Next Canadian Tar Sands Pipeline Headed for Maine?
Martin Sheer, Public News Service, February 9, 2012
PORTLAND, Maine - Concern is growing about a plan to pipe tar sands crude oil from Ontario to Portland - especially in the wake of the controversial postponement of a similar project, the Keystone X-L pipeline, by President Obama last month.
Bombshell Study: High Methane Emissions Measured Over Gas Field “May Offset Climate Benefits of Natural Gas”
Joe Romm, ThinkProgress.org, Feb 8 2012
Air sampling by NOAA over Colorado Finds 4% Methane Leakage, More Than Double Industry Claims
Analysts slash price forecasts for natural gas
Joseph Silha, Reuters, Globe and Mail, Jan. 31, 2012
The average price of U.S. natural gas in 2012 should hit its lowest level in 13 years as mild winter weather slashes demand and record production weighs heavily on the market for most of the year, a Reuters poll found.
Sign BOLD Nebraska's "Thanks for Stopping the Pipeline" poster to President Obama
BOLD Nebraska, January 18, 2012
President Obama made the monumental announcement that he is denying TransCanada's permit request to build the Keystone XL export pipeline. BOLD thanks "all the farmers, ranchers, urbanites, treehuggers, grandmas, students, artists, business owners and everyone in between who made this happen. All of your work writing letters, sending emails, calling, getting arrested, surrounding the Governor's Mansion, and testifying at State Department hearings led to this right decision for our country, land and water."
To sign the card, please fill out the form on BOLD's website.
U.S. rejects Keystone XL but lets TransCanada reapply
Shawn McCarthy & Nathan VanderKlippe, Globe and Mail, Jan. 18, 2012
OTTAWA, CALGARY — The Obama administration has turned down TransCanada Corp.’s (TRP-T41.89-0.47-1.11%) proposed Keystone XL project, but has invited the company to reapply for a permit once it has finished rerouting the pipeline around an ecologically sensitive area of Nebraska.
TransCanada to reapply for Keystone XL permit
JournalStar.com (Lincoln, Nebraska), January 18, 2012
President Barack Obama says he's denying an application for the Keystone XL pipeline because a GOP-mandated deadline didn't allow time for a full review.
Keystone XL Pipeline Would Be Hard to Kill, Analysts Say
Neela Banerjee, McClatchy News Report, January 16, 2012
“Americans’ thirst for oil probably will push the administration and TransCanada Corp. to find a way to transport Canadian crude across the United States even if it’s not through a pipeline called Keystone XL, industry analysts said.”
How Much Liquefied Natural Gas Should the US Export?
Stuart Burns, Ag Metal Miner, January 12, 2012
Capitalism is a wonderful thing. It can create so much wealth, spur so much research and progress that we sometimes take on blind faith that unrestrained pursuit of profit is a good thing.
As deadline nears, friends and foes of Keystone XL pipeline step up campaigns
By Juliet Eilperin, Washington Post, January 14, 2012
As next month’s deadline nears for the Obama administration to make a decision on the Keystone XL pipeline, interest groups on both sides have launched aggressive campaigns aimed at swaying public opinion.
Russian tanker hits ice 300 miles from Nome
By MARY PEMBERTON, Associated Press, Anchorage Daily News, January 7th, 2012
VOYAGE TO NOME: Winter fuel oil delivery to coast would be a first.
A Russian tanker carrying fuel for an iced-in Alaska city that without a delivery could run out of crucial supplies before winter's end encountered ice early Friday in the eastern Bering Sea.
Liquefied gas exports could fuel demise of TransCanada's Alaska-Alberta pipe dream
By Rebecca Penty, Calgary Herald, January 6, 2012
TransCanada Corp., is in talks with Alaska's top energy producers on plans to export natural gas in liquid form by tanker, as its long-standing vision to link the state's vast quantities of northern gas with the North American pipeline system increasingly appears to be in jeopardy.
Company pulls out of LNG project
Jeff Montgomery, News Journal, DelawareOnline.com, Jan 6, 2012
N.J. terminal seen as unprofitable
A New York energy company has quietly surrendered its controversial authorization for a liquefied natural gas import terminal along the Delaware River in New Jersey, opposite Claymont, saying low domestic gas prices and rising global demands make the venture's profitability "unlikely."
