A small but stalwart band of environmentalists, student activists, farmers, and concerned citizens have knocked
the oil pipeline plans down a couple times, even hacked off a limb or two, but onward it staggers.
The author and campaigner hit national and international headlines earlier this year will his high - profile and vocal disapproval of the Keystone XL Pipeline, the $ 7billion, 1,700 mile
oil pipeline planned to run from Canada's tar sands to Texas.
Not exact matches
The Irvings had their hopes dashed in October when
plans were scrapped for the $ 15.7 - billion Energy East
pipeline, which would carry over a million barrels of
oil from Alberta to Saint John, N.B. every day, some of which would be processed at Irving Oil's refine
oil from Alberta to Saint John, N.B. every day, some of which would be processed at Irving
Oil's refine
Oil's refinery.
CALGARY, Alberta, May 2 - Suncor Energy Inc said on Wednesday that its current growth
plan is not constrained by
pipeline bottlenecks and it does not expect to make any further major investments in Canada's
oil sands until market access improves.
Later, on the sidelines of Suncor's annual general meeting, Williams said he hopes that «good sense and reason prevail» but added Suncor has a contingency
plan in case Alberta follows through with its
plan to restrict
oil or refined fuel exports through the existing Trans Mountain
pipeline to B.C.
As it is currently
planned the twin
pipeline will carry 525,000 barrels of bitumen a day from the
oil sands west to a terminal in Kitimat on the B.C. coast, where it could be shipped to Asian refineries, as well as refined
oil products used to dilute the bitumen flowing east.
CALGARY, Alberta, May 2 (Reuters)- Suncor Energy Inc said on Wednesday that its current growth
plan is not constrained by
pipeline bottlenecks and it does not expect to make any further major investments in Canada's
oil sands until market access improves.
According to MSNBC, the Secretary of the Army Corps of Engineers has told Standing Rock Sioux tribal leader David Archambault II that it will deny the easement that would allow an
oil pipeline to follow its currently
planned route under the Missouri River.
March 6, 2002: Calgary - based Enbridge (TSX: ENB) announces preliminary
plans for a
pipeline linking the Alberta
oil sands to the West Coast.
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.
But when the B.C. government announced this week
plans to bar increases to diluted bitumen (
oil sands crude) shipments while it launches a new panel study of spill research, the group Stand.earth advised Kinder Morgan investors to call their brokers because this will delay or permanently thwart the company's federally approved Trans Mountain
pipeline expansion.
By capping
oil - by - rail traffic in the province while the proposed panel goes over the spill science, the B.C. New Democrats squeeze off
pipelines and companies» backup shipping
plan.
Big
Oil is also acutely aware that a major new pipeline project is a critical piece of its huge expansion plans for the oil san
Oil is also acutely aware that a major new
pipeline project is a critical piece of its huge expansion
plans for the
oil san
oil sands.
Canada's energy industry is skeptical that major new
pipelines can be built in Canada unless the feds make it easier to win approval, and that gives
oil producers headaches about
planning for future production.
Provincial disputes over
plans to expand the capacity of the existing Trans Mountain
oil pipeline could have U.S. consequences, analysis shows.
Just as Albertans expected their political leaders to fight back when Trudeau - the - dad tried to force his National Energy
Plan on them in 1980, British Columbians expect our premier to fight to protect our province from bullies from across the Rockies trying to bisect British Columbia with an unwanted
pipeline to deliver toxic bitumen to Burnaby for export on
oil tankers.
An analysis of the
pipeline plan for the State Department concluded that if the
pipeline was rejected,
oil sands producers would instead turn to railways for shipments to the United States.
National Bank also highlighted that major maintenance initiatives are
planned at Syncrude Canada Ltd., Canadian Natural Resources Ltd.'s Athabasca
oil sands project and Suncor Energy Inc.'s base plant — which cumulatively could reduce industry
oil output by 650,000 barrels per day in the coming months, easing some of the stress on full
pipeline networks.
Wildrose MLAs will likely focus their energy attacking the carbon levy and calling for more
oil pipelines, but will the official opposition defy the radical climate change deniers in their own ranks and present a policy alternative to the NDP's Climate Leadership
Plan?
Despite the Notley government's Climate Leadership
Plan, disagreement over
oil pipelines has lead to a significant split between the Alberta NDP and its counterparts outside the province.
How can it be that blocking the Trans Mountain
pipeline expansion — which, if built, will almost assuredly increase the GHG emissions from Alberta's
oil sands — would undermine Canada's climate change
plan?
How else could he argue, as he did recently in a Maclean's opinion piece, that blocking the Trans Mountain
pipeline expansion — and along with it, increased GHG emissions from Alberta's
oil sands — would jeopardize Canada's climate change
plan and make it impossible to meet our emissions reduction target under the UN Paris Agreement?
Kathryn Harrison, «
Pipelines are not a reconciliation of Canada's environment and economy» Dogwood, «Trudeau's climate
plan: made for the
oil patch»
A
pipeline feasibility study on the possibility of transporting
oil from Kenya and Uganda — where Tullow has another operation — to the Indian Ocean is
planned.
The proposed
pipelines plan would use one
pipeline to take 200,000 gallons of Bakken crude
oil from Albany to Linden, N.J., and use a parallel
pipeline to return refined materials north.
Two companies that own
oil terminals in Albany denied any
plans to work with a developer seeking to build a controversial
pipeline from Albany to New Jersey.
With the green light from the federal government, the company building the Dakota Access
oil pipeline said it
plans to resume work immediately to finish the long - stalled project.
