Today, January 22, the southern portion of TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline is set to become operational, although environmentalists and Texas homeowners are continuing to fight against it. TransCanada is surely celebrating now that it has a pipeline…
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Mayflower, Arkansas Resident Petitions Obama to Reject Keystone XL Pipeline
Opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline got a little more ammunition for their fight this week from a new but well-funded online campaign called We Love Our Land. The campaign’s first act: reminding people of a very recent pipeline disaster that has all but destroyed Mayflower, Arkansas, and sickened many of its residents.
China’s Oil Stockpiling Suggests Fossil Fuel Dependency Unlikely to Decline
In a rare admission of China’s strategic petroleum reserve capacity, a senior industry executive acknowledged that all four state-owned emergency oil reserve tanks – holding a total 100 million barrels [ … ]
Exxon Oil and Gas Project to Face Russian Legal Challenge Over Endangered Whales
Russian environmental groups have today launched a legal challenge against a consortium led by U.S. oil and gas giant Exxon, for threatening critically endangered whales in the far east of [ … ]