Sentences with phrase «on oil tanker»

I oppose the Northern Gateway pipeline for a number of reasons, beginning with the fact that the project requires over-turning the current moratorium on oil tanker traffic on the British Columbia coastline.

Perhaps, as May says, overturning «the current moratorium on oil tanker traffic on the B.C. coastline», and allowing huge Chinese tankers to use the «300 km of perilous navigation in highly energetic tidal conditions is a bad choice».

After graduating from Stuyvesant High School at 16, he had a variety of jobs — he worked on an oil tanker, on docks, and unloading railroad cars.

«The Finest Hours» and «The 33» are minor examples about rescue efforts for those trapped on an oil tanker and in a collapsed mine, respectively.

Next year, after Norsepower installs rotor sails on an oil tanker and a passenger cruise ship, «we'll have all of the main ship types covered,» Riski says.

Just as Albertans expected their political leaders to fight back when Trudeau - the - dad tried to force his National Energy Plan on them in 1980, British Columbians expect our premier to fight to protect our province from bullies from across the Rockies trying to bisect British Columbia with an unwanted pipeline to deliver toxic bitumen to Burnaby for export on oil tankers.

CALGARY, Feb 18 (Reuters)- Canadian Pacific Railway Co, the country's second - biggest rail operator, is considering what to do with C$ 2 billion ($ 1.83 billion) in surplus real estate, its chief executive said on Tuesday as he defended plans to impose a surcharge on oil tankers he considers unsafe.

Not exact matches

The Eagle Ford crude oil tanker sails out of the the NuStar Energy dock at the Port of Corpus Christi in Corpus Christi, Texas, U.S., on Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016.

Potential U.S. sanctions on sales of light crude to Venezuela's oil company PDVSA would hamper its already weak refining network while leaving at least one tanker in limbo, according to a source from the state - run firm and Thomson Reuters data.

After wandering the seas for a month and a half, the same tanker docked at a port on the heel of Italy's boot and offloaded what the ship's documents claimed was Greek olive oil.

Although the particular coastline of Vancouver Island I was fishing this summer is not directly on the proposed tanker route, any sizeable oil spill along the north coast of British Columbia would have consequences here as well.

Stay tuned for updates on this developing story of how Vancouver, the «greenest city in the world,» may quietly become the main tanker route for oil sands crude bound for China.

Spotting a powerful wedge issue, Justin Trudeau committed to rejecting the Enbridge pipeline and legislating a crude oil tanker ban on British Columbia's North Coast.

The proposed 1,177 - kilometre Northern Gateway pipeline would deliver 525,000 barrels of Alberta oil to a tanker terminal in Kitimat, on the north coast of B.C..

Every few days, tankers freshly laden with crude from Alberta's oil sands squeeze through the shallow Second Narrows channel in Burrard Inlet, make their way through swift currents in the southern Gulf Islands and on towards offshore markets.

Add in stolid First Nations resistance to a proposed pipeline from the tar sands to Kitimat, and all these powerful pressures converge on the aptly named Second Narrows, which already has seen its oil tanker traffic rise precipitously in the past decade.

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.

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A Guantanamo Bay inmate who pleaded guilty to helping plan a 2002 attack on a French oil tanker has been transferred to Saudi Arabia, the Pentagon said Wednesday.

Wrong on both counts, it seems, because Prime Minister Stephen Harper has shrugged off a 35 - year practice to ban oil tankers plying B.C.'s inside passage.

Today is, not coincidentally, the 21st anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, and on the heels of the ad came an announcement from the Coastal First Nations (an alliance of nine nations from the central coast to Haida Gwaii) declaring that»... in upholding our ancestral laws, rights and responsibilities... oil tankers carrying crude oil from the Alberta Tar Sands will not be allowed to transit our lands and waters.»

The back - up plan to the back - up plan now sees oil heading east to New Brunswick, where it can be loaded onto seaborne tankers on the Atlantic.

There's already significant shipping of oil in tankers on the coast and the government seems to be trying to stop the pipeline by tying it up in a potentially lengthy court process, Wilkinson said.

With a fuel duty rise due this summer and the possibility of strikes by fuel tanker drivers, it will be interesting to measure the impact on the oil companies and whether BP and Shell can ensure that any blame attached is shared around equally, rather than disproportionately focused on them.

