Sentences with phrase «oil trains in»

As I write these words, brave activists are on trial for trying to block oil trains in the Pacific Northwest.

Hawkins, the Green Party nominee for Governor, said oil trains in New York are a rolling environmental injustice.

WAMC's David Guistina talks with Mike Spain of the Times Union about oil trains in Albany and officers suspended over woodchuck death.

WAMC's David Guistina talks with Mike Spain of the Times Union about oil trains in New York's capital region.

However, it has not taken additional steps to limit oil trains in the way environmental and community groups have requested.

ALBANY — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has been at odds with Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration over a number of high - profile issues in recent years, including a Tappan Zee bridge construction loan, oil trains in the Port of Albany and the cleanup of the Hudson River.

Vancouver, WA — Community members blocked an oil train in downtown Vancouver, WA in a creative direct action calling for an end to oil trains, oil terminals, and all fossil fuels.

Yet, when the second oil train in 18 months derailed in North Dakota this spring, Governor Jack Dalrymple declared what he believes to be the best response to safety concerns: more pipelines.

Not exact matches

The oil exploration method allows oil engineers to dig up oil in locations that would have been unthinkable just years ago, and oil trains are the most efficient way to get natural resources from the field to the refinery.

There have been a number of high - profile derailments of trains — including one by UP — carrying shale oil, much of which is produced in new drilling areas without established pipeline networks and must be moved by rail.

Fire crews have extinguished a fire that raged in Oregon after a Union Pacific Corp train carrying crude oil derailed on Friday and burst into flames near the Columbia River in the town of Mosier., the Federal Rail Administration said.

«If the oil price is going down, it's very difficult to stand in front of that speeding train and hope you are in the one or two stocks that aren't highly correlated with the downward movement,» says Randy Ollenberger, an analyst with BMO Capital Markets.

That's despite the fact premiers Christy Clark and Alison Redford, in a backgrounder to their recent agreement on the ground rules for building pipelines, warned that oil may end up crossing B.C. by train en route to Asia regardless of whether the Northern Gateway or Trans - Mountain Expansion projects go ahead.

However, a truck can only carry 200 barrels of oil, compared with 60,000 barrels in one unit train, or nearly 600,000 per day on the Keystone Pipeline - the equivalent of 3,000 trucks.

A vast increase in oil transport by rail surely has at least something to do with the accident — if the train hadn't been carrying oil, its destruction might have been less catastrophic — but there will inevitably be debate over the conclusion to draw from that observation.

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.

The price gap between Canadian and world oil prices has shrunk as more oil has been loaded on to train cars and smaller pipeline projects in the US have helped siphon off the backlog of crude piling up in the Midwest.

Zooming in on climate change, Proxy Preview highlights one new shareholder proposal «that raises questions about transporting oil and gas by train and several taking up different angles on deforestation that connect ecological and human rights impacts.»

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The derailment and explosions, which took place around 1:15 a.m. on Saturday, underscored a debate in the effort to transport North America's oil across long distances: is it safer and less environmentally destructive to move huge quantities of crude oil by train or by pipeline?

That accident left 47 people dead and released millions of litres of oil into the air, water and soil when the runaway train crashed in the small Quebec town.

«We have an explosion of tight oil production in Canada and the United States, and most of it is moving by train,» said Anthony Swift, a lawyer with the Natural Resources Defense Council in Washington.

Keith Stewart, a climate and energy campaigner with Greenpeace Canada who has examined the increased use of oil trains, criticized railways in Canada and the United States for continuing to use older oil tank cars that he said were found to be unsafe more than 20 years ago.

Since the July 2013 Lac - Megantic fatal train disaster and other recent incidents involving oil by rail, Transport Canada has faced questions about whether it adequately addressed safety oversight concerns surrounding the transportation of dangerous cargo, which were repeatedly raised in internal audits.

