Oil

Army Corps Sued Again for Failing to Protect Waterways, Endangered Wildlife from Pipeline Construction

3 weeks Sierra Club 0 Comments

New Iteration of Nationwide Permit 12 Greenlights Environmental Destruction Washington, D.C. — Environmental groups sued the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers today over the Trump administration’s plan to fast-track the construction of oil and gas pipelines through wetlands, streams and rivers nationwide. The Corps’ latest issuance of Nationwide Permit 12, which … [continued]

A Prague trolleybus travels under partial overhead wires beside a faded hydrogen station, with the words “Hard Routes Need Architecture, Not Hydrogen.” Prague’s early operating data suggest that selective wiring, smaller batteries and higher utilization can electrify difficult bus routes without hydrogen.

Prague’s Trolleybus Data Show Why Hard Bus Routes Don’t Need Hydrogen

3 weeks Michael Barnard 0 Comments

Transit agencies often reach for hydrogen after starting with real operating constraints and skipping a systems-design step. Hills, long duties, heavy passenger loads, constrained depots and the need to keep buses moving are treated as evidence that batteries cannot do the work, so the route is labelled a hydrogen case. … [continued]

An oversized empty pipeline section overlooks Alberta oil infrastructure, representing a project searching for enough barrels. Alberta’s visible oil-sands growth already has lower-risk exits; the proposed million-barrel west-coast line needs a much larger commercial story.

Alberta’s Million-Barrel Pipeline Needs Missing Barrels

4 weeks Michael Barnard 0 Comments

Canada has made a proposed one-million-barrel-per-day west-coast pipeline more politically real just as the barrel case has become harder to defend. The official project now has a route concept from the Edmonton region to southern British Columbia, Trans Mountain as the public-sector builder and operator, and an ownership structure involving … [continued]

Diesel trucks give way to electric freight lanes and a battery-swapping station, with 2030 targets of 20% of China’s heavy-truck fleet and 18% of highway freight. China’s electric-truck buildout targets the high-use freight diesel market oil forecasts still rely on.

China’s Electric Trucks Are Breaking The Diesel Assumptions In Oil Forecasts

1 month Michael Barnard 0 Comments

Oil forecasts that still depend on sustained Chinese road-fuel growth now have a heavy-truck problem. Passenger electric vehicles have already weakened the gasoline story, but freight diesel is the more important system denominator. Commercial trucks operate for longer hours, carry heavier loads and burn far more fuel per vehicle than … [continued]