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Obama administration rejects Keystone pipeline
News Articles Featured | Washington Post | Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Pipelines will fuel plenty of talk
News Articles Featured | Vancouver Sun | Monday, January 02, 2012
Enbridge Inc.'s Northern Gateway pipeline project began life nearly a decade ago as a market study on how to open up Alberta's oilsands resources to ocean trade with Asia. And now, public hearings on the $5.5-billion dual-pipeline proposal are set to begin Jan. 10.
Obama, Congress begin 2012 in oil pipeline dispute
News Articles Featured | Washington Times | Monday, January 02, 2012
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and Congress are starting the election year locked in a tussle over a proposed 1,700-mile oil pipeline from Canada to Texas that will force the White House to make a politically risky choice between two key Democratic constituencies.
Mike Klink: Keystone XL pipeline not safe
News Articles Featured | JournalStar.com | Saturday, December 31, 2011
There has been a lot of talk about the safety of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. I am not an environmentalist, but as a civil engineer and an inspector for TransCanada during the construction of the first Keystone pipeline, I've had an uncomfortable front-row seat to the disaster that Keystone XL could bring about all along its pathway.
‘Secret’ Environment Canada presentation warns of oilsands’ impact on habitat
News Articles Featured | Vancouver Sun | Thursday, December 22, 2011
Contamination of a major western Canadian river basin from oilsands operations is a "high-profile concern" for downstream communities and wildlife, says a newly-released "secret" presentation prepared last spring by Environment Canada that highlighted numerous warnings about the industry's growing footprint on land, air, water and the climate.
Pipeline Politics: How an Oil Sands Project Has Become Key to Environmentalism
News Articles Featured | TIME | Monday, December 19, 2011
Given that there are already more than 2.3 million miles of pipelines in the U.S.—carrying petroleum products, chemicals and natural gas—it might seem odd that so much political energy has been expended on a proposed 1,700-mile pipeline. Yet the controversial Keystone XL pipeline—which would cross the upper Midwest to carry crude from Canadian oil sands down to refiners in the U.S.—has become the single biggest environmental issue facing America. Green groups—pushed hard by activists like 350.org’s Bill McKibben—are using the proposed pipeline as a litmus test for President Obama’s often-questioned commitment to the environment.
Chiquita joins companies avoiding oilsands fuels
News Articles Featured | CTV.ca | Thursday, December 15, 2011
A major American food company is promising to avoid using fuel from Alberta's oilsands.
Big Oil and Canada thwarted U.S. carbon standards
News Articles Featured | Salon.com | Thursday, December 15, 2011
When President Barack Obama decided in early November to delay a decision on TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline until after the next election, America’s environmental movement celebrated one of its biggest victories in recent memory. And no doubt the news came as a blow to Alberta’s tar sands industry, and to Canada’s oft-stated dream of becoming the next global energy superpower.
Environment monitor says oilsands industry cut funding
News Articles Featured | Calgary Herald | Tuesday, December 13, 2011
CALGARY — A group charged with designing environmental monitoring programs in the oilsands region says industry has chopped its funding contributions for 2012.
State Department says GOP bill could kill pipeline
News Articles Featured | Rapid City Journal | Monday, December 12, 2011
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration says a Republican bill to fast-track approval of an oil pipeline from Canada could lead to the project's demise.
Cullen backs Gitxsan chiefs on Enbridge
News Articles Featured | Vancouver Sun | Saturday, December 10, 2011
An NDP leadership hopeful has thrown his support behind the hereditary chiefs of the Gitxsan Nation, voicing his opposition to the controversial Enbridge pipeline.
No ‘credible information’ to support claims oilsands are green, says Environment Canada
News Articles Featured | Canada.com | Friday, December 09, 2011
DURBAN, South Africa — Canada lacks "credible scientific information" to support its claims that oilsands development is environmentally responsible, putting the industry's economic future in jeopardy, says newly-released briefing material prepared for Environment Minister Peter Kent and senior management in his department.
