Sentences with phrase «over oil pipelines»

Despite the Notley government's Climate Leadership Plan, disagreement over oil pipelines has lead to a significant split between the Alberta NDP and its counterparts outside the province.

The conflict over the oil pipeline construction in North Dakota was under the radar for a while but isn't anymore with recent celebrity and media attention.

From a battle over an oil pipeline in the American mid-west to small Australian communities fighting for survival, Indigenous people are harnessing social media to take their stories global.

Not exact matches

The Irvings had their hopes dashed in October when plans were scrapped for the $ 15.7 - billion Energy East pipeline, which would carry over a million barrels of oil from Alberta to Saint John, N.B. every day, some of which would be processed at Irving Oil's refineoil from Alberta to Saint John, N.B. every day, some of which would be processed at Irving Oil's refineOil's refinery.

As pipeline politics came to dominate the North American energy debate, uncertainty over TransCanada's Keystone XL project gave new urgency to other efforts to expand Canada's oil market, including Enbridge's Northern Gateway project.

HOUSTON — The Latest on a court hearing over lawsuit a Louisiana oil pipeline:.

Victoria businessman David Black has thrown yet another log on the fiery debate over Enbridge's Northern Gateway pipeline with his proposal to build a $ 13 - billion oil refinery on the province's northern coast.

Thus the rationale behind North America's most contentious pipeline schemes: TransCanada's Keystone XL and Enbridge's $ 6 - billion Northern Gateway, which aims to pump Alberta oil over the Rockies to a port in Kitimat, B.C.

Consider the brinkmanship over the Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry Albertan oil to Gulf Coast refineries in the United States.

The accident, though, will likely shift the U.S. debate over Keystone away from whether or not building the pipeline would have any significant impact on greenhouse gases (the U.S. State Department says it won't, environmentalists disagree), to whether or not Western Canada's oil is a particularly hazardous fuel.

Protest group Climate Direct Action said the move was in support of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, which has protested the construction of a separate $ 3.7 billion pipeline carrying oil from North Dakota to the U.S. Gulf Coast over fears of potential damage to sacred land and water supplies.

The debate over TransCanada Corp.'s Keystone XL oil pipeline has forced Americans to confront their complicity in the development of Canada's oilsands.

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe said Tuesday his province will support Alberta in the fight over the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion by introducing its own legislation on oil exports.

I have had, over my time at the University of Alberta, representatives from the Alberta Ministries of Environment, Energy, and Finance and Enterprise, many major oil, gas, energy services, pipeline and electricity companies, Epcor, the Pembina Institute, and many others speak in my classes.

The protest also comes amid continued activism by indigenous groups across the U.S., who have rallied over issues ranging from sports mascots to environmental causes such as the Dakota Access and Keystone XL oil pipelines.

Before the recent string of production disruptions, which were caused by militant blockades on pipelines carrying crude from three fields to export terminals, Libya was pumping over 1 million barrels of oil daily, eyeing 1.2 million bpd in output by the end of the year.

Libya and its growing crude oil output became a major worry for OPEC in the last few months when attacks on fields and pipelines largely subsided, allowing the country holding Africa's biggest oil reserves to recover its production to over 1 million barrels.

Stephen Maher: Indignation over pipelines is over the top — B.C.'s concerns are valid and Ottawa has far from failed to back the oil sands.

By capping oil - by - rail traffic in the province while the proposed panel goes over the spill science, the B.C. New Democrats squeeze off pipelines and companies» backup shipping plan.

And both wait to see what, if any actions the federal Liberals take over an oil sands pipeline they've championed and a coast they've vowed to protect, along with electorates in two provinces with profoundly different priorities.

VANCOUVER — British Columbia's court case over the flow of heavy oil through the province could be damaged by the NDP government's previous positions against the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline, says a legal expert.

Provincial disputes over plans to expand the capacity of the existing Trans Mountain oil pipeline could have U.S. consequences, analysis shows.

This, then, brings us to the very same «chicken and egg» issue that has plagued the Keystone XL pipeline (KXL) and that has caused energy (and myriad other) analysts to spill tons of virtual ink over: Are pipelines such as KXL and NGP simply one form of bringing oil to market (alongside rail, for example), or do they enable increased production?

Over the last year, the solar industry added jobs twelve times faster than the rest of the economy, even more than the jobs created by the oil and gas extraction and pipeline sectors combined.

Conventional crude oil prices are now below $ 50 a barrel, and last week Royal Dutch Shell cited «uncertainties» over pipeline shipments in canceling a $ 2 billion oil - sands project.

Viewed in one dimension, the standoff over construction of a 1,172 - mile, $ US 3.8 billion oil pipeline pits thousands of protesters massed on the prairie to safeguard a sole source of tribal drinking water from the fossil fuel industry and its allies in government and finance.

The specifics associated with Notely's proposed ban have yet to be set out (there is no word on whether oil will continue to flow to provinces other than British Columbia), however it is clear that the battle to expand the TransMountain pipeline is far from over.

