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New BP Spill, This Time in Alaska
By Miles Grant, National Wildlife Federation
Monday, July 18, 2011
We’re just learning about America’s second big oil spill in just the last month, this time new BP spill in Alaska:
Group of influential Senators calls for halt in permitting process for Keystone XL
By Elizabeth Shope | NRDC
Friday, July 15, 2011
Today, a group of influential Senators wrote to the State Department calling for a halt in the Keystone XL pipeline permitting process. Senator Whitehouse led the letter, with Senators Boxer, Cardin, Lautenberg, Leahy, Menendez, and Wyden all joining to express their concerns about the proposed pipeline and its permitting process, focusing in on pipeline safety and routing issues.
Tagged with: keystone xl, transcanada, pipeline, state department, senate
Tar sands implicated in Yellowstone River pipeline spill
By Anthony Swift | NRDC
Friday, July 15, 2011
Exxon-Mobil has admitted that the Silver Tip pipeline which ruptured and spilled 42,000 gallons into the Yellowstone River was used to move tar sands crude. Until yesterday, the company’s position had been that the pipeline carried sweet, low sulfur crude that did not originate from Alberta. On Thursday, Exxon spokesman acknowledged that their previous statements had been incorrect.
Tagged with: oil spill, montana, exxon mobil, yellowstone
Senators Scrutinize Safety of Proposed Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline
By Ryan Salmon, NWF
Friday, July 15, 2011
No study has been done nor regulations developed for tar sands pipelines, and pipeline safety regulators have not been involved in the environmental review for TransCanada’s proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. This is according to testimony of Ms. Cynthia Quarterman, Administrator of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), before Congress during a hearing on pipeline safety last month. We need look no further than Michigan’s Kalamazoo River, which is still being cleaned up a year after an Enbridge pipeline spilled nearly a million gallons of tar sands crude, to know it’s long overdue.
Tagged with: keystone xl, transcanada, pipeline, congress, pipeline and hazardous materials safety administration
Big Oil paid $180,000 for the Energy Ministers meeting and all Greenpeace gave them was this t-shirt
By Greenpeace
Thursday, July 14, 2011
When Canada’s federal and provincial energy ministers sit down on Monday to talk about a national energy strategy, a big chunk of the tab will be picked up by Canada’s biggest oil companies.
Tagged with: canada, greenpeace, energy minister, meetings
Los Angeles Times editorial gets it right on the risks of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline
By Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, NRDC
Thursday, July 14, 2011
This morning the LA Times published an editorial saying that the environmental risks of TransCanada’s proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline should be thoroughly studied and mitigation measures put in place. The LA Times is correct: there is no rush to make a decision on this pipeline that would carry toxic tar sands oil from Canada to the U.S. Gulf coast crossing over 1000 US rivers and streams and going through the fragile Nebraska Sandhills and the Ogallala Aquifer.
Tagged with: keystone xl, transcanada, pipeline, ogallala aquifer
Pipeline Safety Concerns Heat Up Amid the Proposed Keystone XL Pipeline
By Sierra Club
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Two weeks after the Exxon pipeline ruptured into the rising waters of the Yellowstone River and there's still no end in sight for Montanans as they work to clean up the crude oil contaminating their land. Pastureland has been ruined, livestock forced to move, and a handful of local residents have reported symptoms of hydrocarbon poisoning. Yet even as the controversy and cleanup continues, another oil pipeline company, TransCanada, is actively lobbying to build the Keystone XL pipeline, a monster three times as large, underneath the iconic Yellowstone River.
Tagged with: keystone xl, transcanada, pipeline, montana, yellowstone
University of Nebraska study shows State Department review of Keystone XL pipeline deeply flawed
By Anthony Swift | NRDC
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Today Dr. John Stansbury, a Professor of Environmental and Water Resources Engineering at the University of Nebraska, released a study of the worst case spill scenarios for TransCanada’s proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. His study, the first independent analysis of the worst-case spill scenarios for the Keystone XL pipeline, cites significant flaws in TransCanada’s methodology for calculating both the frequency and severity of expected spills on Keystone XL. The study finds that Keystone XL will have more than eight times as many spills, take more than ten times as long to shut down in the event of a rupture and spill more than six times as much raw tar sands as TransCanada estimates.
Tagged with: keystone xl, transcanada, pipeline, state department
U.S. Not Ready for Keystone XL Worst-Case
By Tony Iallonardo | NWF
Monday, July 11, 2011
Are giant Canadian oil companies fudging their safety analyses to get the mother of all pipelines built across the U.S.? And what could happen if a mega-pipeline has a catastrophic Fukushima-style disaster?
Tagged with: keystone xl, transcanada, pipeline
Wall Street Journal support for tar sands pipeline based on mirage
By Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, NRDC
Thursday, July 07, 2011
The Wall Street Journal editorial of July 7, 2011 (Jobs in the pipeline) sets up jobs and energy security against protecting our air and water resources in throwing its support to TransCanada’s Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. Yet, the editorial’s support for the pipeline is based on a mirage, not on true jobs or energy security. And it barely touches on the darker side of tar sands oil: increased global warming pollution, oil spills and Boreal forest destruction. The best plan for America to achieve jobs and energy security is through investment in clean energy. Only clean energy will give us the homegrown, long-term economic prosperity, environmental safety and energy security that we need.
Tagged with: keystone xl, transcanada, pipeline, natural resources defense council, wall street journal
