Sentences with phrase «sands pipeline expansion»

A failed two - day court challenge to an anti-democratic, corporate legal attack is the latest chapter in the 2014 Battle of Burnaby Mountain over the Kinder Morgan tar sands pipeline expansion project.

Not exact matches

The Trans Mountain expansion almost triples the capacity of the existing pipeline, which is designed to carry crude from Canada's oil sands to the West Coast.

But when the B.C. government announced this week plans to bar increases to diluted bitumen (oil sands crude) shipments while it launches a new panel study of spill research, the group Stand.earth advised Kinder Morgan investors to call their brokers because this will delay or permanently thwart the company's federally approved Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.

Big Oil is also acutely aware that a major new pipeline project is a critical piece of its huge expansion plans for the oil sands.

At the same time, we draw inspiration and lessons from the victory against Enbridge for the ongoing fight against Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, which would see a sevenfold increase in tar sands tanker traffic in Burrard Inlet and the Salish Sea.

West Coast Environmental Law is working to prevent the expansion of the tar sands by opposing pipelines and tanker projects in BC in order to protect our watersheds, marine and terrestrial ecosystems, our climate, and the human communities that rely on them.

How can it be that blocking the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion — which, if built, will almost assuredly increase the GHG emissions from Alberta's oil sands — would undermine Canada's climate change plan?

How else could he argue, as he did recently in a Maclean's opinion piece, that blocking the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion — and along with it, increased GHG emissions from Alberta's oil sands — would jeopardize Canada's climate change plan and make it impossible to meet our emissions reduction target under the UN Paris Agreement?

to support an expansion of oil sand exports or the proposed Trans Mountain and Keystone XL pipelines.

McKay cites his own recent three - part investigative series for The Energy Mix as «an evidence - based argument that there is no credible business case to support an expansion of oil sand exports or the proposed Trans Mountain and Keystone XL pipelines.

Tar sands producers don't need more pipeline capacity to maintain current production levels, only to enable even further expansion.

Last week, Bill McCaffrey, chief executive of oil sands producer MEG Energy Corp., said his company is considering such exports as it becomes easier to move Canadian crude to Houston through expansions of the pipeline network.

Marc's conservative estimate is that new oil sands production associated with the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion (just the expansion beyond the existing pipeline) would represent an additional 93 megatonnes of global GHG emissions per year.

The same people - power movements that have stalled other ill - conceived tar sands pipeline projects will rise up to tell our governments we need to invest in clean energy, not tar sands expansion.»

«The same people - power movements that have stalled other ill - conceived tar sands pipeline projects will rise up to tell our governments we need to invest in clean energy, not tar sands expansion,» Mike Hudema, a climate and energy campaigner for Greenpeace Canada, said in a statement

The proposal is the latest in a series of planned pipelines and expansion projects as a flood of crude from the oil sands and the Bakken shale oil field stretches existing networks.

«The Mayflower tar sands spill is another warning of the potential costs of the tar sands industry's reckless expansion plans... [and] offers us a small sample of the risk that tar sands pipelines pose to American communities.»

The scientists — more than a quarter of whom are from the United States — issued a declaration of «10 Reasons for a Moratorium» on tar sands expansion and related projects such as the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.

«Nearly three years after the Kalamazoo river spill, tar sands pipeline companies are pushing ahead with major expansion plans without doing due diligence of the risks associated with tar sands diluted bitumen transport on pipelines....

The Keystone XL tar sands pipeline will drive tar sands expansion.

Are you committed to stopping the expansion of pipelines and the development of the tar sands?

Fracking has expanded to the majority of the Mandan Hidatsa and Arikara nations, (Ft. Berthold) and a new pipeline for the Bakken fracked oil is proposed to go from North Dakota into Minnesota, adjacent to the Enbridge pipeline which is seeking expansion from 440,000 barrels to 800,000 barrels per day of dilbit, or tar sands oil.

New pipelines would mean massive tar sands expansion that is incompatible with a safe global climate.

We analyzed how much carbon tar sands oil produces and assessed the climate impact of the Keystone XL pipeline, concluding that building it would unleash a massive expansion of tar sands development and cause a dramatic increase in carbon pollution.

And at the moment every single major pipeline (as well as incremental expansions to existing pipelines) is facing mounting public, legal, and political opposition — all of which has been driven by people power that refuses to accept the devastating impacts of the Alberta tar sands on the climate, the environment, human rights, and communities.