Kurdistan's prime minister and top energy official travelled to Baghdad earlier this week, intensifying efforts to settle the long - running dispute over exports of oil from the region via a new independent pipeline to Turkey.

CREDO Action deputy political director Josh Nelson also noted that «fierce grassroots activism has stopped these pipelines over and over again,» while David Turnbull, campaigns director at Oil Change International declared the pipelines «will never be completed.»

How else could she argue, as she did in 2016, that Alberta would not support the federal government's pan-Canadian carbon price of $ 50 per tonne (in the year 2022) unless the federal government first approved an oil sands pipeline to tidewater, while also arguing that British Columbia's proposed oil spill safety measures contravene the federal government's clear jurisdiction over interprovincial pipelines?

The prospect of an NDP premier who has said «over my dead body» to the Enbridge Northern pipeline, which would take Alberta bitumen to the Pacific coast — Dix even has a legal team preparing to halt it — has spurred key oil - patch figures into action.

Alberta Premier Rachel Notley makes remarks before the first meeting of the Market Access Task Force, convened to respond to B.C. in the fight over the Trans Mountain oil pipeline, in Edmonton Alta, on Wednesday February 14, 2018.

Over the weekend a pipeline owned by the al - Waha oil company, feeding the port of Es Sider, was set on fire causing the loss of between 70,000 and 100,000 b / d.

British Columbia's demand for oil spill safety enhancements, by contrast, are capable of being designed so as not to usurp the federal government's authority over the approval of interprovincial pipelines.

«The so called military operations code named «OPERATION PULO SHIELD» in the Niger Delta region who our partners in the oil bunkering activities, because presently without been told the former JTF Commander, Major - General Emmanuel Atewe who was arrested by the EFCC last week over pipelines surveillance contract amounts to N8.2 billion in the region, is an eye opener to the federal government that the military are fully involved in illegal bunkering in the area.

Hundreds of protestors opposing a controversial Midwest oil pipeline marched through downtown Syracuse over the weekend.

WARRI — THE PRESIDENCY, weekend, asked Ijaw communities in Gbaramatu Kingdom, Warri South - West Local Government Area, Delta State, where ex-militants carried out a three - day bombing of crude oil and gas pipelines some weeks ago, to hand over to the security operatives, perpetrators of the bomb attack believed to be hiding in their areas.

«During the 30 - day period from November 16th to December 16th, 2015, at least 29 towns, cities and counties in the direct path of the two proposed oil and refined products pipelines — over 85 percent of the total — objected to the Thruway Authority's proposal to act as Lead Agency for the (state Environmental Quality Review Act) process,» town officials wrote.

The Ijaw leader who lamented that the federal government receives over 52 percent of the national revenue, observed that PANDEF was established to help resolve the crises in the region and vandalization of oil pipelines, adding that there is peace in the region today due to the body's efforts.

Yet the practice is widespread, in part because oil prices have been much higher in recent years and because it is hard to find new multimillion barrel reservoirs these days, especially in the picked over U.S. Denbury, based in Plano, Texas, controls more than 1,000 miles of CO2 pipelines and has published reserves of 17 trillion cubic feet of the greenhouse gas, used to pump more than 70,000 barrels of oil a day.

A rail catastrophe has left at least 13 dead in Quebec, and renewed the debate over whether it is better to move oil by freight train or pipeline

Refineries, pipelines and remote fields of oil and gas wellheads can be hard to monitor, but an orbiting satellite traveling over 4 miles per second can measure a facility's emissions more cheaply, more accurately and more often.

However, turning this proof of concept experiment into a system that can be used in actual oil or water pipelines all over the world will require some more efforts in development.

The dense green canopy of the rainforest in eastern Peru and Ecuador hides substantial reserves of oil, and over the last 4 decades a web of wells and pipelines has spread through the forest.

FACED with rising anger from environmentalists last year over his plans for a transcontinental pipeline to deliver treacly Canadian tar sands to Texas oil refineries on the Gulf of Mexico, the CEO of TransCanada, Russ Girling, expressed surprise.

From there, we would follow the pipeline and the oil company thoroughfare called Dalton Highway, or Haul Road, north to Prudhoe Bay, thereby witnessing firsthand, over five days, some of the changes humans have brought to nearly every stretch of land, sea, and sky.

The study, conducted by researchers at Purdue and Cornell universities and other institutions, is one of numerous studies conducted over the past several years that have discovered methane leaking from oil and natural gas wells, pipelines and hydraulic fracturing operations.

Alberta has passed landmark legislation giving it sweeping power to intervene in oil and gas exports that could result in punitive price spikes in British Columbia in the dispute over the Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion.

My view is that, with strengthened standards and oversight, pipelines win out over rail for moving oil or related products.

That reads «Controversy over a proposed oil pipeline from Alberta to Texas is sidetracking us from bigger issues,» which would seem to put you in the no - big - deal camp with regard to the pipeline itself.