Looking at the figures above I can not complain as my dividend train keeps chugging along churning out that passive income despite currency headwinds, economic headwinds, terror across the world, saber rattling from North Korea, Russian troops in Ukraine, The Nigerian delta under attack curbing the flow of oil, floods, earthquakes etc. etc..

A crude oil train sits parked outside the Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery owned by the Carlyle Group in south Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., March 20, 2014.

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Increasingly, oil producers are resorting to trains to move their product, with derailments and fires like those that occurred last year in Lac - Mégantic and in April in Lynchburg, Virginia, the unfortunate consequences.

He worked in the oil industry for 11 years before leaving a highly paid executive post to train for ordination.

Conjuring images of the old American West is not hard to do: the empty plain and the big sky, the wagon train, cowboys versus Indians, the gold - crazed forty - niner or the oil baron, probably corrupt, in search of a financial bonanza.

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In these areas, the coconuts generally just fell to the ground unused until we started training people to make our Virgin Coconut Oil.

These risks require additional due diligence in sourcing, education and training to ensure the palm oil in our supply chain is not associated with deforestation, child or forced labor, or plantation expansion on carbon - rich peatlands.

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I trained in fine art at the Manchester School of Art, where I did a BA (hons) specialising in oil painting.

Carolyn McLaughlin, the president of the Albany Common Council and the Albany County Democratic Committee chair, seconded the nomination by noting Schumer's work on behalf of Henry Johnson, a World War I veteran, and in cracking down on oil trains that run next to Albany's public housing.

Meanwhile, following renewed attacks on oil platforms and gas pipelines in the Niger Delta, the Nigerian Navy, yesterday, commenced modalities to train its officers and ratings in the use of un-manned maritime vessels, UMVs, as well as un-manned aerial vessels, UAVs, to be incorporated soon into its operations.

«The militants engage in sophisticated sabotage, using skills they had gained from trainings either by the government, or the oil companies, to vandalise installations deep in the sea.

In mid-August, on the day before Enck was to meet with residents concerned that the state had not done enough to address the issue of oil trains and industrial pollution at public housing near the Port of Albany, the state announced it would devote hundreds of thousands of dollars in investment for the area and step up enforcement of rules regulating diesel truckIn mid-August, on the day before Enck was to meet with residents concerned that the state had not done enough to address the issue of oil trains and industrial pollution at public housing near the Port of Albany, the state announced it would devote hundreds of thousands of dollars in investment for the area and step up enforcement of rules regulating diesel truckin investment for the area and step up enforcement of rules regulating diesel trucks.

The South End of Albany, as well as neighborhoods in Cohoes located near the «bomb» trains carrying Bakken crude oil still suffer from asthma, bronchitis and multiple cases of cancer that residents attribute to the air pollution.

General News of Sunday, 13 May 2018 Source: ghananewsagency.org The students were trained in physics, chemistry and biology Tullow Oil Ghana has provided 129 eligible Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) candidates with practical training in Science in the Sekondi - Takoradi Metropolis (STMA) as part of its investment in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education.

It is time to not only ban fracking, but halt new investments in fossil fuels and related infrastructure, including pipelines, gas - fired power plants, fracking waste dumps, fossil fuel storage depots in the salt caverns by Seneca Lake, LNG exports at Port Ambrose, crude oil «bomb trains,» and a tar sands oil heater at the Port of Albany.

One would carry crude oil, which arrives in Albany by train from North Dakota's Bakken Shale region, to the refinery.

Bill Barr, who lives on Livingston Street in the village, also said the pipeline would not replace train or barge transport of crude oil and would pose a great risk of contaminating aquifers.

In the face of a court challenge from a broad coalition of environmental and community groups and massive community opposition, the DEC today halted Global Companies» proposed expansion of its massive Albany oil train facility to handle tar sands oil.

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.

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.

«Because of a regulatory loophole, these trains can carry crude oil through some of our most densely populated areas without any limit on explosiveness or flammability — creating ticking time bombs that jeopardize the safety of countless New Yorkers and Americans,» Schneiderman said in a statement.