Sentences with phrase «oil transport through»

With All Eyes on Keystone, Another Tar Sands Pipeline Just Crossed the Border «The Keystone XL pipeline may be in political limbo, but that hasn't stopped another Canadian company from quietly pressing ahead on a pipeline project that will ramp up the volume of tar sands oil transported through the U.S.. What's more, the company, Enbridge, is making those changes without a permit, and environmental groups say it is flouting the law.

Not exact matches

Prime Minister Stephen Harper lent support to the 1,200 - kilometre, $ 6 - billion pipeline that would carry more than 500,000 barrels a day of crude oil from Edmonton through the Rockies to Kitimat, B.C., where it could be transported by tanker to markets in the U.S. and Asia, including China.

Roughly a quarter of all oil transported by sea (more than 15 million barrels per day) passes through the Strait of Malacca.

This path is also the most efficient and cost - effective route through which these producers can transport their oil to East Asia.

So is scrutiny of ExxonMobil and the U.S. pipeline authority, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA): the ruptured pipeline had been installed in the late 1940s, and ran through a densely populated area, yet it was transporting heavy crude, which might be more hazardous than regular oil.

Before their combination, both EQT and Rice operated midstream businesses — which transport oil and gas from wells to processing, transportation and shipping facilities — through limited partnerships.

You'd never know from the fighting language used by the B.C. premier that the pipeline has been safely transporting oil through the province for more than 60 years.

Energy giant TransCanada originally proposed the Keystone XL pipeline to transport 800,000 barrels daily of tar sands oil through five states from Alberta, Canada, 1,700 miles to Gulf of Mexico refineries in Texas.

The case filed in the B.C. Court of Appeal asks if the province has jurisdiction to regulate the transport of oil through its territory

To get there, the state would use a tax it already levies against companies that transport oil through New York.

He said the town «doesn't need another mode of transport» bringing crude oil through the community.

The Green Party opposes the petroleum «bomb trains» transporting highly explosive crude oil from North Dakota through local communities, including Catskill.

Safe transport of crude oil through populated areas is not possible.

In lab tests, Wang and colleagues proved the machines could move through water and pick up both olive oil and motor oil, transporting collections of droplets around.

Comprising tiny rolled sheets of graphene oxide, these structures can zip around easily through both oil and water, picking up any oil particles they encounter and transporting them as cargo for later release.

The big difference is that coconut oil, cream and butter are absorbed into bloodstream directly from the intestines through the lymph system, whereas other fats require pancreatic enzymes and bile to break them into smaller units and then they transported to the liver, where they are processed before entering the bloodstream.

Once they reach your intestine, they diffuse through your intestinal membrane into your bloodstream and are transported directly to your liver, which naturally converts the oil into ketones.

By this Order, DOT is requiring that each railroad carrier provide the State Emergency Response Commission (SERC) for each state in which it operates trains transporting 1,000,000 gallons or more of Bakken crude oil, notification regarding the expected movement of such trains through the counties in the state.

The notification must include estimated volumes of Bakken crude oil being transported, frequencies of anticipated train traffic and the route through which Bakken crude oil will be transported.

Specifically, this notification must: (a) provide a reasonable estimate of the number of trains implicated by this Order that are expected to travel, per week, through each county within the state; (b) identify and describe the petroleum crude oil being transported in accordance with 49 CFR part 172, subpart C; (c) provide all applicable emergency response information required by 49 CFR part 172, subpart G; and, (d) identify the route over which the material will be transported.

In response to the Secretary's recent «Call to Action,» the rail and shipping industries have renewed their commitment to the TRANSCAER ® program and have agreed to conduct additional outreach and training to local emergency responders in jurisdictions through which crude oil is transported in large quantities.

Specifically, the notification must: (a) provide a reasonable estimate of the number of trains implicated by this Order that are expected to travel, per week, through each county within the state; (b) identify and describe the petroleum crude oil expected to be transported in accordance with 49 CFR part 172, subpart C; (c) provide all applicable emergency response information required by 49 CFR part 172, subpart G; and, (d) identify the routes over which the material will be transported.

If initial notification is not made to a SERC within 30 days of the date of this Order, a railroad is prohibited from operating any train transporting 1,000,000 gallons or more of Bakken crude oil through that state until such notification is provided.

In addition to oil and natural gas exploration and production, Chevron also transports and refines petroleum products for delivery to retail, commercial, industrial and marine customers through a network of pipelines, ships, refineries and service stations.

For Wanderlust, Tabet installs a new iteration of Steel Rings, a sculpture that replicates forty kilometers of the defunct Trans - Arabian Pipeline, a 753 - mile - long American venture that transported oil by land from Saudi Arabia to Lebanon through Jordan, Syria, and the Golan Heights between 1950 and 1983.

