Sentences with phrase «spills along the pipeline»
We have two main concerns: the risk of oil spills along the pipeline, which would traverse highly sensitive terrain, and the fact that the extraction of petroleum from the tar sands creates far more greenhouse emissions than conventional production does.
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Both pipelines face two forms of opposition: widely dispersed environmentalists worried about climate change, and stakeholders along the route more concerned about oil spills.
Opponents of the pipeline fear potential oil spills along the B.C. coast and argue that Indigenous communities have not given their consent to the project, violating their constitutional rights.
He said ten pumping stations along the pipelines will be designed to fully contain spills, and said previous spills should be considered in context: 5,560 barrels spilled from more than 750 million barrels of petroleum piped by his firm in 2006.
Public protests over the last two years have highlighted the risks of spills along the route from Alberta to BC's coastal waters, and the climate impacts of building new pipelines to enable massive increases in bitumen production and exports.
Transportation - Much of the pipeline will pass along the Thruway right - of - way, an «unprecedented» use of that land, with construction or a spill potentially having an impact on traffic as well.
Exxon must also provide spill response training for certain Pegasus employees in 2015 and 2017, and position spill response equipment in three locations along the pipeline.
Meanwhile, a spill from the pipeline — a virtual inevitability — would threaten tens of thousands jobs of Americans living along its route.
It is also home to several pipelines carrying fossil fuels from Canada to Texas, and is the site of the largest inland oil pipeline spill in U.S. history, the 1 - million barrel tar sands crude leak along the Kalamazoo River in 2010.
It occurred just 80 miles west of the largest inland oil pipeline spill in U.S. history, the 1 - million barrel tar sands crude leak along the Kalamazoo River in 2010.
The commission's decision came just days after the existing Keystone pipeline in South Dakota, a 7 - year - old pipeline also owned by TransCanada, spilled an estimated 210,000 gallons, something that could give landowners along the recently approved route in Nebraska pause in granting easements.
On World Water Day, we are here to protect the water from pipeline spills, the consequences of which we have experienced first - hand in Alberta and which threaten precious water all along the pipeline route.»