Sentences with phrase «oil transported by»

Under the most generous assumptions, whereby you assume the oil transported by Keystone XL would not be either shipped elsewhere or replaced with some other source, then this represents an incremental change on the order of fractions of a percent of global emissions.

The NYAG petition requests that PHMSA implement a Reid Vapor Pressure (RVP) limit less than 9.0 pounds per square inch (psi) for crude oil transported by rail.

The Attorney General petitioned PHMSA to add a new paragraph (a)(6) to the existing HMR requirements in Title 49 CFR § 174.310 that would «require all crude oil transported by rail to not exceed an established Reid Vapor Pressure (RVP) of 9.0 psi.»

Specifically, this rulemaking will assess the merits of a petition for rulemaking submitted by the Attorney General of the State of New York regarding vapor pressure standards for the transportation of crude oil to implement a RVP limit of 9.0 pounds per square inch (psi), for crude oil transported by rail.

Town of Rosendale Councilwoman Jennifer Metzger, a co-founder of the group Citizens for Local Power, says there should be no expectation that the pipeline would reduce the amount of crude oil transported by rail, and she criticized Pilgrim officials for making what she calls misleading statements.

First, the Board had ruled that it would not consider the environmental and socio - economic effects associated with upstream activities, the development of the Alberta oil sands, and the downstream use of oil transported by the pipeline.

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

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.

As politicians scramble to expedite laws addressing crude oil transport by rail, citizens gathered in Albany today to demand the trains be banned from rolling on New York tracks.

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.

«Simply put, transporting oil by rail — or by any method — is a disaster waiting to happen.»

But it turns out, no one is interested in transporting oil by rail across B.C. — or so says CN.

Railways, who added crude by rail capacity earlier this decade only to have the market vanish as pipeline space opened up, have been slow to move back in the oil transport business, asking producers to sign longer - term deals.

Henry Huttleston Rogers came up with the machinery by which naphtha could be separated from crude oil and was also the guy who thought of using long pipelines to transport oil instead of railway cars.

McKenna also told Clinton that Canada is tripling the amount of oil that's transported by rail because of a lack of pipelines.

So the pipeline is being built by an American company to help small - to - medium sized American oil companies transport American oil to American refineries in the Midwest for American drivers.

Crude - by - rail shipments are expected to ramp up in the second half of this year and into the first half of next year to «very material volumes of oil,» Pourbaix said, adding price discounts will improve but will likely remain higher than usual because rail costs more than pipeline transport.

Rail can't possibly transport 5 - 6 times more oil than what is currently happening, particularly after the two recent disasters and the anger over lack of responsibility and buck - passing by rail authorities.

The vast majority of this oil and bitumen is transported by pipeline to U.S. refineries, where it now supplies eight per cent of domestic demand.

It's possible that the potential routes for pipelines, railways, and barge transport for oil are completely exhausted and that without Keystone XL, Alberta would be left to transport oil sands by Volkswagen brigade, but somehow, despite the photographic evidence below, I find that unlikely.

For this analysis to hold water, you'd have to show that the barrels which would be transported by Keystone XL are, in fact, the marginal future barrels of oil sands production.

The Downstream segment comprises refining of crude oil into petroleum products; marketing of crude oil and refined products; transporting of crude oil and refined products by pipeline, marine vessel, motor equipment, and rail car; and manufacturing and marketing of commodity petrochemicals, plastics for industrial uses, and fuel and lubricant additives.

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.»

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.

Or, as pointed out by the federal environment minister McKenna in a letter Thursday to B.C. environment Minister George Heyman, that Canada already has a mountain of regulation to ensure a world - leading regime to transport oil and products, including: the Railway Safety Act, the Pipeline Safety Act, the National Energy Board Act, the Canada Shipping Act, 2001, the Marine Liability Act, the Fisheries Act, the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999, and that Ottawa has pledged to spend an additional $ 1.5 billion to protect its coasts and marine environment.

From a strictly legal perspective, the relevant question is not whether there is a sufficient connection to any particular existing or proposed oil sands development or other production activity, and certainly not whether such projects or activities were included in the Terms of Reference (ToR), but rather simply whether the GHGs associated with the production of bitumen that will be transported by the NGP are an «environmental effect» of that project (see NGP Report, Volume II, Appendix 4, Terms of Reference, which defines «environmental effect» very broadly to mean «any change that the project may cause in the environment.»

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?

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.