Objections to the
pipeline were raised by 17 of the 18 people who spoke for nearly 90 minutes at a Town Board meeting Wednesday about the
plan to pipe Bakkan crude
oil and refined gasoline, diesel and heating
oil close to or along the state Thruway corridor from Albany to New Jersey.
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.
In a surprise move, the president also weighed in on the controversial Keystone XL
pipeline,
planned to transport
oil from Canada's tar sands to refineries on the Gulf of Mexico — suggesting that it will go ahead only if it causes no increase in carbon emissions.
FACED with rising anger from environmentalists last year over his
plans for a transcontinental
pipeline to deliver treacly Canadian tar sands to Texas
oil refineries on the Gulf of Mexico, the CEO of TransCanada, Russ Girling, expressed surprise.
The
plan includes about 1,400 kilometers (870 miles) of new
pipeline, primarily in Quebec and New Brunswick, and new marine export terminals in both provinces, including one at Canaport in Saint John, New Brunswick, where TransCanada has formed a joint venture with privately owned Irving
Oil to build, own and operate a new deep water marine terminal.
CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters)- TransCanada Corp on Thursday said it would move ahead with Canada's largest - ever
pipeline, expanding the scale of its $ 12 billion
plan to ship
oil sands crude in the West to refiners on its east coast and beyond as its U.S. - bound Keystone XL line stalls in Washington.
The proposal is the latest in a series of
planned pipelines and expansion projects as a flood of crude from the
oil sands and the Bakken shale
oil field stretches existing networks.
The movie's scornful appraisal of American diplomats in Tecala sees them as slavishly beholden to the
oil companies (which
plan to run a
pipeline into the area) and too powerless to offer Alice anything except official «sympathy.»
The
Pipelines and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) is issuing this advisory bulletin to remind all onshore
oil pipeline operators of the circumstances of the 2010 Marshall, Mich.,
pipeline accident and the need to update Facility Response
Plans (FRPs) every five years from the date of last submission or the last approval.
Balchen was hired as a consultant by Hercules
Oil, then Phillips Petroleum and Moran Towing on plans to extract oil from Alaska using pipelines.&raq
Oil, then Phillips Petroleum and Moran Towing on
plans to extract
oil from Alaska using pipelines.&raq
oil from Alaska using
pipelines.»
According to a thirty - year - old law in the US, diluted bitumen coming from the Alberta tar sands is not classified as
oil, meaning pipeline operators planning to transport the corrosive substance across the US — with proposed pipelines like the Keystone XL — are exempt from paying into the federal Oil Spill Liability Trust Fu
oil, meaning
pipeline operators
planning to transport the corrosive substance across the US — with proposed
pipelines like the Keystone XL — are exempt from paying into the federal
Oil Spill Liability Trust Fu
Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund.
The public - private consultations are helping the department draft a
plan to govern the marine area, which includes waters
oil tankers would travel on to reach a marine terminal for Enbridge's proposed Northern Gateway
pipeline...»
Enbridge, meanwhile, announced it will spend $ 200 million on a new
pipeline to connect Athabasca
Oil Corp's planned Hangingstone oil sands project in northern Alberta to its regional pipeline netwo
Oil Corp's
planned Hangingstone
oil sands project in northern Alberta to its regional pipeline netwo
oil sands project in northern Alberta to its regional
pipeline network.
According to a thirty - year - old law in the US, diluted bitumen coming from the Alberta tar sands is not classified as
oil, meaning pipeline operators planning to transport tar sands crude across the United States are exempt from paying into the federal Oil Spill Liability Trust Fu
oil, meaning
pipeline operators
planning to transport tar sands crude across the United States are exempt from paying into the federal
Oil Spill Liability Trust Fu
Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund.
Both Enbridge with its $ 5.5 - billion Northern Gateway project, and Kinder Morgan with
plans to expand an existing West Coast
pipeline called Trans Mountain, are working to give
oil sands companies access to refineries in China and Asia.
(Reuters)- Exxon Mobil on Sunday continued cleanup of a
pipeline spill that spewed thousands of barrels of heavy Canadian crude in Arkansas as opponents of
oil sands development latched on to the incident to attack
plans to build the Keystone XL line.
-- Create an independent review process for
pipeline companies»
oil spill response
plans for diluted bitumen, and make the documents open to public comment.
In December 2013, the Associated Press reported that a
planned pipeline transporting Alberta
oil sands to Vancouver, British Columbia would increase local tanker traffic «nearly sevenfold.»
TransCanada Corporation, on behalf of the Keystone
Pipeline partnerships (Keystone) between TransCanada and ConocoPhillips,
plans to expand the still - to - be-completed Keystone crude
oil pipeline system project (earlier post) to provide additional capacity of 500,000 barrels per day... Read more →
Long - established major
oil interests, of course, sound determined not to give an inch, such as a builder of a
planned pipeline from the prairies of Canada all the way to the gulf of Mexico through the USA.
This Saturday, they launch two weeks of protests in Washington, D.C., against
plans for the Keystone XL
pipeline, which would increase
oil sands imports into the United States.
But building any of these
pipelines ignores the fact that upstream
oil and gas emissions under Alberta's
plan, given NEB projections, will account for more than three quarters (76 %) of Canada's emissions by 2040 and 100 % by 2050 — if emissions reduction targets are to be met.
The Edelman strategy documents and work proposals outline a «grassroots advocacy» campaign
plan to build support for TransCanada's Energy East
pipeline as well as to undermine public opposition to
oil and
pipelines generally.