Sentences with phrase «oil bomb trains»
Howie Hawkins said today that he endorsed the protest by PAUSE, Green Party of NY and others at the Governor's mansion in opposition to the oil bomb trains in NY, especially in the South End of Albany.
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The South End of Albany, as well as neighborhoods in Cohoes located near the «bomb» trains carrying Bakken crude oil still suffer from asthma, bronchitis and multiple cases of cancer that residents attribute to the air pollution.
It is time to not only ban fracking, but halt new investments in fossil fuels and related infrastructure, including pipelines, gas - fired power plants, fracking waste dumps, fossil fuel storage depots in the salt caverns by Seneca Lake, LNG exports at Port Ambrose, crude oil «bomb trains,» and a tar sands oil heater at the Port of Albany.
«Because of a regulatory loophole, these trains can carry crude oil through some of our most densely populated areas without any limit on explosiveness or flammability — creating ticking time bombs that jeopardize the safety of countless New Yorkers and Americans,» Schneiderman said in a statement.
The Green Party opposes the petroleum «bomb trains» transporting highly explosive crude oil from North Dakota through local communities, including Catskill.
Hawkins Calls for Moratorium on Oil Shipment by Rail and No Tar Sands Oil in New York Until Moratorium, NY Residents Have a Right to Know Details of Bakken and other Oil Shipments (Syracuse, NY) At a vigil in Syracuse to observe the one year anniversary of the 47 residents killed in Lac Megantic, Canada by a derailment of a «bomb train,» Howie Hawkins said that New York State residents have a right to know about the details of similar shipments here in New York.
He supports a halt to the crude oil «bomb» trains that increasingly traverse NYS.
I want a moratorium on crude oil «bomb» trains through New York State for safety reasons.