Grand Chief Serge Simon of the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake said, «On behalf of the Treaty Alliance Against Tar Sands Expansion, we thank these organizations for showing leadership in heeding the call of the Mazaska Talks campaign to divest from the banks responsible for DAPL and the four pipelines being proposed to carry even more tar sands oil out of Canada.

For example, the State Department's EIS for Keystone XL claimed that the approval of any one pipeline project is unlikely to have significant climate impacts because other tar sands pipelines are sure to be built in the future, allowing unchecked tar sands expansion in any scenario.

In preparing its EIS for the Alberta Clipper expansion, the State Department has an obligation to analyze the project's cumulative climate impacts in the context of Keystone XL and other past and future tar sands pipelines.

I look at the forecast growth for oil sands output, do the math and come to the conclusion that to move the incremental output to market we need the Keystone AND the Kinder Morgan expansion AND the Northern Gateway AND a pipeline to Eastern Canada.

She said that the aftereffects of oil sands drilling that would come along with the expansion of the pipeline would likely desecrate the freshwater Ogallala Aquifer near her homelands in Pine Ridge, S.D.

She said that the aftereffects of oil sands drilling that would come along with the expansion of the pipeline would likely desecrate the freshwater Ogallala Aquifer near her homelands in Pine Ridge, S.D. «It is with great honor that I come here today to ask President Obama to stand with us for Mother Earth against Father Greed,» Plume said.

Right now, Congress is getting ready to vote on legislation to fast - track the Keystone XL pipeline — a project that would drive a rapid expansion of tar sands operations and put the lives of thousands of wolves at risk.

Thank goodness environmental activists like Fred Felleman are fighting back, opposing plans for massive coal export facilities, seeking to block new LNG export terminals, and attempting to scuttle Keystone XL and TransMountain tar sands oil pipeline expansions.

Reading through the assessment section on Climate Change Impacts, it seems the State Department only took into account the impacts of climate change on the pipeline project, rather than the far more important analysis of the impacts of Keystone XL and tar sands expansion driving climate change disruption.

Nature's main reasoning behind supporting the pipeline seems to be that the whether or not the Keystone XL pipeline is approved, the expansion of the tar sands will continue until there is a broader energy / climate policy in place.

They also show that, even if we just hope to keep the increase below four degrees, then we canâ $ ™ t allow any expansion of the tar sands, and certainly no new pipelines such as Keystone and Northern Gateway to support any expanded use of fossil fuels.

By DirtyOilSands.org Wednesday, April 03, 2013 QUOTE OF THE WEEK «The Mayflower tar sands spill is another warning of the potential costs of the tar sands industry's reckless expansion plans... [and] offers us a small sample of the risk that tar sands pipelines pose to American communities.»

In Canada, its work focuses on national campaigns to freeze tar sands expansion, support opposition to pipelines like Energy East and Kinder Morgan, and work in solidarity with the struggle for Indigenous rights.

There's increasing visibility of the movement in the United States to stop the Keystone XL pipeline, minimize the expansion of Canadian tar sands and fight climate change, but what do Canadians think of all this?

Environmental advocates have long called for an outright rejection of the proposed pipeline expansion, citing past pipeline spills and the high levels of pollution that result from tar sands extraction.

The increased capacity and revenues the pipeline will bring will encourage equity analysts and credit rating agencies to mark up oil - sands producers, reducing their cost of capital and therefore encouraging further expansion.

It will, however, slow the expansion of the extraction of tar sands, though the Koch brothers et al. are busy trying to find other pipeline routes and rail lines that would get the dirtiest of dirty energy out of Canada and into the U.S. via destinations from Michigan to Maine.

The Kinder Morgan pipeline — and the tar sands expansion it would enable — are incompatible with the federal government's commitments under the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) and threaten to worsen the national crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG).

She added the pipeline would mean more tar sands expansion that will impact First Nations everywhere by fueling climate change.

In addition, 150 Indigenous Nations in Canada and the US have signed the Treaty Alliance Against Tar Sands Expansion in opposition to the Kinder Morgan pipeline and all other attempts to allow more tar sands production, including Enbridge's Line 3 and TransCanada's Keystone XL pipelines.

The Kinder Morgan project is part of a matrix of pipelines, refineries and supertankers all geared towards rapid expansion of the Alberta tar sands.