Islamic State gets money from oil, both crude and refined, by selling it on the black market to smugglers, who transport it, usually by truck, to surrounding countries.

The break - even price of tar sands oil is around $ 100 per barrel if transported by rail, according to Anthony Swift, a staff attorney at NRDC (which publishes

According to an internal document prepared by Environment Canada, released to CBC environment reporter Margo McDiarmid under Access to Information, Canadians are increasingly likely to question whether oil can be transported safely, whether by pipeline or rail.

Moving oil from Alberta to the Gulf by pipeline would cost around $ 9 per barrel, or one - third the cost of rail transport.

«In the future, companies may try to get around the environmental approval process by seeking approval to build a natural gas pipeline, then converting it into a pipeline for transporting heavy oil.

Existing production is in excess of 1,000 barrels of oil per day transported by...

One spill is too many but pipelines are much safer than rail for transporting oil By Kenneth P. Green, Elmira Aliakbari and Ashley Stedman The Fraser Institute State regulators in... Read more»

Rather it would give the energy minister the power to determine what type of oil and how much of it is transported, and by which method (pipeline or rail).

There is nothing new about transporting this form of crude oil — and after nearly half a century, there is no evidence that internal corrosion is caused by transporting oil from the Canadian oil sands.

It isn't that they would transport «oil» by rail (which would actually not be «oil» but «dilbit») if there isn't enough pipeline capacity.

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(i) Unable to restore the power in a few states for more than 10 + days, since a tornado passed by it (ii) Unable to restore power for 7 + days in a snowy North Eastern state, since a hurricane passed by it (iii) Having no quality in science, math and technology; depending on «imports» to uplift them (or depending on Jesus to save them)(iv) Horrible crime in downtown, ghettos of any major city (v) Unemployment of 23 % (vi) Having a president who believes that the earth is 6000 years old (vii) Having a presidential candidate which believes in subjugating women (viii) Having more than 50 % of its 2012 graduates un / under - employed (ix) No public transport, resulting in hell on earth even for a small rise in crude - oil prices (x) A crappy health care system (xi) A debt of 14Trillion, which corresponds to 50K per US resident.

You don't wish to own a Rolls Royce with ordinary engine oil or tricycles as your replacement means of transport nor would you want Ozil and Sanchez surrounded by men like Santos, Chamakh, Flamini, Arteta and such likes.

Elaborate trade networks have also evolved, with oil being smuggled across borders in plastic jugs and transported by trucks and on donkeys into Iraq and Turkey.

Edwina Akufo - Addo's alleged involvement in the scandal that hit the Bulk Oil Storage and Transport (BOST) is the outcome of years of lies said against former President John Mahama by her father president Akufo - Addo, according to the MP for Ningo Prampram.

The Managing Director of the Bulk Oil Storage and Transport Company (BsOST), Mr Alfred Obeng has been cleared of any wrong doing by the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) and the National Security in the sale of five million litres of contaminated fuel.

Pilgrim spokesman Paul Nathanson said the New York's review of the pipeline project will «demonstrate to everyone that Pilgrim is a safer, more environmentally friendly and economically efficient way to transport current flows of oil and refined products around the region that are now being transported mainly by river barge.»

On Saturday, Jan. 10 at 3 p.m. we will be holding an informational forum about the proposed Pilgrim Pipeline which is being planned to carry the very volatile and explosive Crude Oil which has been fracked in North Dakota (and transported by rail to Albany), down the New York State Thruway Corridor to New Jersey refineries.

In light of the March 7 CSX train derailment in Newburgh, state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli wrote to U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao requesting that she consider additional safety measures to reduce risks and protect New Yorkers from the transport of crude oil and any hazardous materials by rail.

And while rail transport typically falls under federal purview, the decision by the Cuomo administration reflects an increasing state interest in rail cargo, as the number of oil trains has grown from 10,000 a year to more than 400,000 carloads transported last year.

With more than 100,000 Hudson Valley residents dependent on the Hudson River for drinking water, Riverkeeper has urged community leaders in Dutchess County, Poughkeepsie, Hyde Park, Rhinebeck, Highland and Port Ewen to understand the risks posed by crude oil transport on the Hudson River, and actions they can take to protect their drinking water supplies.

Imani Africa President, Franklin Cudjoe, has questioned the declaration of GHc 35 million in profits by the Bulk Oil Storage and Transport Company Limited (BOST) in 10 months.