Sentences with phrase «oil pipeline problems»

Not exact matches

Estimates vary widely on just how much methane is leaked from the vast network of oil and gas wells, pipelines and processing plants, but the problem has cast doubt on how much better natural gas is than coal for the environment.

That dispute, too, arises from a key problem facing the oil patch: there are simply too many pipelines and not enough crude.

Canadian oil producers have struggled to find sufficient rail cars to move their barrels since TransCanada Corp.'s Keystone pipeline spilled in South Dakota last year and have turned to securing railway cars to move their barrels, a situation which has exacerbated problems for farmers moving their grain off the prairies.

«But to compound those problems by breaking pipelines, stealing crude oil and destroying farmlands, destroying water ways, I don't see anybody benefiting from that.

The real problem in weighing fugitive emissions from gas and oil wells and pipelines is that there is simply no reliable source of data — at all.

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.

March 2005: «Pumping Poverty - Britain's Department for International Development and the Oil Industry» The author discusses the problems with ExxonMobil, especially the human rights problems with the Chad - Cameroon oil project and pipeliOil Industry» The author discusses the problems with ExxonMobil, especially the human rights problems with the Chad - Cameroon oil project and pipelioil project and pipeline.

The problem of increased water traffic is not unknown for oil sands pipelines.

Reduce dependency on (imported) fossil fuels (balance of payments, reliance on potentially unfriendly or unstable nations as suppliers, high cost at the pump, all problems as seen from US viewpoint): — encourage nuclear power generation (cut red tape)-- encourage energy savings and improved efficiency projects (tax breaks)-- encourage basic research into new (non fossil fuel) resources (subsidies)-- encourage imports from friendly neighbor, Canada (Keystone pipeline)-- encourage local oil and gas exploration («drill, baby, drill»)-- encourage «clean coal» projects (tax incentives)-- set goal to become energy independent within ten years

The Keystone XL Pipeline will give America energy independence, if there is ever a war in the Middle East our oil supply could be cut off, and with the XL we won't have that problem, 42,000 jobs will be created, 2 Billion paid to workers will give our treasury a boost, if we don't get approval Canada will sell the oil to China, they are our trading partners and our enemy, the pipeline will be a good thing for Americans, lower prices at the gas pump, and jobs for growth where as of now, we are not growing like we have in the past, just a few are against this but we have Millions of Americans who want it and they are more important than the few.

An oil flood through an Arkansas subdivision on March 29 is just the most recent example of pipeline problems in the U.S..

As to the controversial Keystone Pipeline, which would carry tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada to the Gulf Coast, Obama said that the pipeline would not be approved if it worsens climate change: «our national interest will be served only if this project does not significantly exacerbate the problem of carbon pollution.»

The seasonally - constrained natural gas pipeline network has prompted ISO - NE to issue a special winter reliability plan to procure fuel oil in the event of deliverability problems for the natural gas - fired units.

In fact, the problem in a place like Cushing is that we're actually producing so much oil and gas in places like North Dakota and Colorado that we don't have enough pipeline capacity to transport all of it to where it needs to go — both to refineries, and then, eventually, all across the country and around the world.

Pipelines Have Their Own Problems The Baku - Tbilisi - Ceyhan pipeline from the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean eliminates 350 tanker loads per year through the straits, and officials expect the $ 2.5 - billion Samsun - Ceyhan pipeline to relieve the route of 50 million tons of oil annually.

But the idea the Turkish government is pushing of making an eventual transition to transporting oil and gas through land - based bypass pipeline routes has plenty of problems of its own.

This lack of regulatory review, the use of aging and unsafe rail cars and transporting dangerous cargo through densely populated areas is certainly cause for concern, but as I've written here before, the problems with rail transport are not therefore good reasons for more oil pipelines.

More damning evidence against Enbridge over the Michigan pipeline failure back in 2010, that spilled tar sands oil in the Kalamazoo river: The Detroit Free Press reports that the chair of the National Transportation Safety Board says Enbridge knew about the very problem that led to the spill five years beforehand and did nothing about it.

Making things worse, six hours after Calhoun County residents were complaining to 911 about the smell of oil, Enbridge employees were still trying to fix the problem by pumping additional oil into the pipeline.

«Far from needing new pipelines, the oil sands industry will soon have problems filling the capacity of existing ones in tomorrow's emission - constrained world,» he said.