government can assert to seize private property for public use.

To be certain, the opposition to projects like the Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry Alberta oil sands products to US markets, and the Northern Gateway pipeline, which would carry oil sands products to a new west coast terminal for export to Pacific markets, has caused delays and increased costs to proponents.

County Executive Hein's leadership on big environmental issues like fracking and oil and gas pipelines has been stellar, and he has also given his attention to the details of taking care of our more vulnerable populations, such as elders and veterans.

Now it's likely that President Obama's final years in office will be spent in part defending his plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions at power plants by one - third while addressing Republican priorities on conventional energy, like construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, in a legislature united under the GOP banner.

The Liberals have called for more stringent environmental reviews of new oil pipelines, which could affect proposals like TransCanada Corp.'s Energy East line.

At the same time, the big thaw will make getting the oil out more expensive — billions of dollars in infrastructure investments in pipelines, roads and the like will be damaged as the ground shifts beneath them.

For industries like oil and gas which rely on a sustainable pipeline of STEM talent, finding ways to inspire, attract and retain young people's interests in these critical subjects is an increasingly important part of their work.

The poles being white reflect heat which is why its critical that we do nt melt the poles more or have black roads) this * is * causing more gloabal warming, white roads would be COOL literally helping to act like the poles... for those of you that understand this PLEASE help promote this idea and you can help now by coating your old tarmac drive with bonded white chippings, start a business doing it, easy cheap startup, loads of demand, you can make as much money doing this as you like, the demand is immense and will grow as the idea catches on) Going back to our oil scenario: These pipelines carry oil to fuel dirty inefficient engines machines that for their 15 year lifespan spew poison gases into our limited atmosphere.

With the current state of the Canadian economy and it's relationship to the price of oil, I think a practical example is that of an oil pipeline company like Enbridge.

It owns and operates pipelines and terminals that transport natural gas, gasoline, crude oil, carbon dioxide and other products and stores petroleum products, chemicals and handle bulk materials like ethanol, coal, petroleum coke and steel.

Finally, Enbridge Income Fund Holdings Inc. (TSX: ENF) owns thousands of miles of energy pipelines, shipping commodities like oil and gas across western Canada.

The production firms like Suncor Energy (NYSE: SU) located in the oil sands are clear winners from the pipeline construction.

JPMorgan likes Andeavor Logistics (ANDX, $ 48, 8.4 %), which operates oil and gas pipelines, processing facilities, and storage centers in the western and mid-continent regions.

MLPs as we know them today are primarily involved in the ownership of oil and gas assets, mostly pipelines, but they can also own things like oil refiners.

While Trump's stance on issues like the Keystone XL pipeline bodes well for the oil and gas industry, the risks posed by a U.S. - led slump in global trade would likely far outweigh the increased volumes of crude that would flow across the border into the Gulf of Mexico — especially at today's depressed prices.

Currently they are in conflict — U.S. foreign policy is focused on increasing global use of oil and gas via pipeline deals — Nabucco, Baku - Tiblisi, Chad - Cameroon, etc — all of which have large support from the US State Department and client agencies like the IMF and the World Bank.

Now environmental engineer John Stansbury has set out some scenarios which further detail how bad an oil spill would be with a higher capacity pipeline and just how often serious spills are likely to occur (hint, much more than operator TransCanada would like you to believe).

«An immense glacier - like mass of soil and rock is inching its way toward the Dalton Highway, threatening to cut off the only access road to the North Slope and putting the trans - Alaska oil pipeline at risk.

According to experts in the failure of oil and gas pipelines, there are a handful of factors that can contribute to a pipeline rupture, like the one on Exxon Mobil's Pegasus pipeline that spilled toxic diluted bitumen or dilbit from the Canadian tar sands into a Mayflower, Arkansas lake and subdivision.

According to experts in the failure of oil and gas pipelines, there are a handful of factors that can contribute to a pipeline rupture, like the one in Mayflower, Arkansas.

According to a thirty - year - old law in the US, diluted bitumen coming from the Alberta tar sands is not classified as oil, meaning pipeline operators planning to transport the corrosive substance across the US — with proposed pipelines like the Keystone XL — are exempt from paying into the federal Oil Spill Liability Trust Fuoil, meaning pipeline operators planning to transport the corrosive substance across the US — with proposed pipelines like the Keystone XL — are exempt from paying into the federal Oil Spill Liability Trust FuOil Spill Liability Trust Fund.

