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Timeline of the 2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests – Widespread protests in Canada in 2020; Trans Mountain pipeline – Oil pipeline in southwestern Canada; Treaty rights – Indigenous rights stipulated in treaties with settler societies; Oka Crisis – 1990 land dispute between a group of Mohawk people and the town of Oka, Quebec ...
February 15 - Over 200 people block Macmillan Yard - the second largest railyard in Canada - in solidarity [44] February 15 – Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller meets the Mohawks in a ceremonial encounter on the CNR train tracks to renew a 17th Century treaty between the Iroquois and the British Crown known as the Silver Covenant Chain.
The pipeline was shut down in the U.S. by the Biden Administration. The U.S. portion of the Keystone Pipeline included 1,744 kilometres (1,084 mi) of new, 30-inch-diameter (760 mm) pipeline in North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, and Illinois. [28] The pipeline has a minimum ground cover of 4 feet (1.2 m). [29]
In Canada, over 99.99 percent of the oil transported by federally regulated pipeline arrives safely every year. [5] First, the oil is collected at the wellhead, or some area where the oil is stored. From the wellhead it is pumped across the land through a pipe, and is discharged at its destination which typically is a refinery.
2010: Dalian Pipeline disaster – The explosion of two petroleum pipelines and subsequent fire in the port of Dalian, in northern China's Liaoning province on Saturday, on July 17, 2010, caused fatalities, damages and an ecological disaster, releasing 11,000 barrels of oil into the Yellow Sea, and covering up, according to different sources, from 50 to 430 km 2 of sea and coast lines.
The Canadian Energy Pipeline Association (CEPA), whose 2019 members included Alliance Pipeline (natural gas), ATCO Pipelines (natural gas), Enbridge, Inter Pipeline, Pembina Pipeline (oil and natural gas), Plains All American Pipeline known also as Plains Midstream Canada, TC Energy (oil and natural gas), TransGas's TransGas Pipelines, Trans Mountain pipeline, Trans Northern Pipelines, and ...
In 1950 its pipelines were operational and in 1953 it was a publicly traded company at stock exchanges in Toronto and Montreal. By the late 1950s its main pipeline was almost 2,000 miles (3,200 km) long handling about 200,000 barrels (32,000 m 3) of oil per day in certain sections. In the late 1960s refineries in the US and Canada demanded more ...
The pipelines would have crossed nearly 800 streams and rivers, and oil tankers would have had to navigate rough waters and jagged coasts. [3] A pipe leak or oil tanker spill – which the Yinka Dene Alliance deemed "inevitable" – could devastate the water supply, imperiling the ecosystem and local communities' health. [ 4 ]