tankers – Partisan Issues

How Big Are the Oil Tankers Heading to BC To Take Oil From Trans Mountain Pipeline?

The oil tankers to be used near the Port of Vancouver to transport oil from the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline, are definitely large. However, some groups are claiming that are massive super tankers the we need to be terrified of. Aframax tankers is what will be used and they are the second smallest tankers on the grid. Make no mistake, these are big but they are not the super tankers you see on TV.These Aframax oil tankers will be subject…

Are Oil Tanker Spills Getting Worse? Spill Statistics From 1970 to 2017

You can draw your own conclusions from the charts below but it is not debatable that Oil Tankers used to get into a lot of serious accidents and spill a huge amount of oil. That is just not the case today. As you can see in the chart below, the oil tanker business has become dramatically safer in the last 35 years since tanker traffic became popular in the early 1970’s: The 2017 the tanker oil spill numbers look very…