pipelines

Environmental Activists Halt Mountain Valley Pipeline Construction

Environmental Activists Halt Mountain Valley Pipeline Construction

Environmental activists temporarily shut down construction of the already over-budget and behind schedule Mountain Valley Pipeline in southwestern Virginia on Monday. Organizers with the group Appalachians Against Pipelines said 10 people locked themselves to construction equipment to protect native species threatened by the controversial pipeline that would carry fracked gas — primarily methane — more […]

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    ‘Horrible and Unconscionable Betrayal’: Biden DOJ Backs Trump Tar Sands Pipeline Approval

    ‘Horrible and Unconscionable Betrayal’: Biden DOJ Backs Trump Tar Sands Pipeline Approval

    By Jessica Corbett Indigenous and environmental activists fighting against the Line 3 tar sands pipeline were outraged Thursday after the Biden administration filed a legal brief backing the federal government’s 2020 approval of the project under former President Donald Trump. Critics of the project — which Canadian energy giant Enbridge has undertaken to replace an […]

    The Keystone XL Pipeline Is Officially Dead

    The Keystone XL Pipeline Is Officially Dead

    The Keystone XL pipeline is officially canceled. TC Energy, the Canadian company behind the pipeline that would have moved oil from Alberta’s tar sands to Nebraska, confirmed Wednesday that it was giving up on the controversial project. “The Company will continue to coordinate with regulators, stakeholders and Indigenous groups to meet its environmental and regulatory […]

    Keystone XL Pipeline: What You Need to Know

    Keystone XL Pipeline: What You Need to Know

    What Is the Keystone Pipeline? The Keystone pipeline is an existing structure that carries oil from Alberta, Canada, down to Cushing, Oklahoma. The major controversy surrounds a proposed 1,200-mile extension, or shortcut, between Alberta and Nebraska. Dubbed the Keystone XL pipeline, this additional route would connect into the existing Keystone pipeline in Nebraska, which extends […]

    Activists Protest Against Line 3 as Enbridge Accelerates Pipeline Construction

    Activists Protest Against Line 3 as Enbridge Accelerates Pipeline Construction

    By Jake Johnson Thousands of people from across the nation traveled to northern Minnesota this past weekend to join Indigenous leaders in what organizers described as the “largest resistance yet” to Line 3, an Enbridge-owned tar sands pipeline whose construction has accelerated in recent days as opponents warn the project poses a threat to waterways […]

    Biden Backs Massive Alaska Drilling Project Approved Under Trump

    Biden Backs Massive Alaska Drilling Project Approved Under Trump

    By Jake Johnson The Biden administration is facing backlash from climate activists and scientists after filing a court brief Wednesday in defense of a major Trump-era Alaska drilling project that’s expected to produce up to 160,000 barrels of oil a day over a 30-year period — a plan that runs directly counter to the White […]

    Judge Allows DAPL to Keep Pumping Oil Despite Lack of Permit

    Judge Allows DAPL to Keep Pumping Oil Despite Lack of Permit

    A federal judge ruled Friday the Dakota Access Pipeline may continue pumping oil despite lacking a key federal permit while the Army Corps of Engineers conducts an extensive environmental review. The Standing Rock Sioux and other tribes challenging the pipeline, which they say is operating illegally beneath a reservoir near their reservation, failed to “demonstrate […]

    IEA’s First 1.5°C Climate Model Rejects New Fossil Fuel Extraction

    IEA’s First 1.5°C Climate Model Rejects New Fossil Fuel Extraction

    By Kelly Trout For years, we’ve seen fossil fuel companies and governments justify their fossil fuel expansion plans – from the TransMountain tar sands pipeline expansion to Arctic oil drilling to the Adani coal mine – on the backs of scenarios from the International Energy Agency (IEA). This was possible because, until today, the world’s […]