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.
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.”
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.
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Hundreds pack Northern Gateway pipeline hearing
CBC News, Jan 10, 2012
$5.5B Enbridge project would send oilsands crude to Kitimat, B.C.
Hundreds of people attended the opening day of public hearings that may determine the fate of a controversial plan to build the Northern Gateway pipeline to the West Coast from Alberta's oilsands in the First Nations community of Kitamaat Village, B.C.
Feds play risky game with pro-pipeline talk
By Barbara Yaffe, Vancouver Sun, January 10, 2012
Remarks about 'radical' groups hijacking regulatory process raises thorny questions about impartiality of Northern Gateway Project review
9:9 Kitimat torn by risks, rewards
By Gordon Hoekstra, Vancouver Sun, January 10, 2012
Indecision reigns as hearings to open
A big part of Tracey John Hittel wants to support Enbridge's proposed $5.5-billion Northern Gateway twin oil and condensate pipelines.
But as public hearings on the project begin in his community today, he is torn.
8:9 Cultural divide: a tale of two provinces
By Peter O'Neil & Trish Audette, Vancouver Sun, January 9, 2012
Alberta champions project, while B.C. weighs economic reward with environmental risks
7:9 What if a supertanker tanks?
By Larry Pynn, Vancouver Sun, January 8, 2012
Seventh in a series
Two-tug escorts. Double-hulled tankers. Radar at critical stretches of coastline. A spill-response capability more than three times greater than now required by Transport Canada.
6:9 Oil spills costly to companies and environment, yet seem inevitable despite technology
By LARRY PYNN, Vancouver Sun, January 6, 2012
Sixth in a series
The transport of oil is big money. But so is a pipeline spill — something Enbridge Inc., proponent of the $5.5-billion Northern Gateway pipeline project, knows painfully well.
5:9 Northern B.C. business community gives tepid support to pipeline project
By GORDON HOEKSTRA, Vancouver Sun, January 4, 2012
Fifth in a series
The Kitimat Terrace Industrial Development Society stands out as the lone business group intervener in northern B.C. offering unqualified support for Enbridge’s proposed $5.5-billion Northern Gateway pipeline.
4:9 Environmental groups line up star power against Northern Gateway pipeline
By GORDON HOEKSTRA, Vancouver Sun, January 3, 2012
Fourth in a series: Opponents run gamut from well-funded U.S. advocates to small-budget local operations
3:9 First nations fiercely opposed to Northern Gateway
By GORDON HOEKSTRA, Vancouver Sun, January 3, 2012
Third in a series: While bands support projects involving natural gas and mines, oil spill threats raise red flags
The Gitga’at First Nation has been saying no to the Northern Gateway pipeline project since 2006.
2:9 Enbridge is a Canadian success story
By Gordon Hoekstra, Vancouver Sun, January 3, 2012
Energy company with a long history in Alberta prides itself on environmental stewardship
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.
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.
Shipping oil to Asia? The route's east, not west
Derek Burney & Eddie Goldenberg, Globe and Mail, Dec. 13, 2011
The handling of the Keystone XL pipeline process by the Obama administration serves as a loud wake-up call for Canada. While America remains our most important market, Prime Minister Stephen Harper has said that Canada should not be a “captive supplier” of energy for the United States. In light of global demand growth, it’s also in Canada’s national interest for Ottawa to act decisively to enable our oil and gas industry to diversify its customer base.
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.
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.
Environmental think-tank calls on Alberta regulators to check up on old pipelines
Canadian Press, 25 Nov 2011
EDMONTON – An environmental think-tank says recent spills in Alberta show it’s time for regulators to review how aging oil pipelines are monitored and maintained.
Nathan Lemphers of the Pembina Institute says there’s a greater chance of more spills because more oil is flowing through older lines.
