Sentences with phrase «more oil pipelines»

This lack of regulatory review, the use of aging and unsafe rail cars and transporting dangerous cargo through densely populated areas is certainly cause for concern, but as I've written here before, the problems with rail transport are not therefore good reasons for more oil pipelines.

Working for oil company front groups is one thing, but using the tragedy still unfolding in Quebec to argue for more oil pipelines is a whole new level of low.

Wildrose MLAs will likely focus their energy attacking the carbon levy and calling for more oil pipelines, but will the official opposition defy the radical climate change deniers in their own ranks and present a policy alternative to the NDP's Climate Leadership Plan?

The President's speech and its affirmation of the Alberta's government's climate change policies is likely the type of «social license «that Ms. Notley hopes will lead to more oil pipeline construction approvals in the future.

Maybe when Pryor talks about how many jobs will be created by building more oil pipeline, they are referring to the emergency clean up crews that are needed when these things inevitably break and create environmental disasters.

Not exact matches

Prime Minister Stephen Harper lent support to the 1,200 - kilometre, $ 6 - billion pipeline that would carry more than 500,000 barrels a day of crude oil from Edmonton through the Rockies to Kitimat, B.C., where it could be transported by tanker to markets in the U.S. and Asia, including China.

This is further evidence, he argues, of the need for pipelines to more safely move Canadian oil.

Environmental advocates have lately been arguing the numbers don't really add up for more pipelines, based on slower growth in Asia and worldwide trends bending the curve downward on oil demand.

«This decision clearly flies in the face of volumes of scientific evidence that shows the Keystone XL pipeline would be safe, enhance environmental standards, and be a more cost - effective alternative to importing oil from overseas,» said Michael Whatley of the Consumer Energy Alliance, which advocates for the energy industry.

The companies say the pipeline would carry Bakken shale oil more cheaply and safely from North Dakota to Illinois en route to U.S. Gulf Coast refineries than it could be shipped by railroad or tanker trucks.

Both pipelines face two forms of opposition: widely dispersed environmentalists worried about climate change, and stakeholders along the route more concerned about oil spills.

The only options for Canada's oil producers are the Trans Mountain expansion, which will triple the line's existing capacity from 300,000 to 890,000 bpd, taking Alberta to Canada's Pacific Coast and Enbridge's Line 3 expansion to Wisconsin, which will boost the pipeline's capacity and is much more likely to move forward.

On April 29, more than 28,000 barrels of crude oil sprang from the Rainbow pipeline in Alberta and gushed into the boreal forest and nearby marsh.

Adding to their fury is the spill from the Keystone pipeline just last week, which saw more than 200,000 barrels of oil spill from the pipeline in South Dakota, shuttering a large section of the conduit for days.

TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline would carry more than 800,000 barrels of oil a day from Alberta and the U.S. Bakken oil field across six U.S. states to refineries in the Texas Gulf Coast.

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.

So is scrutiny of ExxonMobil and the U.S. pipeline authority, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA): the ruptured pipeline had been installed in the late 1940s, and ran through a densely populated area, yet it was transporting heavy crude, which might be more hazardous than regular oil.

Under former president Barack Obama, Transcanada Corp's Keystone XL oil pipeline was rejected in 2015 after environmentalists campaigned against the project for more than seven years.

The array of claims around Alberta's crude is wide and varied: on the one hand, anti-Keystone groups contend that dilbit — i.e. diluted bitumen, thick oilsand crude mixed with light hydrocarbons that will allow it to flow through a pipeline — is more corrosive than other types of oil and sinks in water rather than floating, which makes it harder to clean rivers and lakes after a spill.

With approval of the Keystone Pipeline it could mean more Canadian crude oil is coming to the U.S. CNBC's Jackie DeAngelis is in Nebraska, at the pipeline pumping station with a look at its impact on oil prices and exports.

Crude - by - rail shipments are expected to ramp up in the second half of this year and into the first half of next year to «very material volumes of oil,» Pourbaix said, adding price discounts will improve but will likely remain higher than usual because rail costs more than pipeline transport.

CNBC's Jackie DeAngelis reports on pipeline companies working to build out infrastructure within our borders that could move more oil than Keystone.

