Sentences with phrase «of oil train»

Because of the danger of oil train accidents locally and climate change globally, creative businesses are looking for alternatives to fossil fuels and their dirty pollution.

They also say pipelines are a safer method of transporting oil than trains, pointing to recent cases of oil train derailments.

Keith Stewart, a climate and energy campaigner with Greenpeace Canada who has examined the increased use of oil trains, criticized railways in Canada and the United States for continuing to use older oil tank cars that he said were found to be unsafe more than 20 years ago.

In mid-August, on the day before Enck was to meet with residents concerned that the state had not done enough to address the issue of oil trains and industrial pollution at public housing near the Port of Albany, the state announced it would devote hundreds of thousands of dollars in investment for the area and step up enforcement of rules regulating diesel trucks.

And while rail transport typically falls under federal purview, the decision by the Cuomo administration reflects an increasing state interest in rail cargo, as the number of oil trains has grown from 10,000 a year to more than 400,000 carloads transported last year.

Albany County Executive Dan McCoy has been a staunch opponent of oil trains.

The administration has hired additional inspectors and stepped up inspections of oil trains and rail tracks and has sent letters to federal officials asking for stronger restrictions on oil trains.

The new critique comes almost a week after it was revealed that the EPA had accused Global Companies, which operates a train terminal at the Port of Albany, of violating air pollution standards regarding emissions from the dozens of oil trains that come through there each week.

Not exact matches

There have been a number of high - profile derailments of trains — including one by UP — carrying shale oil, much of which is produced in new drilling areas without established pipeline networks and must be moved by rail.

But that sheer volume of trains bearing oil raises the risk of a recurrence, Tahmazian says.

Fire crews have extinguished a fire that raged in Oregon after a Union Pacific Corp train carrying crude oil derailed on Friday and burst into flames near the Columbia River in the town of Mosier., the Federal Rail Administration said.

The crude oil trade was largely responsible for turning around the fortunes of the Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway, which owned the train that was eastbound through Lac - Mégantic.

Train tracks and tanker cars weren't built to accommodate trains carrying loads of heavy crude oil, making the trains more likely to derail.

High school graduates can work as on - shore oil and gas well drillers or well servicers once they complete three to months of formal on - the - job training.

«If the oil price is going down, it's very difficult to stand in front of that speeding train and hope you are in the one or two stocks that aren't highly correlated with the downward movement,» says Randy Ollenberger, an analyst with BMO Capital Markets.

That's despite the fact premiers Christy Clark and Alison Redford, in a backgrounder to their recent agreement on the ground rules for building pipelines, warned that oil may end up crossing B.C. by train en route to Asia regardless of whether the Northern Gateway or Trans - Mountain Expansion projects go ahead.

When John Roth thinks back on the oil market of two years ago, a certain calamitous image comes to mind: «I liken it to pushing a freight train off the top of a hill,» says Roth, manager of the $ 3 billion Fidelity New Millennium Fund.

When I mention that Exxon Mobil (xom), the world's biggest publicly traded oil company, is known to have an impressive intelligence division (no doubt a decent training ground for U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, ex-CEO of Exxon), Gourley's eyes light up.

However, a truck can only carry 200 barrels of oil, compared with 60,000 barrels in one unit train, or nearly 600,000 per day on the Keystone Pipeline - the equivalent of 3,000 trucks.

That's why he's working with a Harvard - trained chemist to build a state - of - the - art extraction lab for making THC concentrate and developing edibles and other new products infused with THC oil.

But now Papa said the the best days are behind some of those fields after a period of low oil prices prompted drillers to train their rigs on their best acreage and deplete the most cost - efficient production.

Analysts at Canaccord Genuity said Monday the project's $ 5.3 - bilion northern leg «is no longer a necessity» for Canadian oil sands producers, thanks to the sudden rise of crude - carrying unit trains and rival pipeline schemes proposed by Enbridge Inc..