Furthermore, the idea that pipelines are a safer alternative to rail is a false dichotomy — the oil industry does not intend to stop transporting oil by rail if they manage to force their pipeline through, as they hope to transport the oil by both pipeline and rail.

The Constitution Pipeline Project — a joint venture between four oil and gas companies — was proposed to transport fracked natural gas from Susquehanna County in Pennsylvania through Broome, Chenango, Delaware, and Schoharie counties in New York to existing interstate pipelines.

This briefing finds that the transport of tar sands oil through pipelines in the United States is exempt from payments into the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund, which creates a free ride worth over $ 375 million to tar sands oil producers between 2010 and 20oil through pipelines in the United States is exempt from payments into the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund, which creates a free ride worth over $ 375 million to tar sands oil producers between 2010 and 20Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund, which creates a free ride worth over $ 375 million to tar sands oil producers between 2010 and 20oil producers between 2010 and 2017.

Water monitoring will be done through a comprehensive and integrated approach that quantifies and assesses the sources, transport, loadings, fate, and types of oil sands contaminants in the Athabasca River system and effects on key aquatic ecosystem components (both within the oil sands development area and in downstream receiving environments) that are measures of ecosystem health and integrity (fish, invertebrates).

To be clear, Enbridge is not abandoning its traditional bedrock: over 70 per cent of the company's profits still come from transporting oil through its vast network of pipelines, though Monaco recently indicated this could shrink to 50 per cent as early as 2020 as its other business lines grow.

These companies are benefiting from the huge investments needed to explore, produce, process and transport oil and gas unlocked from previously inaccessible dense rock formations through advances in hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling, according to the findings by Houston - based energy analyst firm IHS.

Upon its completion, the Baku - Tbilisi - Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline would stretch 1,090 miles and transport 1 million barrels of crude oil a day from the Caspian Sea port of Baku in Azerbaijan through Georgia to Ceyhan on the Turkish Mediterranean coast.

The #NoDAPL movement has garnered national attention, much like the Keystone XL fight did, for creating a formidable opponent to the fossil fuel companies invested in transporting more oil and gas through their ever - expanding pipeline network.

The proposed Keystone XL pipeline would transport 880,000 barrels of raw, toxic tar sands oil right across the Oglala Aquifer and Lakota territory, and down through the American heartland — from Alberta, Canada to refineries in Texas per day.

This pipeline transports bitumen - loaded tar sands oil, which is more corrosive than oil extracted through other methods — which means much higher risk of leaks.

TransCanada's proposed Energy East Pipeline would transport tar sands crude from Alberta, through Ontario and Quebec, and as far as New Brunswick's Irving Oil Ltd. refinery and port of Saint John.

But we should especially avoid using more tar sands oil that would be transported through projects like the Keystone XL pipeline.

The case of the ExxonMobil's Pegasus pipeline has thrown light on the blurry legislation surrounding the amount of crude oil that can be transported through a pipeline.

Some measures reportedly discussed at the meeting with energy firms seem an obvious improvement, such as restricting the number, age, or load size of tankers or requiring more insurance to be bought by the companies that transport 145 million tons of hazardous substances — about two - thirds of it oil — through the straits each year.

But the idea the Turkish government is pushing of making an eventual transition to transporting oil and gas through land - based bypass pipeline routes has plenty of problems of its own.

«The great irony of this tragic spill in Arkansas is that the transport of tar sands oil through pipelines in the US is exempt from payments into the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fuoil through pipelines in the US is exempt from payments into the Oil Spill Liability Trust FuOil Spill Liability Trust Fund.

This lack of regulatory review, the use of aging and unsafe rail cars and transporting dangerous cargo through densely populated areas is certainly cause for concern, but as I've written here before, the problems with rail transport are not therefore good reasons for more oil pipelines.

Today, President Obama is expected to veto a bill authorizing the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, which would transport crude oil from Canada's tar sands through the United States to oil refineries on the Gulf Coast.

Furthermore the reduction of the Loop Current transport through the Gulf of Mexico would decrease its direct interference with the oil and gas operations in the Gulf, and reduce the amount of warm water accumulated inside the Loop and warm - core rings which detach from the Loop.

Over 70 per cent of Burnaby residents are opposed to the expansion project, which will transport more diluted bitumen between Strathcona County (near Edmonton) and Burnaby, subsequently bringing 34 additional tankers monthly through Vancouver's Burrard Inlet and increasing the risk of catastrophic oil spills.

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.

Province asked the courts to rule on whether it has the jurisdiction to regulate the transport of oil through the province, a central question in the political fight over the controversial Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.

OTTAWA — The B.C. government has asked the courts whether it has the jurisdiction to regulate the transport of oil through the province, a central question in the continuing political fight over the controversial Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.

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.