Professional Mariner: Until two years ago, the southerly movement of crude oil by barge between the Midwest and the Gulf Coast was almost nonexistent. As a result of a boom in domestic oil production — particularly in the Bakken Shale formation that stretches from western North Dakota into Montana and Canada — tug and barge companies have jumped into the “black … Read More
Global Partners ends plan to ship more oil down Hudson River
NorthJersey.com: The amount of oil being shipped down the Hudson River may not increase as significantly as expected after a company pulled plans to transfer crude from trains to barges at a facility 50 miles north of the George Washington Bridge. In a letter to New York environmental officials, Global Partners withdrew its permit applications to redevelop a former shipyard … Read More
The Record: Oil on the Hudson
NorthJersey.com: THE SAD, environment-altering saga of the Exxon Valdez was written off the Alaskan coast 25 years ago. The tanker struck a reef in Prince William Sound and spilled millions of gallons of oil into the water, creating an environmental nightmare that took years to clean up. Who knows for sure whether another Exxon Valdez could happen on the Hudson … Read More
New York Times: Bakken Crude, Rolling Through Albany
New York Times: ALBANY — On a clear December morning two years ago, a 600-foot oceangoing oil tanker called the Stena Primorsk left the Port of Albany on its maiden voyage down the Hudson River laden with 279,000 barrels of crude oil. It quickly ran aground on a sandbar. The incident attracted little attention at the time. The ship’s outer … Read More
Crude on the Hudson: NYS must act now to prevent a disaster
NRDC: The future health of the Hudson River depends heavily on decisions that the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation must make soon. That may sound like the-sky-is-falling overstatement, but it’s not. New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo seems pretty worried, too. On January 28, Cuomo recognized the seriousness of at least part of this issue with an executive order calling for … Read More