Here's the tweet from @exxonmobil sent in response to critics who pointed out that, because of a major loophole that needs to be closed, bitumen is not considered crude oil, and therefore tar sands pipeline operators like Exxon aren't required to pay into the oil spill cleanup fund.

«Beyond holding carbon - intensive projects like the Keystone pipeline accountable for their emissions, the president can do a lot more to cut oil use and the emissions it causes.

bitumen is not considered crude oil, and therefore tar sands pipeline operators like Exxon aren't required to pay into the oil spill cleanup fund

Thus, opponents contend, Canadian oil coming through the pipeline would displace little if any oil imported from unstable, undemocratic, or unfriendly countries like Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, or Venezuela.

Neither personality addressed the fact that the Keystone XL pipeline is specifically designed to transport heavy crude to refineries and export - bound oil tankers on the Gulf Coast, precisely the scenario that could lead to more spills like the one unfolding in Galveston Bay.

Yet while federal and international programs have encouraged companies to seek and curb methane emissions from gas and oil wells, pipelines and tanks, aggressive efforts like EnCana's are still far from the industry norm.

The full - time lobbyists out to block pipelines like Keystone XL are abusing the scientific data, Coane explains, by throwing around the emissions statistics for oil sands production and refining, without taking into account the more meaningful well - to - wheels analysis:

Two to three percent, as James Coan from the Baker Institute Energy Forum reminds us in a column for the trade publication FuelFix, is all the difference that Americans will see in their carbon footprint if they open up pipelines, like the pending Keystone XL, to the oil sands, instead of importing conflict oil from the oppressive and persecuting regimes of Saudi Arabia, Venezuela and Nigeria.

With projects like rail terminals, pipelines east and south, and other infrastructure underway to move oil sands, Keystone XL barrels would be far from marginal.

Fossil fuel power plants like oil, coal, and gas not only pollute but must have a constant delivery of fuel, which can be a challenge where transportation and pipeline infrastructure is underdeveloped.

If President Obama chooses the dirty needle (approves the Keystone XL pipeline) it is game over (for the earth's climate) because it will confirm that Obama was just greenwashing, like the other well — oiled coal — fired politicians with no real intention of solving the addiction (of fossil fuels).

In North Dakota, where oil drillers lack the equipment and pipelines to capture the gas that accompanies extraction of crude, the practice of flaring off the methane lights up some areas over the Bakken shale like big cities at night.

The Keystone XL Pipeline will give America energy independence, if there is ever a war in the Middle East our oil supply could be cut off, and with the XL we won't have that problem, 42,000 jobs will be created, 2 Billion paid to workers will give our treasury a boost, if we don't get approval Canada will sell the oil to China, they are our trading partners and our enemy, the pipeline will be a good thing for Americans, lower prices at the gas pump, and jobs for growth where as of now, we are not growing like we have in the past, just a few are against this but we have Millions of Americans who want it and they are more important than the few.

Building new infrastructure like the KXL pipeline, to lock the system into decades more of supporting development of a major new source of oil supply, would take the U.S. in the wrong direction.

«You can't cap it like a conventional oil well or turn off a valve on a pipeline.

The #NoDAPL movement has garnered national attention, much like the Keystone XL fight did, for creating a formidable opponent to the fossil fuel companies invested in transporting more oil and gas through their ever - expanding pipeline network.

Bitumen is so thick — about the consistency of peanut butter — that it doesn't flow from a well like the crude oil found in most of the nation's pipelines.

Like other pipeline projects, this one would create significant risk of oil spills, create few jobs, and provide little oil to Eastern Canada and do little to reduce our dependence on foreign oil, because most of it will be sold to the highest bidder and sent overseas.

Thank goodness environmental activists like Fred Felleman are fighting back, opposing plans for massive coal export facilities, seeking to block new LNG export terminals, and attempting to scuttle Keystone XL and TransMountain tar sands oil pipeline expansions.

A scathing government investigation into the devastating July 2010 oil spill near Marshall, Michigan found Enbridge, the Calgary - based company that owned the pipeline, handled their response like the «Keystone Cops.»

We ensure that never again can a company like BP take a tax deduction for money spent cleaning up its own mess in the Gulf of Mexico, and we close the loophole that lets tar sands oil pipeline operators avoid paying the oil spill cleanup tax.»