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.
U.S. Delays Decision on Pipeline Until After Election
By JOHN M. BRODER and DAN FROSCH, New York Times, November 10, 2011
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration, under sharp pressure from officials in Nebraska and restive environmental activists, announced Thursday that it would review the route of the disputed Keystone XL oil pipeline, effectively delaying any decision about its fate until after the 2012 election.
Keystone XL pipeline becomes a political headache for White House
By Juliet Eilperin, Washington Post, October 7, 2011
The question of how best to handle the federal permit for the TransCanada Keystone XL pipeline extension — which will transport crude oil 1,700 miles from Alberta to Texas — has evolved from a backwater process at the State Department to a high-profile political headache for the Obama administration.
Keystone XL: More about the politics than the petroleum
Konrad Yakabuski, Globe and Mail, Oct. 05, 2011
WASHINGTON— For months, the stars seemed pretty well aligned for the Keystone XL pipeline, the proposed $7-billion megaproject that would carry oil-sands crude from Alberta to refineries on the Gulf of Mexico coast in Texas.
The Cronyism Behind a Pipeline for Crude
By BILL McKIBBEN, New York Times, October 3, 2011
LATE last month, the Obama administration unveiled a new tool that lets anyone send a petition to the White House; get 5,000 signatures in 30 days and you’re guaranteed some kind of answer. My prediction: it’s not going to stop people from trying to occupy Wall Street. After the past few years, we’re increasingly unwilling to believe that political reform can be accomplished by going through the “normal channels” of democracy.
Say No to the Keystone XL
Editorial, New York Times, October 2, 2011
Unless good sense intervenes, it looks increasingly likely that the State Department will approve the Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry a coarse, acidic crude oil from northern Alberta in Canada to refineries on the Gulf Coast of Texas. That would be a mistake.
Former Keystone Pipeline Inspector Says Construction Shortcuts Are Tied To Leaks
Tom Zeller Jr., Huffington Post, September 28, 2011
Michael Klink, a 59-year-old civil engineer from Auburn, Ill., says he reported a litany of problems when he was working as a construction inspector at several pumping stations along the Keystone oil pipeline as it was being built in 2009 -- from sloppy concrete jobs and poorly spaced rebar to bad welds and poor pressure testing.
90 Day Public Comment Period on Keystone XL Tar sands Pipeline
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Ignoring Enbridge spill lessons, State Dept. claims Keystone XL rupture would not impact public health
By Eartha Jane Melzer, The American Independent, August 29, 2011
Signals support for increasing use of tar sands oil
U.S. report favors pipeline from Canada
By MATTHEW DALY, AP, Houston Chronicle, August 26, 2011
Canada-Texas oil pipeline clears hurdle
Newsday.com, August 26, 2011
WASHINGTON -- The State Department on Friday removed a major roadblock to a planned $7-billion oil pipeline from western Canada to the Texas coast in a report that says it is unlikely to cause significant environmental problems.
Tar-sands pipeline ‘safety conditions’ are smoke and mirrors
Anthony Swift, National Resources Defense Council, 19 Aug 2011
Proponents of the Keystone XL tar-sands pipeline are using a disingenuous argument to avoid further scrutiny of TransCanada’s proposed pipeline. They argue that the concerns of landowners, farmers, and first responders regarding the safety of Keystone XL are unreasonable because TransCanada has agreed to 57 conditions suggested by pipeline safety regulators that will make it safer than other pipelines.
Yellowstone Oil Spill Fuels Opposition to Proposed U.S.-Canada Pipeline
By ELANA SCHOR of Greenwire, New York Times, July 6, 2011
As cleanup continues along a Montana river despoiled by a 1,000-barrel oil leak, green groups see a new opening to secure stronger pipeline safety rules and to beat back a major U.S.-Canada oil link -- the types of victories that did not materialize after last year's Gulf of Mexico gusher.
Hearing on U.S. pipeline oversight turns to Keystone XL
Elana Schor, E&E News, June 17, 2011
A key House committee yesterday took its first look of the year at federal pipeline-safety rules, but the elephant in the room was a project over which regulators do not yet have power: the controversial U.S.-Canada proposed oil link known as Keystone XL.
TransCanada’s Keystone XL clears hurdle
SHAWN McCARTHY, Globe and Mail, Apr. 15, 2011
The U.S. State Department has rejected many of the key arguments of opponents of TransCanada Corp.’s (TRP-T40.070.380.96%) Keystone XL pipeline, setting the stage for the likely approval of the project later this year.
No to a New Tar Sands Pipeline
Editorial, New York Times, April 2, 2011
Later this year, the State Department will decide whether to approve construction of a 1,700-mile oil pipeline from Canada to the Texas Gulf Coast called Keystone XL. The underground 36-inch pipeline, built by TransCanada, would link the tar sands fields of northern Alberta to Texas refineries and begin operating in 2013. The department should say no.
USA Today: opposing views on Keystone
OUR VIEW: Stop the foot-dragging and build Keystone oil pipeline
Editors, USA Today, March 18, 2011
When oil companies wanted to build a pipeline across Alaska in 1970, critics offered a dozen reasons to say no. The hot oil in the line would melt the permafrost. The route crossed an earthquake fault and forded hundreds of streams and rivers. The huge pipe would block caribou migration. And so on.
NEW REPORT: Tar Sands Pipelines Safety Risks
A JOINT REPORT BY: Natural Resources Defense Council, National Wildlife Federation, Pipeline Safety Trust, Sierra Club, February 2011
AUTHORS: Anthony Swift, Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, Elizabeth Shope, NRDC
Tar sands crude oil pipeline companies may be putting America’s public safety at risk.
Oil pipeline from Canada stirring anger in U.S. Great Plains
David Goldstein, McClatchy Newspapers, February 11, 2011
WASHINGTON — Crude oil from western Canada began flowing through a controversial pipeline in Kansas last week.
New federal forecast leaves Alaska gas out of the picture
Patti Epler, Alaska Dispatch, Dec 22, 2010
Don't bank on a big natural gas line from the North Slope for another 25 years, a new federal forecast predicts.
Worries over defective steel force TransCanada to check oil pipeline
BY Phillip O'Connor, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, December 10, 2010
TransCanada is digging up 10 sections of a new, $5.2 billion crude oil pipeline, including one in Missouri, after government-ordered tests identified possibly defective steel may have been used in the construction.
