Sentences with phrase «oil tankers bound»

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.

The SS Pendleton, a T - 2 oil tanker bound for Boston, was literally ripped in half, trapping more than 30 sailors inside its rapidly - sinking stern.

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Stay tuned for updates on this developing story of how Vancouver, the «greenest city in the world,» may quietly become the main tanker route for oil sands crude bound for China.

Neither personality addressed the fact that the Keystone XL pipeline is specifically designed to transport heavy crude to refineries and export - bound oil tankers on the Gulf Coast, precisely the scenario that could lead to more spills like the one unfolding in Galveston Bay.

President Obama's decision in mid-January that he was not going to issue the permit because he couldn't determine whether it was in the national interest has caused a flurry of activity in Canada to start permitting an alternative pipeline from the oil sands to a port on the British Columbia coast, where the oil would be loaded on tankers bound for China and other Asian countries.

The menace of an oil spill from new Texas - bound tankers has nature - loving British Columbians rising up in opposition to expanded ocean traffic along the coast, that, amongst other environmental threats, endangers the killer whale population, the iconic Orcas.