The proposed coal export and
oil transport terminals pose a host of dangers to Northwest communities, our economy, our health and our climate.
Not exact matches
It owns and operates pipelines and
terminals that
transport natural gas, gasoline, crude
oil, carbon dioxide and other products and stores petroleum products, chemicals and handle bulk materials like ethanol, coal, petroleum coke and steel.
The pipeline would carry crude
oil from the Bakken
oil fields in North Dakota to Illinois where it will link with another pipeline that will
transport the
oil to
terminals and refineries along the Gulf of Mexico.
The new pipeline would triple the amount of diluted bitumen
transported through a seismically active area of the Southwest coast of British Columbia, double the
oil storage tank capacity on Burnaby Mountain above heavily populated areas and dramatically increase the number of Aframax tankers required to ship the
oil from Kinder Morgan's marine
terminal through Burrard Inlet and coastal waters.
Daniel Gallivan, Cox & Palmer's chief executive officer, sees projects such as the proposed TransCanada Corp. pipeline, which would
transport crude
oil to refineries and export
terminals in the east, as potential «game - changers» for law firms in the region.
«The closest that Energy East will get to a Canadian refinery is the Irving Refinery in New Brunswick, but even there,
oil transported on the pipeline will not go to the refinery itself; instead it will be delivered to a new
oil export
terminal.»
Kinder Morgan's proposal to twin its existing Trans Mountain Pipeline would increase the amount of
oil transported from Edmonton to Burnaby's Westbridge
Terminal from 300,000 barrels per day to 890,000 barrels per day, and increase tanker traffic through part of the Southern Resident killer whales» critical habitat in the Salish Sea by nearly seven times, from 60 tankers per year to over 420.