«We know that the alternative to a new pipeline would be more oil by rail, more oil by trucks.

The pipeline operator has more than 84,000 miles of pipelines that transport natural gas, gasoline, and crude oil in the U.S. and Canada.

With nearly 2.5 million miles of oil, gas and chemical pipelines crisscrossing the country, intrusions into control systems could do more than disrupt deliveries, said Andrew R. Lee, a cybersecurity expert at the law firm Jones Walker in New Orleans.

But the prime minister may take more of the 180 days allowed to ponder assent of the Northern Gateway oil pipeline than his supporters in the oilpatch expect.

The costs of the discount are increasing as delays continue for all three major proposed oil pipelines to export more oil from Western Canada, including Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain expansion, Enbridge's Line 3 replacement, and TransCanada's Keystone XL.

Would they rather see Alberta's oil move by pipeline or by rail, the much more environmentally hazardous Option B?

«There's a question of whether going along with the approval of the Northern Gateway pipeline will make LNG development in B.C. more challenging by angering First Nations so adamantly opposed to the oil sands pipeline,» said George Hoberg, a professor at the University of British Columbia's school of forestry and founder of UBCC350, a group pressing for action on greenhouse gas emissions.

Industry groups say the president's plan, which he's set to expand Tuesday, would raise prices on construction materials, making it more expensive to build oil pipelines, bridges, highways, homes, and schools.

And as if to make room for more foes in the federation, Kenney also hinted he could cut off oil exports to B.C. if Premier John Horgan, another New Democrat, takes action to block the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.

Opinions on pipelines are flowing around Canada more quickly than the oil.

The region's five natural gas pipelines are more explosive than oil pipelines, and — unlike oil — gas has no alternative mode of transport.

A sharp correction in oil prices is putting the debate around major pipeline projects, such as Keystone XL, into a more nuanced light.

In the event of an accident, Kinder Morgan has pledged to do no more than comply with federal laws, which stipulate that operators of a major oil pipeline in this country must have a minimum of $ 1 billion in financial resources available to cover liabilities related to a land spill.

With regard to oil exports, the product from Alberta has to be moved across B.C. (more pipelines needed) and shipped in tankers (more port construction) to Asia.

If we lose the fight to stop these pipelines then I would think the next line of attack would be to both make sure the liberals have such a bad image in people's minds they will not be re-elected, and more needs to be done to convince those believing oil and gas are a good thing that there are better alternatives.

You would think that the only source of employment in Alberta is oil — yet the clean energy sector provides more jobs than pipelines and doesn't contribute to exposure to poisons and toxins with the potential for long term damage to the environment.

The price gap between Canadian and world oil prices has shrunk as more oil has been loaded on to train cars and smaller pipeline projects in the US have helped siphon off the backlog of crude piling up in the Midwest.

According to its website, this is the «largest energy infrastructure in North America,» owning interest or operating more than 80,000 miles of pipelines that transport natural gas, crude oil and more.

Christy Clark and her BC Liberal party collected more than $ 771,000 in campaign donations from the Texas pipeline company and its oil patch backers.

As more pipelines are built to take oil to a coast, North American prices will continue to merge with global oil markets.

You'd never know from the fighting language used by the B.C. premier that the pipeline has been safely transporting oil through the province for more than 60 years.

By connecting land - locked oil deposits in Alberta and North Dakota with world markets, pipelines and railways aren't just letting industry pull more oil out of the ground — they're also connecting those oil flows to world prices.

Bitumen is more corrosive on pipelines and it is more toxic and more difficult to clean up than conventional oil.

Update re: pipelines and oil production «If there were no more pipeline expansions, I would have to slow down,» the Cenovus executive told The Globe and Mail's editorial board.»

Speaking in New York in May, Mr. Harper emphasized that the rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline would lead to an increase in oil sands shipments by rail, which he called «more environmentally challenging» than pipelines.

Accidents involving pipelines, Mr. Whittingham said, can be more difficult to detect and can release greater amounts of oil.

Over the last year, the solar industry added jobs twelve times faster than the rest of the economy, even more than the jobs created by the oil and gas extraction and pipeline sectors combined.

Above that point it is worth spending the money to dig out the oil and even ship it out by rail, which is more expensive than a pipeline.