Sentences with phrase «oil tankers moving»

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.

An oil tanker moving in Burrard Inlet.

Not exact matches

While it is true that small oil tankers have moved surplus oil out of Second Narrows for decades, it has never been done on this scale — or using ships that exceed the dimensions of what the Port Metro Vancouver (PMV) previously considered safe.

With regard to oil exports, the product from Alberta has to be moved across B.C. (more pipelines needed) and shipped in tankers (more port construction) to Asia.

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.

«It's like a slow - moving oil tanker: It's slowing down, but it will take awhile to stop.»

The field of medicine is like an oil tanker — slow to move forward and even slower to change direction.

It may take a long time to change the course of the Microsoft / Xbox oil tanker — and even when the games do arrive, they will probably be less polished than the PS4 equivalents because Microsoft keeps moving the target.

However, it does improve as we step move nearer the present with notable additions including Graham Sutherland's torpedoed oil tanker and Paul Nash's photographs of wrecked aircraft and rural decay.

A third pipeline, called the Sandpiper, will move fracked oil through the north country, crossing pristine watersheds, the headwaters of the Mississippi and then pour ed into a set of newly proposed refinery expansions, pipelines and possibly tankers in the Great Lakes region.

With the approval of the Kinder Morgan pipeline, we expect an increase in tanker traffic by 700 % through the Salish Sea, meaning more oil moving through pipelines and more export terminals, making Washington State a target for dangerous spills and explosions.

A huge fleet of tankers moved oil from the Persian Gulf to markets on every continent.