Sentences with phrase «oil tanker cars»

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.

Federal statistics show more than 672,000 oil tanker cars traveled across the country through the first 10 months of last year.

State and federal inspectors have completed a second round of safety checks of train tracks and oil tanker cars in an effort to prevent derailments and spills of volatile crude from North Dakota's Bakken region.

«Governor Cuomo and the affected counties in the Adirondacks oppose the storage of these oil tanker cars in the Park, and you should too.»

Environmental groups are asking the Cuomo administration to stop a short line railroad from storing contaminated oil tanker cars on unused tracks near the Adirondack High Peaks.

Not exact matches

Train tracks and tanker cars weren't built to accommodate trains carrying loads of heavy crude oil, making the trains more likely to derail.

Imagine Google putting its image - recognition capabilities to work to identify and track all of the world's oil tankers, or count the number of cars in the parking lots of all the Walmarts in the United States, and making that information searchable via the Internet.

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.

One of the largest accidental releases of oil in Alberta's history isn't a burst pipeline and it doesn't involve a train of tanker cars derailing into a river.

«Please direct your company to remove all of the oil tankers from the Adirondack Park and abandon plans to store more tanker cars here,» said the Adirondack Council's letter to Buffett.

Continuing his efforts to make sure that «oil trains» passing through Buffalo and other New York communities do not derail and explode, US Sen. Chuck Schumer called on the federal government to require the oil in those tanker cars be made less volatile before it is shipped.

The Adirondack Council is calling on billionaire investor and philanthropist Warren Buffett to remove his oil tanker railroad cars from the fragile, protected public forests of New York's Adirondack Park.

In a petition filed with the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, AG Eric Schneiderman sought reduced limits on the vapor pressure of oil shipped in tanker cars from the Bakken hydrofrack fields of North Dakota to coastal refineries.

With more oil being shipped via train from the Bakken region in North Dakota and adjacent Canada to the East Coast, and more accidents involving those tanker cars, safety concerns have been growing.

The U.S. Department of Transportation on Wednesday issued new proposed rules on tankers transporting oil including quickly phasing out the use of old DOT - 111 rail cars for moving crude oil and other hazardous liquids.

So this system works really well and it gets that dirty fuel from the oil well, on to the tanker to the refinery, to your neighbor and into your car, and it's a system; and what that system allows is for ordinary people to do pretty extraordinary things; to get personal mobility at what for many years, was a very cheap price.

PHMSA continues to advance a rulemaking addressing the integrity of DOT Specification 111 tanker cars and the safe shipment by rail of flammable materials such as crude oil.

As a SAP you represent the major decision point (and in some cases the only decision point) an employer may have in choosing whether or not to place an employee behind the steering wheel of a school bus, in the cockpit of a plane, at the helm of an oil tanker, at the throttle of a train, in the engineer compartment of a subway car, or at the emergency control valves of a natural gas pipeline.

It proves you don't have to drive a car as big as an oil tanker to seat five adults comfortably.

Before there was no real reason to have one in your garage, but with the added emphasis on cross-country racing those trucks and American muscle cars that nobody really wants can now find a home barging across the landscape before drifting vaguely left at the barnyard like a turbocharged oil tanker.

After graduating from Stuyvesant High School at 16, he had a variety of jobs — he worked on an oil tanker, on docks, and unloading railroad cars.

Assume I've replaced my car with a new plug - in hybrid, and to eliminate extraneous factors assume that they're otherwise identical — same weight, CdA, rolling resistance, & c. I've replaced an energy path of oil well — oil tanker or pipeline — refinery — tank truck — gas pump — IC engine with one that's 0.7 * (coal mine — railroad — power station — transmission line — battery charging — electric motor).

CFACT Senior Policy Analyst Paul Driessen laments the long, arduous battle to open the Keystone XL pipeline — an action that would eliminate the need for 1,225 railroad tanker cars per day (450,000 per year) or 3,500 semi-trailer tanker trucks daily (1,275,000 annually) that currently transport oil to refineries, saving lives and costs and creating jobs in rural America.

The Railroad has ordered equipment to the site that will use steam to heat the 14 derailed tanker cars so the oil they contain can be pumped into other tanker cars.

Three tanker cars carrying crude oil that derailed were leaking oil.