Keystone XL owner TransCanada told investors Friday that the company was still assessing demand for the project with oil companies, increasing speculation that the controversial pipeline may not see the light of day. On an investor call, a TransCanada executive called for an “open season” on the Keystone project to attract investor bids, and said […]
By Brian Palmer “Trump administration approves Keystone XL pipeline,” the headlines blared. It was March 24, only two months after he’d taken office, when it appeared that President Trump had cleared the way for the long-contested tar sands conduit with a stroke of his pen. In reality, summarily declaring that the pipeline is in the […]
By Dave Anderson Travis Fisher, a Trump political appointee in the Department of Energy, wrote a 2015 report for the Institute for Energy Research that called clean energy policies “the single greatest emerging threat” to the nation’s electric power grid, and a greater threat to electric reliability than cyber attacks, terrorism or extreme weather. Fisher […]
As the Trump administration moves full speed ahead on boosting the oil and fossil fuel industry, opposition to increased pipeline construction is cropping up in different communities around the country. McClatchy highlights how the government and energy companies’ use of eminent domain to build pipelines through private property is turning rural voters in Trump country […]
By Joshua Axelrod After months of protests and passionate pleas for the government to recognize and analyze the threats Energy Transfer Partners’ Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) could pose to fresh water resources and numerous others, news came this week that before even fully opening, the pipeline had already leaked. A few states away, in Ohio, […]
Hundreds of people filled a Nebraska Public Service Commission hearing Wednesday to both support and defend construction of the Keystone XL pipeline in the state. Local landowners and farmers concerned about the terms of use of their land for the pipeline’s construction were a prominent voice of criticism, while labor union members, environmental activists, politicians […]
Ahead of the People’s Climate March, Senators Jeff Merkley, Bernie Sanders and Ed Markey stood beside movement leaders to introduce legislation that will completely phase out fossil fuel use by 2050. The “100 by ’50 Act” outlines a bold plan to support workers and to prioritize low-income communities while replacing oil, coal and gas with […]
Environmental groups sued the Trump administration Thursday for approving the controversial Keystone XL pipeline despite its threats to air, water, wildlife and public health. Last Friday’s pipeline approval also came without any public participation. Those failures violate the National Environmental Policy Act and are the focus of today’s lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in […]
Nearly a decade after it first applied for a presidential permit, TransCanada is getting the green light from the Trump administration for its $8 billion Keystone XL pipeline. POLITICO reported Thursday that the U.S. State Department’s undersecretary for political affairs, Tom Shannon, will approve by Monday the cross-border permit needed for the project to proceed. […]
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