Tag: Pipelines
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Aerial Video of Alabama Oil Spill Exposes Inadequate Cleanup
By Melissa Troutman Efforts to clean up an Alabama oil spill are under scrutiny after a train carrying 2.7 million gallons of North Dakota Bakken crude oil exploded last month, spilling into wetlands just outside the town of Aliceville. Photojournalist John Wathen captured video of cleanup efforts one week after the Nov. 7 derailment, and…
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Tar Sands Industry Eyes Great Lakes for Cheap Shipping
As tar sands extraction continues and proposals for expanded pipelines from Canada into the U.S. form a backdrop, the Great Lakes themselves could become the next frontier for moving crude oil to a vast Midwest refinery network. [caption id="attachment_313072" align="alignnone" width="464"] Tar sands crude refiners in the U.S. Midwest[/caption] The region faces a critical choice…
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13 Arrested Blocking Highway at Site of Spectra Energy Pipeline
Thirteen people were arrested yesterday for blocking the West Side Highway adjacent to the site where Spectra Energy has completed a natural gas pipeline entering Manhattan, NY from New Jersey. Thanks to the Environment TV crew for capturing this direct action on video. According to the Sane Energy Project, the “New Jersey-New York Expansion Project”…
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State Department Considers Oil by Rail in Keystone XL Decision
By Carol Linnitt A decision on the proposed northern half of the Keystone XL pipeline—under review since 2008—hinges on a final environmental review by the U.S. State Department now taking into consideration the importance oil-by-rail transport might have on growth of Alberta’s tar sands. [caption id="attachment_309741" align="alignnone" width="500"] Could oil by rail realistically provide an alternative to the…
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North Dakota Fails to Disclose Hundreds of Oil Spills to the Public
A September oil pipeline spill is calling into question North Dakota’s lack of disclosure laws, which have allowed nearly 300 spills in the last few years to go unreported in the burgeoning oil state. In 2012 and 2013, roughly 300 pipeline spills in the state went unreported, according to an Associated Press (AP) report that…