Sentences with phrase «oil pipeline construction»

The conflict over the oil pipeline construction in North Dakota was under the radar for a while but isn't anymore with recent celebrity and media attention.

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.

Not exact matches

Labor unions have pushed for approval of the pipeline, saying it would create thousands of construction jobs, while environmentalists opposed it because it would increase greenhouse gas emissions from Canada's oil sands.

Protesters have been buoyed by the recent success of Native American groups and environmentalists in their campaign against construction of the 1,100 - mile (1,770 - km) Dakota Access pipeline, a project spearheaded by Energy Transfer Partners (etp) that would carry oil from North Dakota's Bakken shale fields into Texas.

Protest group Climate Direct Action said the move was in support of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, which has protested the construction of a separate $ 3.7 billion pipeline carrying oil from North Dakota to the U.S. Gulf Coast over fears of potential damage to sacred land and water supplies.

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.

The report also counters warnings from environmentalists that the pipeline's construction would spur a huge increase in production from western Canada's tar sands, believed to be one of the biggest reserves of crude oil outside Saudi Arabia — unleashing torrents of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

A draft environmental impact study released by the department in March concluded construction of the pipeline would not add to greenhouse gas emissions because the oil would find other ways to market regardless of Keystone XL's fate.

Two previous arguments by the Standing Rock tribe - that the construction had threatened sacred sites, and that the presence of oil in the pipeline would damage sacred waters, had been rejected by the court.

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.

I think there is a substantial commercial and economic opportunity both in the construction of the pipeline and in the advantages of lower priced oil that would result from the pipeline for the United States and for Canada.

«The Achilles heel of the industry may be that people are very resistant to construction of necessary infrastructure,» stated the report, which was sponsored by half a dozen oil and gas companies and two law firms representing them and included a list of the type of people opposing pipelines and their motivations.

But a majority of Americans, Republican lawmakers and construction union members welcomed the prospect of boosting reliance on a firm U.S. ally for new supplies of the heavy crude, which would be shipped by a pipeline built largely in this country and processed at Gulf Coast refineries uniquely capable of dealing with the low - grade oil.

Viewed in one dimension, the standoff over construction of a 1,172 - mile, $ US 3.8 billion oil pipeline pits thousands of protesters massed on the prairie to safeguard a sole source of tribal drinking water from the fossil fuel industry and its allies in government and finance.

Canadian oil and gas companies and investors continue to face opposition on pipeline construction, reducing the ability to get petroleum products to market and reduce reliance on transportation by rail.

«It is our believes that, the 2017 national budget of the federal republic of Nigeria is not based on the crude oil production output from the Niger Delta but it is based on the newly found oil deposits in the North and the new pipelines construction from the Niger Republic,» the group stated.

Furthermore, one of the few positive legacies of Gadhafi's rule is his construction of extensive water and oil pipelines that link the provinces together.

The Republican - controlled Congress gave its final approval to a bill authorizing construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, setting up the first big veto fight with President Barack Obama.

The climate - changing juggernaut snuck back into town in November via a letter from the New York State Thruway Authority to all «involved agencies» (municipalities that lie along the Thruway, which is the chosen route to transport Bakken crude oil between Albany and the New Jersey refineries) requesting approval as lead agency in the environmental review required before construction of the pipeline can be approved.

Now it's likely that President Obama's final years in office will be spent in part defending his plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions at power plants by one - third while addressing Republican priorities on conventional energy, like construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, in a legislature united under the GOP banner.

Set in 2007 Iraq, «The Wall» opens on Taylor - Johnson's Sgt. Allen Isaac and Cena's Staff Sgt. Shane Matthews as the two are following up, from a distance, after an attack at an oil - pipeline construction site that has left four workers and two security contractors dead.

Hulking Staff Sergeant Matthews (John Cena) and his fellow soldier Isaac (Aaron Taylor - Johnson) have been perched and camouflaged on the side a hill for more than 20 hours as they carry out reconnaissance on the site of an under - construction oil pipeline.

Construction of the Keystone XL pipeline will improve the ability of producers to export south from the Canadian oil sands, across the U.S. border to Steele City, Nebraska.

The plays off of the pipeline construction are improved probability by the Canadian oil sands producers, a slight positive impact on Gulf Coast margins, and the construction and E&C companies involved.

The production firms like Suncor Energy (NYSE: SU) located in the oil sands are clear winners from the pipeline construction.

The Company provides a range of heavy construction and mining, piling and pipeline installation services to customers in the Canadian oil sands, mineral mining, commercial and public construction and conventional oil and gas markets.

President Barack Obama has decided not to authorize the construction of the Keystone XL 2 oil pipeline from Canada to Texas.

This new installation was inspired by the artist's involvement in the protests at Standing Rock — charting the connections between the international banking system and the construction of oil pipelines.

