Sentences with phrase «tankers project in»

After more than a decade of work, West Coast and our allies celebrated the defeat of the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipelines and tankers project in 2016.

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.

Not exact matches

For example, Chinese investment is pouring into African floating LNG projects, import terminals, tankers and traditional land - based plants such as the $ 12 billion invested in Russia's Yamal facility, used to skirt Western sanctions.

It was immediately following Christy Clark's surprise victory in the last provincial election, an election many thought would play a large role in the fight against tanker projects on the West Coast.

The gas projects have encountered somewhat less opposition, in part because of the perceived lower environmental damage from a gas pipeline or tanker accident, but also because the economic fundamentals of gas exports provide more benefits to the local economy because much of the gas will come from BC fields and the need for construction and operation of LNG facilities on the coast.

On Saturday March 10th, I marched with thousands of people from all walks of life united in our opposition to the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline and tanker project.

Pro-pipeline politicians in Alberta and Ottawa are threatening B.C. with sanctions, lawsuits and even soldiers if we continue to block Kinder Morgan's oil tanker project.

Of the three approved export pipelines, the Trans Mountain expansion project is the least desirable because it must cross rugged, environmentally sensitive terrain and would result in a seven-fold increase in tanker traffic to BC's Lower Mainland, imposing unnecessary risks on sensitive marine environments.

The projected threefold increase in tanker traffic through Vancouver's harbour that will be required to accommodate the increased oil volume poses environmental and health risks that no amount of marine response money or preparation can mitigate.

Exxon budgeted more than $ 1 million over three years for the tanker project to measure how quickly the oceans were taking in CO2.

«We couldn't account for everything because the exchanges between the atmosphere and the oceans weren't fully understood,» Edward Garvey, Shaw's main researcher on the tanker project, said in an interview.

Exxon's Richard Werthamer (right) and Edward Garvey (left) are aboard the company's Esso Atlantic tanker working on a project to measure the carbon dioxide levels in the ocean and atmosphere.

«They spent so much money and they were the only company that did this kind of research as far as I know,» Edward Garvey, who was a key researcher on Exxon's oil tanker project, said in a recent interview with InsideClimate News and Frontline.

Climate change and a projected seven-fold increase in tanker traffic from the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion make immediate action more urgent than ever.

«The tanker project was intended to provide valid, legitimate, scientific data, unassailable hopefully, on key questions in atmospheric chemistry [of] CO2 emissions,» Werthamer said.

The project he worked on — outfitting an ocean tanker to measure the ocean's absorption of carbon dioxide — was a crown jewel in Exxon's research program.

The changes were requested by the oil and gas industry in the hopes that they'd expedite the approval of projects like oil pipelines and tankers, but they had an opposite effect.

Indigenous leaders and supporters will meet at Kwekwecnewtxw — the Watch House and move towards Kinder Morgan's construction zone where many may choose to take action in opposition to the proposed tar sands pipeline and tanker project.

Protests are planned to continue throughout the week as community vows to sustain actions in opposition to Kinder Morgan's pipeline and tanker project

This new wave of protests comes after ten thousand people gathered on Burnaby Mountain last week in support of Indigenous Elders and spiritual leaders who vow the $ 8.9 billion pipeline and tanker project will never be built.

28 April, 2018, Unceded Coast Salish Territories (Burnaby, BC)-- Seven more people have been arrested today in opposition to the Kinder Morgan pipeline and tanker project, joining more than 200 people who have been arrested as part of the Indigenous - led movement that has been growing since March 10th.

15 April 2018, Unceded Coast Salish Territories (Burnaby, BC)-- Responding to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's announcement today that the federal government is in financial talks with Kinder Morgan to finance the Trans Mountain pipeline and tanker project, Protect the Inlet leader and Watch House guardian Will George reiterated firm opposition to the project.

On Sunday, executives in Houston announced they were halting spending on Kinder Morgan Canada's pipeline and tanker project.

In particular, Gitxaala is concerned that the tanker traffic and spill risks associated with the project would threaten the well - being of its communities and members, including their ability to harvest food in their traditional territory and their ability to pass on their culture to their children and grandchildreIn particular, Gitxaala is concerned that the tanker traffic and spill risks associated with the project would threaten the well - being of its communities and members, including their ability to harvest food in their traditional territory and their ability to pass on their culture to their children and grandchildrein their traditional territory and their ability to pass on their culture to their children and grandchildren.

Tankers from the NGP project would pass through the waters of Gitxaala's traditional territory, in close proximity to Gitxaala's community of Kitkatla, an island community approximately 45 km south west of Prince Rupert.

As a result of the City Council motion passing, City of Vancouver staff will research the options for a bylaw that requires Kinder Morgan's pipelines and tankers project, and any similar projects, to have full liability insurance in place before proceeding.

Since the recent federal election there has been much discussion (and as my colleague Eugene Kung notes, an abundance of open letters) about the Liberal party's election promise to «review Canada's environmental assessment (EA) processes and introduce new, fair processes» for reviewing projects (or re-reviewing them, as in the case of major proposals like the controversial Kinder Morgan and Energy East oil sands pipeline and tankers projects).

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.

If built, the Trans Mountain project would dramatically increase shipments of bitumen to a maximum of about 890,000 barrels per day from Alberta to a terminal in Burnaby, a city in Metro Vancouver.The project is also estimated to increase oil tanker traffic by seven times above current levels in the traditional territory of the Tsleil - Waututh Nation.

With the commercial viability of the project seriously in doubt and the federal government's promised legislated tanker ban waiting in the wings, it does feel like this parrot may be on its last legs.

Ongoing pipeline reviews: While there is a strong argument that the FCA may have applied the wrong sections of the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, 2012 in Gitxaala (given that the Enbridge Joint Review Panel was operating under transitional rules), the analysis of the FCA is certainly applicable to more recent environmental assessments conducted by the National Energy Board — like those for the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain and Energy East oil tanker and pipeline projects.