Sentences with phrase «oil by rail»

He opposed moving oil by pipeline, moving oil by rail (duh!)

But what makes transporting Canadian crude oil by rail attractive to investors?

As firefighters continue to fight the train fire and search for the 40 50 missing people, this explosion has already rekindled the debate over transporting oil by rail or by pipeline.

But that transporting oil by rail is more polluting than a pipeline is not a compelling argument for allowing the pipeline.

Ironically, two of the facilities that would handle oil by rail were originally built to supply renewable fuels.

Based on the initial description of this product, it appears that it could alleviate many of the risks involved with moving tar sands oil by rail.

Further, the pipeline would help the environment, because moving oil by pipeline produces 42 percent fewer emissions than transporting oil by rail, which is how the oil is being transported in lieu of the new pipeline.

Yet now that the pipeline application has been denied, the additional cost of transporting oil by rail costs would come into play.

Since 2010, transportation of crude oil by rail in North America has grown significantly from 23.8 million barrels to 318.8 million barrels in 2015.

Furthermore, the idea that pipelines are a safer alternative to rail is a false dichotomy — the oil industry does not intend to stop transporting oil by rail if they manage to force their pipeline through, as they hope to transport the oil by both pipeline and rail.

In the Good Yglesias category, we have «the spice must flow» problem in that stopping the Keystone XL pipeline and other pipeline - fighting as led to a boom in shipping oil by rail.

By one estimate, oil by rail in Canada has now reached 300,000 barrels per day, more than half of Keystone capacity: bit.ly / 13uK1xw

Total oil by rail volumes in California almost doubled in 4Q13 versus 3Q13 to 2.83 million barrels.

[3] See Association of American Railroads» (AAR) December 2013 paper «Moving Crude Oil by Rail», available online at: https://www.aar.org/keyissues/Documents/Background-Papers/Crude-oil-by-rail.pdf.

To further enhance emergency response efforts, DOT is also recommending that railroads continue to commit resources to develop specialized crude oil by rail training and tuition assistance program for local first responders.

The emergency meeting was held to evaluate and consider wide - ranging proposals to further enhance railroad safety including the safe shipment of crude oil by rail.

PHMSA and the Federal Railroad Administration have issued several safety advisories related to the safe transport of crude oil by rail, including the recent January 2 Safety Alert and is currently engaged in the ongoing rulemaking to improve the design of the DOT 111 tank car.

«Today we are raising the bar for shipping crude oil on behalf of the families and communities along rail lines nationwide — if you intend to move crude oil by rail, then you must test and classify the material appropriately,» said DOT Secretary Anthony Foxx.

Title: DOT Issues Emergency Order Requiring Stricter Standards to Transport Crude Oil by Rail Link: https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/dot-issues-emergency-order -...

The line would probably diminish the need to ship oil by rail to East Coast refiners, a trend under scrutiny since the derailment at Lac Megantic.

«We are the first to construct estimates of air pollution and greenhouse gas costs for movements of crude oil by rail and pipelines,» said Clay.

Using data of crude oil transported out of North Dakota in 2014, Muller says the team found «that air pollution and greenhouse gas costs of shipping crude oil by rail are much larger than spill and accident costs.»

66 actions have been implemented to strengthen standards, regulations and procedures to make the transport of crude oil by rail and water in New York safer, and to improve spill preparedness and response.

The Keene town board adopted a resolution of the board last Monday evening calling on the U.S. Department of Transportation, the US Environmental Protection Agency, the NY DOT and the NY DEC to impose a moratorium on transport of Bakken Crude Oil by rail from Montreal to Albany, until a comprehensive study determines the public health, safety, economic and environmental impacts of a derailment.

He said the pipeline would not reduce the controversial shipment of Bakken oil by rail or barge, adding that statistics from the Federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration showed that pipelines had a higher spill rate per mile than any other form of oil transportation.

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 memo, obtained by the federal Liberals, discussed economic factors surrounding the transportation of oil by rail, but didn't flag any safety concerns.

He actually vetoed the building of an oil by rail terminal in Vancouver Washington.

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

If you're in the oil transportation business, these are negative impacts, whether you move oil by rail or by pipeline.

But it turns out, no one is interested in transporting oil by rail across B.C. — or so says CN.

«Simply put, transporting oil by rail — or by any method — is a disaster waiting to happen.»

Not exact matches

As the North American oil transportation system continues to evolve, with new pipelines, reversals of existing lines and a growing role for oil - by - rail, what is clear is that the North American oil market will eventually settle into a new era of pricing relationships which will be very different than those which prevailed prior to 2008.

CALGARY, Alberta, May 2 - Alberta will hold talks with rail operators and oil producers aimed at smoothing the path to get more crude moving by rail to market amid a transportation bottleneck in the Western Canadian province, Alberta's energy minister said on Wednesday.

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.

While manufacturing has shown a little weakness, the biggest difference by far is in mining — and that's where the Oil patch weakness shows up, as well as coal and metals production for export (recall how awful rail and steel have been in the Weekly Indicators for the last 4 months).

«I'm really confident that as we move into the second half this year and into the first half of 2019, we're going to be seeing very material volumes of oil moving by rail,» he added.

Oil transportation by rail has grown astronomically, to about 140,000 carloads of crude in 2013 from 500 carloads in 2009, according to the Railway Association of Canada.

Railways, who added crude by rail capacity earlier this decade only to have the market vanish as pipeline space opened up, have been slow to move back in the oil transport business, asking producers to sign longer - term deals.

Since 2011, the rail industry has voluntarily adopted tougher safety standards for all new cars, but with literally only a handful of tank car - makers in North America and a huge boom in oil - by - rail shipments, demand far outstrips supply.

And with several of CP's business lines (notably oil shipments by rail) enjoying robust growth, the wind seems to be at his back.

McKenna also told Clinton that Canada is tripling the amount of oil that's transported by rail because of a lack of pipelines.

Canada's oil will be extracted and marketed regardless of Keystone, the report contended, and could be shipped to the U.S. by rail, which has higher emissions.

The transit costs of moving crude by rail from North Dakota across the country tips the balance in favor of foreign oil.

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.

This stance is interesting since the industry has recently been seen to downplay the role of new pipelines in enabling oilsands development given the rise of oil - by - rail.

The Paris - based IEA forecasts in its latest oil markets report that crude - by - rail exports will grow from 150,000 barrels a day in late 2017 to 250,000 barrels a day this year and then to 390,000 barrels a day in 2019.

Raitt's three - year timeline to fully dispose of older DOT - 111A tankers (and immediate phase - out of 5,000 of the most vulnerable cars) is going to be a difficult one to meet given the existing capacity for suppliers to build new tankers, as well as the desire of oil and gas companies to continue the exponential increases in oil - by - rail shipments into the future.

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

A company that supplies steel tubing to oil and gas companies in the Rocky Mountain region revolutionized the way the firm communicates information about inventory and supplies by networking storage yards along rail routes.