The pundits have successfully transformed the pipeline into a culture war issue, falsely meted out as «Oil from friendly neighbors and construction jobs = good, radical environmentalists who want to destroy the economy and freedom itself = bad».

The bill authorizes construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, the $ 7 billion shovel - ready project to deliver up to 830,000 barrels per day of Canadian crude oil to Midwest and Gulf Coast refineries.

The US State Department has issued a Presidential Permit to Enbridge Energy, Limited Partnership to enable construction of the Alberta Clipper pipeline for the transport of crude oil from the Canadian oil sands to US refineries.

In early 2016 in the midwestern United States, a diverse coalition of Native American tribes began to protest the construction of the Dakota Access underground oil pipeline that was an impending threat to their water supply and sacred sites.

As for those other setbacks for the oil and gas industry, in a moved that «stunned» supporters and opposers alike, last week the Federal Energy Regulatory Agency denied permission for the construction of a major natural gas export terminal and pipeline in Oregon.

The Democratic governor of Missouri, Jay Nixon, announced this week that he favors construction of the Keystone XL pipeline to bring crude from the Canadian oil sands and our own Bakken shale region to refineries along the Gulf Coast.

It is hard for most Americans to understand how it is contrary to the national interest to create 20,000 construction and manufacturing jobs, increase US gross domestic product by an estimated $ 350 billion, and bring 830,000 barrels of oil per day via pipeline from friend and neighbor Canada to Texas refineries.

Beyond a few thousand jobs during construction, new pipelines such as Trans Mountain probably wouldn't do much for new jobs (or new payroll taxes) either, since they would not spur significant new upstream investment at current crude oil prices.

Obama also addressed what has been perhaps the biggest issue of contention between his administration and climate activists: The pending decision whether to permit construction of the Keystone XL pipeline to transport larger volumes of oil from Canada's tar sands to the refining centers of Texas.

IHS CERA's new environmental assessment of the Keystone XL pipeline and pipeline - related oil sands development sends a pretty clear message to President Obama as he decides whether to approve the full project's construction: There's not a climate rationale for rejecting the pipeline — and along with it, tens of thousands of U.S. jobs, economic uplift and greater energy security.

On Thursday, June 16, API hosted bloggers for a conference call to discuss the economic benefits of oil sands development and the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.

While this project will threaten our groundwater, waterways, and general health, increase gas prices and world dependency on oil, and further forestall a necessary shift to a green economy (Read more: TransCanada: «Keystone XL National Security Risk»), President Obama is expediting pipeline construction and has remained mute on global warming.

The freight rail network in North America is being turned into a conduit for crude oil from the landlocked Canadian tar - sands and the Bakken Shale, as construction timelines and permitting decisions are awaited for new pipelines.

The Secretary shall define the term outer Continental Shelf oil and gas activities for purposes of this subparagraph to include, but not be limited to, construction of vessels, drillships, and platforms involved in exploration, production, and development on the outer Continental Shelf; support and supply bases, ports, and related activities; offices of geologists, geophysicists, engineers, and other professionals involved in support of exploration, production, and development of oil and gas on the outer Continental Shelf; pipelines and other means of transporting oil and gas production from the outer Continental Shelf; and processing and refining of oil and gas production from the outer Continental Shelf.

White House, environmentalists and U.S foundations seek to block all oil sands development, by Duggan Flanakin and Redmond Weissenberger Oilfield workers in Alberta, refinery workers in Texas and countless factory workers just learned that the White House will not allow construction of an oil pipeline that would bring over half a million barrels of oil -LSB-...]

Indeed, our analysis supports recent comments in the EPA's review of the State Department's final impact statement that, with oil prices in a sustained range of $ 65 - $ 75, «construction of the pipeline is projected to change the economics of oil sands development and result in increased oil sands production, and the accompanying greenhouse gas emissions, over what would otherwise occur» [2].

Late yesterday, an arm of the US government released a 2,000 - page report that concludes there are no good environmental reasons for preventing the construction of a pipeline intended to transfer oil from Western Canada to Texas.

The Dakota Access Pipeline is a $ 3.8 billion, 1,100 - mile oil pipeline under construction in the Upper Midwest that will move 470,000 to 570,000 barrels of oil per day from the Bakken basin in North Dakota to Illinois.

This would discourage government action like restricting oil and gas drilling, imposing pollution controls, limiting the use of fracking (hydraulic fracturing), or even stopping construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.

The provincial government has established, and maintains, strict conditions in order for British Columbia to consider the construction and operation of heavy - oil pipelines in the province.

Aşıcı also noted the damage being done at terminal points of existing pipelines, such as Ceyhan, Turkey, on the Baku - Tbilisi - Ceyhan oil pipeline, where he says construction of ports and thermal energy stations is polluting the environment.

In pushing for the Obama Administration's approval of TransCanada's proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, the North American oil industry and its political patrons argue that the pipeline is necessary for American energy security and its construction will help wean America of dependence on Mideast oil.