Sentences with phrase «tanker carrying»

The legendary hero, Solid Snake, sets out in pursuit of a tanker carrying a new Metal Gear prototype.

A tanker carrying crude oil from Iraq's Kurdish region anchors near Ashkelon, Israel.

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.

A loud noise was said to have been heard at about midday after a diesel tanker carrying 33,000 fuel fell and exploded.

Whether they realize it or not, British Columbians may soon see more and larger tankers carrying bitumen travelling through B.C. waters.

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.»

It would still mean hundreds more tankers carrying much more crude oil through the Gulf Islands, past Victoria and up the west side of Vancouver Island.

The law creates minimum conditions for tankers carrying petroleum can travel on the river and guidelines for areas to avoid.

«The bountiful and globally significant coastline can not bear an oil spill... we declare that oil tankers carrying crude oil from the Alberta Tar Sands will not be allowed to transit our lands and waters.»

Not exact matches

Prime Minister Stephen Harper lent support to the 1,200 - kilometre, $ 6 - billion pipeline that would carry more than 500,000 barrels a day of crude oil from Edmonton through the Rockies to Kitimat, B.C., where it could be transported by tanker to markets in the U.S. and Asia, including China.

Train tracks and tanker cars weren't built to accommodate trains carrying loads of heavy crude oil, making the trains more likely to derail.

The companies say the pipeline would carry Bakken shale oil more cheaply and safely from North Dakota to Illinois en route to U.S. Gulf Coast refineries than it could be shipped by railroad or tanker trucks.

• Kinder Morgan plans to dredge Second Narrows channel to allow larger Suezmax tankers that can carry 1 million barrels of crude — four times as much as spilled from the Exxon Valdez.

One pipe would carry tar sands - produced petroleum from Edmonton to Kitimat, where it would then be transported to tankers.

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.

Dozens of unit trains carrying more than 100 tankers of crude oil travel through New York each week.

December 2013, West Nyack A train carrying empty oil tanker cars collided with a truck at an at - grade crossing in West Nyack, Rockland County.

The KC - 130 tanker based out of Stewart ANGB and carrying 15 Marines and a Navy corpsman crashed about 85 miles north of Jackson, MS

«Governor Cuomo has taken bold and decisive action by signing into law legislation that protects the Hudson River from barges and tanker ships that carry dangerous petroleum - based products and other hazardous materials,» Ned Hudson, president of the environmental group Scenic Hudson, said Tuesday in a statement emailed to the media.

Carrying a cargo of 11,000 tonnes of lubricating oil, the tanker broke into three parts and has been a chronic source of oil pollution over many years.

14 Speaking of tankers, that truck you're trying to pass may be carrying 4,000 gallons of gas, which, if in a crash, can explode with the energy of 200 tons of TNT.

Honey bees are the tanker of the skies, carrying thirty percent of their weight in pollen per foraging trip using specialized orifices on their body.

It's another (read: fantastic) day in the life of Spider - Man as he slingshots his way through tight corridors lined with looming edifices and over the heads of captivated (and conveniently placed) on - lookers — plucking children, police officers, even a desperately lonely and low - level OsCorp engineer named Max Dillon (Jamie Foxx) out of harm's way as an out - of - control tanker truck carrying plutonium samples and driven by a crazed Aleksei Sytsevich (Paul Giamatti) smashes through the city.

In this low - budget horror - comedy, snowy weather causes a police vehicle carrying a convicted murderer to collide with a tanker containing an acid solution.

It would take 15 trucks carrying compressed H2 to serve the same number of vehicles which can be served by a single gasoline tanker.

You probably know we earned our reputation when one of our tankers, the Indies Unlimited Valdez, carrying a load of snark - enhanced truth, sprang a leak and coated random penguins with ugly, sticky facts.

The end - June balance sheet has $ 201.6 m of vessels (for 8 tankers, this carrying value looks about right, perhaps even conservative) & $ 16.5 m of vessels under construction.

A new apartment building rises high above a line of tanker trucks carrying diesel to fuel a thermal electric plant in Rio Branco, the capital of Brazil's western-most Amazonian state of Acre.

If approved, the almost 1200 - kilometre - long twin pipeline would carry about 525,000 barrels of petroleum per day from Alberta to the B.C. coast for shipment by tankers.

The spill, estimated to be roughly 4,000 barrels (or 168,000 gallons), began after a tanker vessel carrying heavy fuel oil collided with a cargo ship in Galveston Bay, an estuary connected to the Gulf of Mexico.

Modern double hull oil tankers are not as susceptible to spills, but the many small ships (especially low budget, unlicensed ships) carrying goods of all types can and do run aground, causing smaller spills.

Each day the world uses the energy equivalent of the oil carried in 182 oil tankers, each with a 200,000 - ton capacity, or the energy output of 370,000 Hoover Dams.

In the old energy economy, pipelines carried oil from fields to consumers or to ports, where it was loaded on tankers.

Three tanker cars carrying crude oil that derailed were leaking oil.

Another factor contributing to the number of truck accidents, and the injuries resulting from them, is the fact that many of these vehicles are tanker trucks or HAZMAT trucks, which carry liquid and / or flammable cargoes.

If they're driving a tanker full of potentially explosive fuel or carrying children on a school bus, the stakes are much higher than they are for someone driving a small motor vehicle.

The average tanker that would move bitumen from the Trans Mountain Pipeline would carry 750,000 barrels, or 119 million litres.

After all, our environmentally sensitive Court concedes that if New Jersey had approved a wharf of equivalent dimensions, to accommodate tankers of equivalent size, carrying tofu and bean sprouts, Delaware could not have interfered.

The van carrying the workers ended up hitting the tanker truck and another vehicle.

The announced ban on tanker traffic carrying crude oil on the north coast represents an opportunity for the government to make it impossible for all practical purposes for the Northern Gateway project to operate.

Extremely large tankers are very susceptible to roll - over accidents, which can be even more problematic given the fact that they carry hazardous materials that could be flammable or capable of releasing toxic fumes.

Tanker Truck Accidents: Tanker trucks are the oversized vehicles designed to carry liquids or gases, some of which could be hazardous.

One train was carrying mostly empty tankers of ethanol.

In the context of environmental assessment, for example, this may mean assessments carried out by collaboratively managed institutions such as the plethora of co-management boards enabled by northern land claims agreements (see for example those established under the Mackenzie Valley Resource Management Act), or it may mean enabling parallel assessments by Indigenous nations and the Crown (for an example see this independent assessment by the Tsleil Waututh Nation of the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain tankers and pipelines project), followed by reconciliation negotiations to reach agreement on outcomes.

We also carry CDL Class A training (the highest possible truck licensing) classes for additional endorsements such as: driving tankers, triples, passengers or hazardous materials.

Fuel Station Attendant VONS — Escondido, CA 2007 — 2011 • Provide exceptional customer service per policies • Received payments and operated automated cash register and card scanner to handle transactions • Managed cash drawer, coupons, and checks • Received gas delivery from a tanker truck • Carried out the safety inspection of pumps • Cleaned work area, building floor, oil spills from the parking area