Sentences with phrase «than pipeline transport»

Crude - by - rail shipments are expected to ramp up in the second half of this year and into the first half of next year to «very material volumes of oil,» Pourbaix said, adding price discounts will improve but will likely remain higher than usual because rail costs more than pipeline transport.

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.

They argued transporting crude by pipeline would be safer than alternatives like rail, and charged Obama with hypocrisy for complaining about the lack of investment in U.S. infrastructure while obstructing an $ 8 billion project.

A number of sources, including pipeline safety experts, believe bitumen to pose a higher spill risk than conventional fuels when it is transported at elevated temperatures or pressure.

So is scrutiny of ExxonMobil and the U.S. pipeline authority, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA): the ruptured pipeline had been installed in the late 1940s, and ran through a densely populated area, yet it was transporting heavy crude, which might be more hazardous than regular oil.

The pipeline operator has more than 84,000 miles of pipelines that transport natural gas, gasoline, and crude oil in the U.S. and Canada.

The region's five natural gas pipelines are more explosive than oil pipelines, and — unlike oil — gas has no alternative mode of transport.

According to its website, this is the «largest energy infrastructure in North America,» owning interest or operating more than 80,000 miles of pipelines that transport natural gas, crude oil and more.

You'd never know from the fighting language used by the B.C. premier that the pipeline has been safely transporting oil through the province for more than 60 years.

Why it's needed: Proponents claim the pipeline would transport bitumen more safely than railways that currently move substantial amounts of petroleum.

One spill is too many but pipelines are much safer than rail for transporting oil By Kenneth P. Green, Elmira Aliakbari and Ashley Stedman The Fraser Institute State regulators in... Read more»

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP)-- The U.S. government has fined Enbridge Inc. more than $ 1.8 million after accusing the Canadian oil transport company of missing deadlines for pipeline inspections following a gigantic oil spill in southwestern Michigan.

«To build a pipeline across America with foreign steel that takes Canadian oil and transports it abroad, while only creating 35 permanent jobs, does foreign nations far more good than it does the U.S.,» Schumer said last month.

«Critics say proposed oil pipeline along New York State Thruway presents bigger danger than rail, barge transport,» Feb. 7, 2015

The nation's aging oil pipelines are roughly 70 times safer than trucks when it comes to transporting fuel.

Cornell University researchers factored in the carbon emissions over the course of natural gas's life cycle when it is extracted using hydraulic fracturing — which includes drilling the wells, erecting the construction sites, building pipelines to transport the gas, fueling the pumps that force the water underground, and transporting the wastewater — and concluded that natural gas is dirtier than coal.

The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) oversees the safety of more than 800,000 daily shipments of hazardous materials in the United States and 64 percent of the nation's energy that is transported by pipelines.

Why is it that TRUCKS have to transport the poil, rather than building robust enough pipelines to carry the oil far enough inland out of harms way?

Extracting, transporting, processing and burning dilbit emits more climate - changing greenhouse gases than conventional crude, so the Pegasus and other dilbit pipelines have become part of the fight to reduce carbon emissions.

Pipelines that carry dilbit typically run at higher pressures than those transporting conventional crude.

One would think that passage of Keystone XL would also meet with the Sierra Club's approval, as well, for several reasons: Wealthier countries and populaces generally protect their enviroonment better than poorer ones; Sierra Club executives and members inevitable all use petroleum products (unless they are living «off the grid»); and pipelines are a proven safe method of transporting oil.

In fact, the State Department noted that other options of getting oil from Canada to the Gulf Coast are generally worse for the environment, a point that was revisited by TransCanada's CEO Russ Girling who pointed to statistics showing that pipelines are a safer way to transport oil than rail, barge, or truck.

Even moving hydrogen by pipeline has its problems, much larger diameter pipes would be needed than to transport a comparable amount (in terms of energy value) of natural gas.

They are going to transport bitumen in the pipeline which they can't by rail so it will come down even dirtier than before.

Included in life cycle carbon are substantial methane leaks from natural gas production and pipelines, the energy for drilling, mining, transport, refining, and disposal that are much more significant for fossil fuels and nuclear energy than for renewables.

They also say pipelines are a safer method of transporting oil than trains, pointing to recent cases of oil train derailments.

This pipeline transports bitumen - loaded tar sands oil, which is more corrosive than oil extracted through other methods — which means much higher risk of leaks.

All of these characteristics make transporting tar sands crude by pipeline much more dangerous than conventional crude, and is something decision makers must carefully consider when they review permits for the growing network of new and repurposed tar sands pipelines that will run through or near hundreds of communities and thousands of streams, rivers, wetlands, lakes and aquifers in British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas.

But transporting oil from western Canada by pipeline is less expensive than shipping by rail, which requires specialized cars and / or specialized handling because of the very high viscosity of oil sands oil.

The State Department's Final Environmental Impact Statement estimates that it costs between $ 3 to $ 9 per barrel more to transport by rail than by pipeline.

Further, the pipeline would help the environment, because moving oil by pipeline produces 42 percent fewer emissions than transporting oil by rail, which is how the oil is being transported in lieu of the new pipeline.

It does not say that one method is better for the environment than the other, but says that a spill is more likely for rail transport but the volume of oil spilled from a pipeline probably would be greater.

One of the arguments used by supporters of the Keystone XL pipeline is that pipelines are safer than transporting the oil via the rail roads, as is currently being done.

Rail transport was 37 more likely to result in injuries requiring hospitalization than pipeline, and road was 143 times more likely.

But that transporting oil by rail is more polluting than a pipeline is not a compelling argument for allowing the pipeline.

Stopping the Keystone XL pipeline is important not just because it will help stop future leaks that, judging from the track record of TransCanada's first pipeline, Keystone 1, as highlighted above, will be much larger than the spills we've seen from rail transport, but it also prevents a massive piece of essentially permanent fossil fuel infrastructure from being established that will no doubt push global warming past the point of no return, as the «terrifying math of global warming» makes startlingly clear.

Why don't they point out that they intend to transform what was once a pipeline route for local consumption to a major export route for diluted bitumen, which is vastly more dangerous than the lighter petroleum products that the Trans Mountain Pipeline has historically transported?