'Every plant and tree died:' Huge Alberta pipeline spill raises safety questions
Kiley Kroh, Climate Progress, June 19 2013
Following initial speculation that the leak stemmed from aging infrastructure, officials from Apache Corp. revealed that the pipeline was only five years old and had been designed to last for 30.
Canada raises liability for offshore oil spills to $1-billion
Shawn McCarthy, The Globe and Mail, Jun. 18 2013
OTTAWA — The federal government will raise the bar for oil companies operating off the East Coast and in the Arctic, increasing the limit on their liability for environmental and other damage from a blowout or oil spill to $1-billion.
Crude oil leaked from Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline near Merritt
Canadian Press, Vancouver Sun, June 13, 2013
Toxic waste spill in northern Alberta biggest of recent disasters in North America
Nathan VanderKlippe, The Globe and Mail, Jun. 12 2013
Kinder Morgan files last minute objection to Joint Review’s proposed conditions for Northern Gateway
Robin Rowland, Northwest Coast Energy News, June 5 2013
Kinder Morgan has filed a last minute objection to the Northern Gateway Joint Review Panel’s preliminary conditions for the Enbridge project.
Enbridge (NYSE: EEP) Threatens Bakken Producers
Swagato Chakravorty, Energy and Capital.com, May 29 2013
Requested Pipeline Restrictions
Earlier this month, Enbridge Energy Partners LP (NYSE: EEP) approached the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission with a proposal. If the request receives approval from the FERC, it would mean the proportion of hydrogen sulfide permissible in the crude shipped via Enbridge’s North Dakota pipeline would be significantly lowered.
Map: Another Major Tar Sands Pipeline Seeking U.S. Permit
Lisa Song, InsideClimate News, Jun 3, 2013
Canadian energy giant Enbridge is quietly building a 5,000-mile network of new and expanded pipelines that would achieve the same goal as the Keystone.
Canadian refineries taking more U.S. crude
Zain Shauk, Fuel Fix, May 31, 2013
Canadian refineries are importing U.S. oil at a soaring rate, bringing in crude at four times historic levels as booming shale production continues to reshape the world oil market.
Pipeline dreams turn to ashes for Big Oil
Rick Smith, The Star, May 17 2013
The arrogance of oil companies and the Harper government turned a previously obscure environmental issue into a much more potent concern regarding the erosion of democracy and fairness
Kinder Morgan files preliminary plans for Trans Mountain pipeline expansion
Nathan VanderKlippe & Kelly Cryderman, Globe and Mail, May. 24 2013
More than 91,000 litres of oil spilled from derailed Saskatchewan train
Canadian Press, Star Phoenix, May 22 2013
A freight train jumped the tracks in southeastern Saskatchewan Tuesday and spilled more than 91,000 litres of oil.
Pipeline dreams turn to ashes for Big Oil
Rick Smith, The Star, May 17 2013
The arrogance of oil companies and the Harper government turned a previously obscure environmental issue into a much more potent concern regarding the erosion of democracy and fairness
Oil trains -- pipelines on wheels -- headed to Northwest terminals and refineries from North Dakota fracking
Scott Learn, OregonLive.com, May 13 2013
The boom in North Dakota's Bakken oil field is speeding to the Northwest, a boon for ports and refineries that could bring in upwards of 200 million barrels of crude each year on mile-plus oil trains.
Alberta exploring at least two oil pipeline projects to North
Yadullah Hussain, Financial Post, Apr 25 2013
Hemmed in by unco-operative jurisdictions to the south, west and east, Alberta is looking upward, exploring at least two new northern projects that would help the province get its oil to tidewater, making it available for export to overseas markets.
Plains Midstream charged in 2011 Rainbow Pipeline spill
Karen Kleiss, Edmonton Journal, April 26, 2013
Government acts after receiving Greenpeace report
EDMONTON - One day after receiving an advance copy of a scathing Greenpeace report, the Alberta government charged Plains Midstream Canada in connection with the Rainbow Pipeline oil spill.
Enbridge, Tundra to build Manitoba rail oil terminal
Scott Haggett, Reuters, April 16 2013
CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Tundra Energy Marketing Ltd said on Tuesday it and Enbridge Inc, Canada's No.1 pipeline company, will build a rail terminal near Cromer, Manitoba, capable of handling up to 60,000 barrels per day of oil.
Mayflower, meet Exxon: When oil spilled in an Arkansas town
Edward McAllister, Reuters, Globe and Mail, Apr. 11 2013
MAYFLOWER, ARK. — Warren Andrews had just finished putting up balloons for his stepdaughter’s 18th birthday party at their suburban home in Mayflower, Ark., when his wife came inside and said something was wrong.
After stepping out of his house, and taking one glance, he immediately dialled 9-1-1.
2 file federal suit over Arkansas oil spill
Associated Press, Houston Chronicle, April 5 2013
MAYFLOWER, Ark. — Two women who live near an ExxonMobil pipeline that ruptured last week and spilled thousands of barrels of oil in central Arkansas filed a federal lawsuit against the company on Friday.
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Senate endorses construction of Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada to Texas
By Associated Press, Published: March 22
WASHINGTON — The Senate has endorsed construction of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline that is to carry oil from Canada to Texas oil refineries.
Senators voted 62-37 on Friday for the nonbinding measure. Seventeen Democrats and all 45 Republicans voted yes.
Enbridge says clean-up in Calhoun County beginning to cut into bottom line
WKZO, Kalamazoo, March22 2013
MARSHALL (WKZO) -- Enbridge Energy Partners estimates that the EPA’s order requiring it to dredge sections of the Kalamazoo River where submerged oil remains will push the clean-up bill an additional 175-million dollars, to almost one billion dollars total.
That would be above and beyond what is covered by their insurance policy.
Where Is the Climate Leadership? We Need to Get It Right on Keystone XL
Robert Redford, Huffington Post, March 4 2013
Mr. Secretary, I am disappointed. I thought that we all understood that to fight climate change, we have to be able to say "no" to dirty energy projects. Our friends around the world are looking to us for climate leadership and it starts with drawing the line at tar sands expansion. It also means that we need to give health and environment a fair shake in the environmental review of a dirty energy project such as the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. Yet the draft environmental review prepared by the State Department for Keystone XL misses what folks in industry themselves are saying: the Keystone XL project is necessary for expansion of tar sands. We know this means that Keystone XL will make climate change worse.
Through pristine Jasper Park, Kinder Morgan goes full-speed on Trans Mountain pipeline expansion
Jeff Lewis, National Post, March 13 2013
JASPER, Alta. • The smell of crude oil lingers as Rob Scott eases his pickup truck into a pump station and stops next to a tangle of white pipelines and valves jutting from the ground.
At North America’s refining hub, a thirst for Keystone
Shawn McCarthy, Globe and Mail, Mar. 16 2013
HOUSTON — The cherry-red crane looms emphatically over the grey industrial landscape of the Houston shipping channel where a refinery processes crude oil into gasoline, diesel and other petroleum products.
When to Say No
Editorial, New York Times, March 11, 2013
The State Department’s latest environmental assessment of the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline makes no recommendation about whether President Obama should approve it. Here is ours. He should say no, and for one overriding reason: A president who has repeatedly identified climate change as one of humanity’s most pressing dangers cannot in good conscience approve a project that — even by the State Department’s most cautious calculations — can only add to the problem.