Fracking Cracks the Public Consciousness in 2011
by Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, Dec. 29, 2011
This is part of our year-end series, looking at where things stand in each of our major investigations.
This was the year that "fracking" became a household word.
New Look at Pipeline Blasts
By DANIEL GILBERT, Wall Street Journal, December 30, 2011
Regulators, Preparing to Tighten Safety Rules, Focus on Combination of Causes
Judge says Alaska pipeline has proven reserves to operate until 2065; puts value at more than $9 billion
Dermot Cole, Fairbanks News Miner, Dec 30, 2011
Superior Court Judge Sharon Gleason of Anchorage issued a much-anticipated decision today that the trans-Alaska pipeline is worth about 9 times as much as the oil companies contend and there are enough proven oil reserves on the North Slope to keep it operating until 2065.
Bitter Twist in Louisiana Family’s Long Drilling Fight
CAMPBELL ROBERTSON, Ocala.com, December 29, 2011
ERATH, La. — It began as a landlord-tenant dispute, Louisiana style.
Cheniere plans second U.S. LNG export terminal
By Ben Lefebvre, Wall Street Journal, December 16, 2011
HOUSTON (MarketWatch) -- Cheniere Energy Inc. said Friday it is taking steps to develop a second terminal along the U.S. Gulf Coast to export liquefied natural gas.
The move would help the heavily indebted company tap into booming natural-gas production in the area.
Deloitte: Assumed US LNG export volumes could boost gas prices
By Paula Dittrick, Oil & Gas Journal, 12/16/2011
HOUSTON - If the US were to export 6 bcfd of LNG in the future, a world gas model developed by Deloitte MarketPoint LLC estimates a weighted-average price impact of 12¢/MMbtu on US prices during 2016-35, Deloitte LLP announced Dec. 15 at its annual Oil & Gas Conference in Houston.
Pipelines need a watchful eye
Editorial, Philadelphia Inquirer, December 13, 2011
No one should fault Pennsylvanians living amid the state's natural-gas boom for finding it deeply troubling that the miles and miles of pipeline being strung across their communities will never see a government inspector.
Burning Love
Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker, December 5, 2011
Americans have never met a hydrocarbon they didn’t like. Oil, natural gas, liquefied natural gas, tar-sands oil, coal-bed methane, and coal, which is, mostly, carbon—the country loves them all, not wisely, but too well. To the extent that the United States has an energy policy, it is perhaps best summed up as: if you’ve got it, burn it.
Proposed Ore. LNG terminal gets export permit
By JEFF BARNARD, San Jose Mercury News, December 7, 2011
A company that originally wanted to import liquefied natural gas from overseas through the Oregon port of Coos Bay received a preliminary permit Wednesday allowing it to switch to exporting.
As Americans max out on tar sands, more pipelines head for Vancouver and B.C.
Barry Saxifrage, Vancouver Observer, November 29, 2011
Americans are in deep trouble and their years of absorbing the tar sands growing production are over. This is a two part series. In today’s first part we explore the dramatic decline in American oil imports that set the stage for the Keytsone XL pipeline protests and delay. Tomorrow’s second part will explain just what that means for Vancouver and BC as a proposed string of gigantic tar sands pipelines heads for our coast.
Six U.S. states abandon carbon-trade partnership
By Gordon Hamilton, Vancouver Sun, November 18, 2011
B.C.'s future in ambitious greenhouse-gas deal unclear
The heated competition for shale gas
By Andrew Maykuth, Philadelphia Inquirer, November 13, 2011
The shale-gas bonanza is fueling a hot competition among businesses that want to claim a share of what is promoted as an abundant long-term energy source.
Clean energy: Costs rising for California consumers
By Garance Burke and Jason Dearen, Associated Press, Christian Science Monitor, November 13, 2011
Clean energy got a boost from a 2006 California law mandating it. But some clean energy projects are so expensive, they'll raise consumers' utility bills for decades.
