There are few rules governing abandoned pipelines, which can collapse, explode or leak dangerous chemicals. By Kate Wheeling Some years ago, David Howell got a call from a landowner in Central Texas who had 300 feet of an old oil pipeline buried under his property. It was clearly no longer … [continued]
On Day One, President Biden signed executive orders mandating the government determine the social cost of several pollutants include carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide. He has also canceled the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline.
Endangered species scored a win against the Keystone XL pipeline on April 15th when a federal judged tossed out a permit that the pipeline would need in order to cross hundreds of waterways — rivers and streams.
A federal judge in Montana has ruled that permits for the Keystone XL pipeline are invalid because the failed to take into account the impact on endangered species.
CleanTech activism was everywhere in a week of revelations about energy and decision we’re making around the world to fight anthropogenic climate change.
There are lots of good reasons to oppose the Keystone XL pipeline, but in the end, it may never get built because there are a lack of customers rather than because of protests and lawsuits.
Alberta’s oil industry won a symbolic victory. President Trump calls his approval of the Keystone XL pipeline “a great day for jobs and energy independence” in the United States. Canada’s National Energy Board (NEB) admits the industry is not using its current pipeline capacity and adding more pipelines is “not consistent with the Paris Accord’s commitment to keep (global) warming to two degrees Celsius, or its aspirational goal of limiting it to 1.5 degrees Celsius.”
Originally published on Planetsave. The foreign oil firm TransCanada has filed a lawsuit against the US government under NAFTA rules, seeking $15 billion in compensation for the rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline project. To put that in plain language, a foreign corporation is suing the US government for $15 … [continued]
The top contenders for the Republican presidential nomination have repeatedly indicated extreme anti-environmental policy preferences, demonstrating to an unprecedented degree lack of concern for the tremendous health costs of pollution. (Note: A study led by the former — now deceased — head of the Harvard Medical School found that the health … [continued]
President Obama dropped plenty of hints about the demise of the Keystone XL oil pipeline going back to 2013, when he appointed John Kerry to the State Dept.