For example, Overseas Shipholding Group (equity ticker OSG) is a deeply junk rated oil tanker company that has seen its bonds drop from trading around par (par means 100 cents on the dollar when comparing the market price to the face amount of the bonds) to distressed levels between 60 and 70 cents on the dollar.

A worker works on a liquefied natural gas (LNG) tanker at a port of the China National Offshore Oil Co (CNOOC) in Tianjin, China November 6, 2017.

This work included representing two First Nations in a successful legal challenge to the federal government's approval of Northern Gateway, as well as advocating for a strong federal oil tanker ban law on BC's north coast.

Alberta Premier Rachel Notley's political future depends on landing a pipeline to carry heavy oil from the Alberta oil sands to tankers off the B.C. coast, and she is adamant a proposal by Kinder Morgan to expand its existing pipeline must proceed.

KRG says independent tanker loadings to begin The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has announced that it will market crude from oil fields under its control sent autonomously of Iraq's central government to the Turkish port of Ceyhan in a pipeline it claims as its own, with the first shipment up for sale before the end of January.On the KRG's website late on Jan. 8, the Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) gave «public notice of the commencement of the sale of its first shipment of crude oil exported via Kurdistan Region's new...

Big oil companies had tankers full of oil just floating out on the ocean.

HOUSTON (Reuters)-- Potential U.S. sanctions on sales of light crude to Venezuela's oil company PDVSA would hamper its already weak refining network while leaving at least one tanker in Continue Reading

VANCOUVER — The Christy Clark government has asked Ottawa to lift a ban on burning oil to deal with spills, proof that Christy Clark is prepared to do anything to allow a seven-fold increase in tanker traffic on B.C.'s coast, say the...

Cuomo has ordered flags on state government buildings to fly at half - staff Tuesday in honor of 10 Navy sailors, including a New York native, who were killed when the destroyer USS John McCain was involved in a collision with an oil tanker Aug. 21.

The law also gives the state flexibility in in determining the conditions and guidelines for oil tankers on the river in order to ensure necessary travel.

Environmental groups are asking the Cuomo administration to stop a short line railroad from storing contaminated oil tanker cars on unused tracks near the Adirondack High Peaks.

NORTH CREEK The last of the oil tankers stored on railway sidings in the central Adirondacks have been removed.

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.

The Adirondack Council is calling on billionaire investor and philanthropist Warren Buffett to remove his oil tanker railroad cars from the fragile, protected public forests of New York's Adirondack Park.

In a petition filed with the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, AG Eric Schneiderman sought reduced limits on the vapor pressure of oil shipped in tanker cars from the Bakken hydrofrack fields of North Dakota to coastal refineries.

A man in Nigeria's oil capital, Port Harcourt in the south of the country, looks on at an oil tanker carrying fuel that exploded after an accident.

Ulster County Executive Mike Hein, who was once the leading Democratic candidate for NY - 19, was joined by Zephyr Teachout, who IS the Democratic candidate in NY - 19, in speaking out against a plan that increase the number of large oil tankers that could be anchored on the Hudson River.

In New York state government news, a new law aims to protect the Hudson River amid a rise in oil tanker traffic and a legislative report calls for greater action on tick - borne illness.

One new law authorizes the creation of «tanker - avoidance zones» on the Hudson River to restrict where oil tankers can anchor.

One illustration of the present government's lack of joined up thinking on preventing terrorism is the large number of oil tankers that for the last year have been anchoring off the East Anglian coast as a result of a series of government decisions or more recently lack of decisions about them.

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.

Three tanker trucks arrive here on peak production days, loading up with 500 barrels of oil made from 270 tons of turkey guts and 20 tons of pig fat.

So this system works really well and it gets that dirty fuel from the oil well, on to the tanker to the refinery, to your neighbor and into your car, and it's a system; and what that system allows is for ordinary people to do pretty extraordinary things; to get personal mobility at what for many years, was a very cheap price.

According to the unit's postmortem on the spill, the national contingency plan for cleaning up spills would not have coped if large quantities of the tanker's cargo of crude oil had come ashore.

Osborne's swagger seems a bit subdued as we wind our way through the laboratories and testing pools, past scale models of tankers and oil platforms detailed down to the company logos painted on their sides (no photos allowed).

Then, on November 13, 2002, the hull of the Prestige oil tanker broke in half off the north - western coast of Spain, releasing 63,000 tonnes of oil.

In 2001, an oil tanker hit a reef in the Galapagos Islands and spilled potentially disastrous amounts of oil on one of the world's most historic nature reserves.