Sentences with phrase «sands oil piped»

A few years back I wrote about plans for the Murphy Oil Refinery in northeastern Wisconsin to expand operations 700 %, to take advantage of tar sands oil piped in from Canada.

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Transporting sand, drilling pipe, and crude oil furnished only 4.5 % of UP's volumes at the peak in 2014.

A: The pipe dreams of eight million barrels of oil a day from the oil sands are almost certainly never going to be achieved.

House Speaker John Boehner, R - Ohio, appealed to Obama to approve the $ 8 billion project, which would pipe oil from the Canadian tar sands to U.S. refineries on the Gulf Coast.

There it would link to existing pipes, to carry oil from Canada's tar sands to refineries on the US's Gulf of Mexico coast.

Photo: Joshua White, 2013; Donald Judd, untitled, 1962, Cadmium red oil, wax, and sand on canvas and wood, and black enamel on asphalt pipe, 50 1/2 x 45 x 9 5/8 in.

The bill, which was prompted by an application from Enbridge Oil to pipe oil from Alberta's tar sands region to Montreal refineries, and then through Vermont's Northeast Kingdom on its way to Portland, Maine, is now on its way through the Vermont House, where it is expected to be passed with flying colouOil to pipe oil from Alberta's tar sands region to Montreal refineries, and then through Vermont's Northeast Kingdom on its way to Portland, Maine, is now on its way through the Vermont House, where it is expected to be passed with flying colouoil from Alberta's tar sands region to Montreal refineries, and then through Vermont's Northeast Kingdom on its way to Portland, Maine, is now on its way through the Vermont House, where it is expected to be passed with flying colours.

As we debate our entire national commitment to climate change action through the proxy of an oil sands pipeline project or two, we should remember every one of us has had a hand in getting the bitumen into that pipe.

What this spill revealed was that no one knew the impact of pushing bitumen, unrefined tar sands oil, through pipes regulated for conventional oil.

The pipe would send hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil sands bitumen from Edmonton to the port of Vancouver each day — this at a moment when oil sands production and the pipelines that move it have become the proxy for a debate about climate change and the fossil fuel industries not just across Canada but worldwide.

With the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline in the middle of its environmental impact assessment by the U.S. State Department, getting a better understanding of what raw tar sands oil in a pipe means for our environment and safety is more important than ever.

He promises to ask Trans - Canada to re-apply for its permit for the rejected Keystone Pipeline, which proposed to move tar sands oil in massive pipes through the Midwest down to the Gulf Coast, and he supports drilling off the Atlantic coast, which was halted by the Obama Administration earlier this year.

If the oil industry wants to pipe these dangerous tar sands oils over our water sheds and aquifers, putting our drinking supply and neighborhoods at risk, they should not only be required to pay into the cleanup fund, they should be paying far more than the 8 cents per barrel they pay for conventional oil since these tar sands oils are not just worse for the environment, but potentially pose a greater risk of spills and are even harder to clean up.

The gut - check issue for McKibben and his supporters — thousands of whom turned out for a mass demonstration in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 17 — is the Keystone XL pipeline, a 3,400 - mile pipe proposed by oil infrastructure company TransCanada that will allow crude oil extracted from the tar sands of Alberta, in southern Canada, to be refined on the Gulf of Mexico.