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.”
Chevron: Offshore rig near Nigeria's oil-rich delta catches fire; search for workers ongoing
By Yinka Ibukun, The Associated Press, Canadian Business, January 16, 2012
LAGOS, Nigeria - An offshore rig exploring possible deep-water oil and gas fields off Nigeria's coast for Chevron Corp. caught fire Monday, and the oil company said officials were still trying to account for all those working there.
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
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.
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.
0:9 Pipelines will fuel plenty of talk
By Derrick Penner, Vancouver Sun, December 31, 2011
Final call on proposal expected at end of 2013, following multitude of hearings and reviews
Enbridge Inc.'s Northern Gateway pipeline project began life nearly a decade ago as a market study on how to open up Alberta's oilsands resources to ocean trade with Asia.
The Oil that comes in from the cold
Humberto Marquez, Interpress Service, Nation of Change, Dec 30, 2011
“Between 13 and 20 percent of the undiscovered oil on the planet is under the Arctic ocean, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS).”
Kinder Morgan ordered to pay $150,000 in Burnaby oil spill
By Mike Raptis, The Province, November 10, 2011
A judge ordered oil giant Kinder Morgan and two other B.C.-based companies Thursday to each pay $150,000 in the 2007 rupturing of a crude-oil pipeline in Burnaby.
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.
Vandals spill 30,000 litres of oil, water
By Matt Dykstra, Edmonton Sun, October 11, 2011
Fairview RCMP are looking for some mischief-makers who mucked about with some oil pipeline valves last week, spilling 30,000 litres of oil and water.
