Sentences with phrase «oil tanker»

An oil tanker is a large ship that transports oil from one place to another. It is like a huge container on water that carries lots of oil, just like a truck carries things on a road. Full definition
They don't want the number of oil tankers in the Burrard inlet to go up sevenfold and they are backing the legal challenges coming from three of the B.C. coastal nations.
Kinder Morgan has been granted permission to expand its pipeline from Alberta to the B.C. coast with a resulting increase in oil tanker traffic in coastal waters.
Perhaps, as May says, overturning «the current moratorium on oil tanker traffic on the B.C. coastline», and allowing huge Chinese tankers to use the «300 km of perilous navigation in highly energetic tidal conditions is a bad choice».
I oppose the Northern Gateway pipeline for a number of reasons, beginning with the fact that the project requires over-turning the current moratorium on oil tanker traffic on the British Columbia coastline.
WASHINGTON (November 13, 2015)-- Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's federal government is following through on an election promise to ban crude oil tanker traffic off the coast of northern British Columbia.
Firstly, I'm guessing that there are exaggerations about some of the effects of increased oil tanker traffic in the Salish Sea.
To date we are best known for our No Tankers campaign, aimed at stopping the expansion of oil tankers off British Columbia's magnificent but fragile coast.
The law also gives the state flexibility in in determining the conditions and guidelines for oil tankers on the river in order to ensure necessary travel.
December 2013, West Nyack A train carrying empty oil tanker cars collided with a truck at an at - grade crossing in West Nyack, Rockland County.
Spotting a powerful wedge issue, Justin Trudeau committed to rejecting the Enbridge pipeline and legislating a crude oil tanker ban on British Columbia's North Coast.
We recommend the H8 - 5 Fire Door by Hörmann — this design has been providing optimum safety for boiler rooms and rooms with oil tankers for decades.
The operation to clear pirates from a hijacked oil tanker by Russian special forces in May of 2010 is a perfect example of the types of missions in TAKEDOWN.
The Exxon Valdez oil tanker ran aground in Prince William Sound, spilling an estimated 11 million gallons of crude oil along Alaskan shores.
With an almost seven-fold increase in oil tankers moving through Burrard Inlet and the Salish Sea, an increase in groundings, accidents, incidents, leaks and oil spills would be inevitable.
The Administrative Manager of the factory explained that three workers were in the process of cleaning an empty oil tanker when the explosion occurred.
In previous research he found that Vibrio became the dominant type of marine bacteria off the south - eastern US as oil tanker traffic increased after the 1970s.
Dennis Takahashi - Kelso, executive vice-president of the Ocean Conservancy, an environmental organization based in Washington DC, was Alaska's commissioner of environmental conservation during that state's 1989 Exxon Valdez oil tanker spill.
Marc Eliesen has withdrawn as an intervenor in the federal government's review of Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline and oil tanker expansion project, detailing his reasons for quitting in a scathing 1,500 word letter to the National Energy Board.
Set in 1952 the movie tells the story of a daring rescue by the Coast Guard of the crew on a sinking oil tanker off the coast of Cape Cod during a...
Both of the big pipelines currently proposed to British Columbia are also stalled because of opposition from indigenous peoples and citizens on the coast who remember the Exxon Valdeez and don't want giant oil tankers running through their waters.
Texas pipeline company Kinder Morgan issued an ultimatum yesterday: give our shareholders confidence that we can build the Trans Mountain oil tanker project, or we're walking.
Today is, not coincidentally, the 21st anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, and on the heels of the ad came an announcement from the Coastal First Nations (an alliance of nine nations from the central coast to Haida Gwaii) declaring that»... in upholding our ancestral laws, rights and responsibilities... oil tankers carrying crude oil from the Alberta Tar Sands will not be allowed to transit our lands and waters.»
In the third quarter of last year, oil tanker rates collapsed.
For example, Overseas Shipholding Group (equity ticker OSG) is a deeply junk rated oil tanker company that has seen its bonds drop from trading around par (par means 100 cents on the dollar when comparing the market price to the face amount of the bonds) to distressed levels between 60 and 70 cents on the dollar.
In fact, one pound of any substance completely converted into energy equals: (1) 11 billion kilowatt hours of electricity, (2) the power needs to drive a car around the earth 180,000 times, (3) the power required to propel the largest oil tanker around the earth 400 times, (4) the electric power needs of the United States for one day.
A bill that sets limits and guidelines for where oil tankers can travel on the Hudson River was approved Monday evening by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
Then, on November 13, 2002, the hull of the Prestige oil tanker broke in half off the north - western coast of Spain, releasing 63,000 tonnes of oil.
Then there's the Perdernales — it was one of four oil tankers torpedoed by a German submarine over two days in February of 1942.
In May 2017, the Canadian government introduced Bill C - 48, the proposed Oil Tanker Moratorium Act, to Parliament.
Wrong on both counts, it seems, because Prime Minister Stephen Harper has shrugged off a 35 - year practice to ban oil tankers plying B.C.'s inside passage.
Environmentalists were stunned this summer when they learned that Iowa Pacific Holdings, which leases / owns the railroad line from Saratoga to Tahawus, was considering storing empty oil tankers along an unused section of the tracks in Essex and Hamilton Counties.
In reference to the proposal by Mayor Blais of Lake George to legally remove Iowa Pacific's oil tanker junkyard on the Tahawus rail spur, the Adirondack Council and its consulting lawyers might have found a way.
After several denials by the Defence Headquarters that a recently hijacked oil tanker, MT Leon Dias was not abducted by alleged pro-Biafra militants and in Nigerian waters, the Defence Headquarters has warned that any group of persons or interests who indulge in hijacking or piracy against -LSB-...]
Modern double hull oil tankers are not as susceptible to spills, but the many small ships (especially low budget, unlicensed ships) carrying goods of all types can and do run aground, causing smaller spills.
They'd be driven away by the abrasive sound of huge tar sands oil tankers bound for China coursing through the narrow channels of their pristine habitat several times a week.
• All - new platform, suspension and exterior design • An unparalleled combination of performance and luxury at the time • Ruptured Exxon Valdez oil tanker ship dumps over 10 million gallons of crude oil off the coast of Alaska in 1989
Arno Kopecky spent months sailing along a proposed oil tanker route off British Columbia.
Elizabeth May, the member of Parliament for the Southern Gulf Islands, along which oil tankers sailing out of Vancouver would necessarily pass, is the leader of Canada's Green Party.
In August 2014, Liberal leader Justin Trudeau made the trek to the tiny Gitga'at community of Hartley Bay, located along Enbridge's proposed oil tanker route in northwestern B.C.
Ottawa has eight weeks to break the backs of oil tanker opponents.
Last week the propaganda campaign pushing Kinder Morgan «s controversial Trans Mountain oil tanker - pipeline proposal sunk to a new low.
On the anniversary of the Braer oil tanker disaster, Green MSPs are calling for immediate action to prevent another marine disaster.
If the market is unwilling to adequately insure pipeline and oil tanker operators because their ventures are too risky, then they should not receive regulatory approval.
No way you could send oil tankers over a state border regularly without the state allowing this to happen.
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