Sentences with phrase «like oil terminals»

The tribe has taken the lead against local projects like oil terminals that would further climate change and threaten its existence.

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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.

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.

Residents of the Pacific Northwest have long been a bulwark against coal and oil corporations, defeating destructive mega-projects like the Gateway Pacific coal terminal in Whatcom County, Washington and the Waterside Energy oil refinery in Longview, Washington.

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.

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.

Instead, global traders will literally buy future oil by the boatload, then book terminal time at any deepwater ocean port like the LOOP, anywhere in the world, to embark with two million barrels in a single cargo.