One of the largest accidental releases of oil in Alberta's history isn't a burst pipeline and it doesn't involve a train of tanker cars derailing into a river.

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.

He also supports the David Black Kitimat oil project with associated pipelines or train delivery and supertankers traversing the length of the dangerous Douglas Channel — with its submarine fault line that has already caused several tsunamis down the Channel.

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The derailment and explosions, which took place around 1:15 a.m. on Saturday, underscored a debate in the effort to transport North America's oil across long distances: is it safer and less environmentally destructive to move huge quantities of crude oil by train or by pipeline?

That accident left 47 people dead and released millions of litres of oil into the air, water and soil when the runaway train crashed in the small Quebec town.

«We have an explosion of tight oil production in Canada and the United States, and most of it is moving by train,» said Anthony Swift, a lawyer with the Natural Resources Defense Council in Washington.

Canada's oil sands producers, frustrated by a lack of pipeline capacity, are also turning to trains to ship their products.

Since the July 2013 Lac - Megantic fatal train disaster and other recent incidents involving oil by rail, Transport Canada has faced questions about whether it adequately addressed safety oversight concerns surrounding the transportation of dangerous cargo, which were repeatedly raised in internal audits.

The railway did not respond to further questions, but Reuters, quoting officials from the company, said the oil aboard the train had come from the Bakken oil fields of the Western United States.

Following the Lac - Megantic railway disaster, Raitt oversaw a series of new safety oversight measures, including restrictions on single - person crews and unattended trains, and improved tracking or labelling of dangerous oil products.

OTTAWA — An internal memorandum to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, prepared more than two years before the Lac - Megantic railway disaster, noted that oil shipments by train were on the verge of expanding by up to 20 times the volume.

As oil - sands output has grown, so has the number of train - loads of oil - and rail accidents.

Looking at the figures above I can not complain as my dividend train keeps chugging along churning out that passive income despite currency headwinds, economic headwinds, terror across the world, saber rattling from North Korea, Russian troops in Ukraine, The Nigerian delta under attack curbing the flow of oil, floods, earthquakes etc. etc..

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Conjuring images of the old American West is not hard to do: the empty plain and the big sky, the wagon train, cowboys versus Indians, the gold - crazed forty - niner or the oil baron, probably corrupt, in search of a financial bonanza.

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Fish oil: These supplements can improve your heart and brain health, and according to research in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, boost your body's muscle - building response to strength training.

I used Viridian's joint oil during marathon training, it's a blend of seed oils as well as anti-inflammatory spices like ginger, turmeric and chillies, and antioxidants like raspberry, cranberry and pomegranate.

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Coconut oil and avocados are two of the best calorie rich foods because they are full of good fats that help train our body to make healthy cells and enhance our hormones.

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I trained in fine art at the Manchester School of Art, where I did a BA (hons) specialising in oil painting.

@blip: For an analogy, say you win the lottery (IOW find you have a lot of oil) when you're just out of high school, so you don't bother with college or vocational training, but spend your lottery money on partying (IOW socialist programs).

Carolyn McLaughlin, the president of the Albany Common Council and the Albany County Democratic Committee chair, seconded the nomination by noting Schumer's work on behalf of Henry Johnson, a World War I veteran, and in cracking down on oil trains that run next to Albany's public housing.

Meanwhile, following renewed attacks on oil platforms and gas pipelines in the Niger Delta, the Nigerian Navy, yesterday, commenced modalities to train its officers and ratings in the use of un-manned maritime vessels, UMVs, as well as un-manned aerial vessels, UAVs, to be incorporated soon into its operations.

Train of thought I was on the tube fairly late one evening, when a fairly well - oiled member of the House of Lords got on with some friends.

ALBANY — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has been at odds with Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration over a number of high - profile issues in recent years, including a Tappan Zee bridge construction loan, oil trains in the Port of Albany and the cleanup of the Hudson River.