Sentences with phrase «number of oil tankers»

One illustration of the present government's lack of joined up thinking on preventing terrorism is the large number of oil tankers that for the last year have been anchoring off the East Anglian coast as a result of a series of government decisions or more recently lack of decisions about them.

They don't want the number of oil tankers in the Burrard inlet to go up sevenfold and they are backing the legal challenges coming from three of the B.C. coastal nations.

Kinder Morgan also announced it would expand its Westridge Marine Terminal in Burnaby, B.C., which would raise the number of oil tankers visiting Vancouver harbour from 80 per year to one a day.

Just in time for the increased numbers of oil tankers taking advantage of the ice - free Arctic Ocean...; ^ -LRB-

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Imagine Google putting its image - recognition capabilities to work to identify and track all of the world's oil tankers, or count the number of cars in the parking lots of all the Walmarts in the United States, and making that information searchable via the Internet.

Whereas there have been a number of crude oil spills at sea, there has never been a major tanker spill involving dilbit.

Ulster County Executive Mike Hein, who was once the leading Democratic candidate for NY - 19, was joined by Zephyr Teachout, who IS the Democratic candidate in NY - 19, in speaking out against a plan that increase the number of large oil tankers that could be anchored on the Hudson River.

This led to large numbers of tankers loaded with oil sitting idle in ports acting as floating warehouses.

I oppose the Northern Gateway pipeline for a number of reasons, beginning with the fact that the project requires over-turning the current moratorium on oil tanker traffic on the British Columbia coastline.

Some measures reportedly discussed at the meeting with energy firms seem an obvious improvement, such as restricting the number, age, or load size of tankers or requiring more insurance to be bought by the companies that transport 145 million tons of hazardous substances — about two - thirds of it oil — through the straits each year.

The new pipeline would triple the amount of diluted bitumen transported through a seismically active area of the Southwest coast of British Columbia, double the oil storage tank capacity on Burnaby Mountain above heavily populated areas and dramatically increase the number of Aframax tankers required to ship the oil from Kinder Morgan's marine terminal through Burrard Inlet and coastal waters.

A number of First Nations have expressed serious concerns to the JRP about potential impacts to their rights from the project due to the pipeline, increased tanker traffic, and the risk of an oil spill that could devastate their traditional territories, waters and resources.