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Protests are planned for the weekend after the US Army Corps of Engineers approved a permit for the build the 162-mile Bayou Bridge pipeline which will carry crude oil across the wetlands of Louisiana. The US Army Corps of Engineers said it would only issue a permit for the 24-inch diameter pipeline after it had […]
A resistance camp in Pennsylvania called Camp White Pine is seeing signs of intimidation in its battle against the Mariner East 2 pipeline and fracking as a whole, as it looks to thwart two oil giants’ plans to finish the pipeline. Camp White Pine (CWP), the group claiming to defend the land from Energy Transfer […]
Terray Sylvester/Reuters Nebraska’s Public Service Commission voted 3-to-2 in favor of the Keystone XL pipeline. TransCanada still needs to make a final investment decision on the project. There are several hurdles that need to be cleared before TransCanada breaks ground. The state of Nebraska just cleared one of the last hurdles for the Keystone […]
Todd Korol/Reuters Nebraska regulators on Monday approved Keystone XL, a 1,180-mile-long (1,900-kilometer) extension of the existing Keystone Pipeline operated by TransCanada Corp. However, the 3-2 vote in favor of expanding the pipeline followed a leak of 210,000 gallons of oil just days prior. That oil gushed from a section of Keystone in South Dakota before […]
A leak in the Keystone Pipeline released at least 210,000 gallons of oil, and the pipeline has since been shut off. The leak is now covered, according to TransCanada, the sole owner of the pipeline. The leak occurred on Thursday morning in an agricultural area in Marshall County, South Dakota. The oil has not entered […]
Published time: 16 Nov, 2017 16:49 Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was interrupted by two environmental activists during a Q&A session at the United Nations Peacekeeping Defence Ministerial conference in Vancouver. The two young activists challenged Trudeau for his hypocrisy on the environment, specifically for his approval of Kinder Morgan’s controversial Trans Mountain pipeline last […]
The Kingdom of Bahrain has claimed that Friday’s explosion on the only pipeline that supplies oil from Saudi Arabia was somehow linked to Iran, opening a new chapter of hostilities between Tehran and the Sunni Gulf states. “The incident was an act of sabotage and a dangerous act of terrorism aimed at harming the higher […]
Published time: 20 Oct, 2017 06:34 Edited time: 20 Oct, 2017 06:43 Residents of the Moscow area woke early to a gas pipeline fire, local emergency services said. Numerous videos have been posted on social media of spectacular flames shooting up into the morning sky. The incident took place in the town of Lukhovitsy in […]
Published time: 18 Oct, 2017 09:40 More than 1,095 kilometers (km) of the eastern route or the Power of Siberia gas pipeline is now built, according to the Russian energy major Gazprom which added that construction is ahead of schedule. Read more The company plans to build 1,300 km of the 3,000 km long pipeline […]
Associated Press/James MacPherson DAPL developer picks up the tab for North Dakota’s policing costs — and it ain’t cheap. Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners wired the state $ 15 million Thursday to help cover law enforcement expenses associated with the protests over the Dakota Access Pipeline. The funds will help alleviate the more than $ 22 […]
