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CanadaClimate & SocietyHealth & SafetyJurisdictionsNon-Renewable EnergyPipelines/Rail TransportUnited States
Canada’s New Rail Safety Standards Won’t Prevent Spills: TSB
Canada’s new rail safety standards are inadequate to prevent oil spills, according to the Transportation Safety Board’s preliminary assessment of a February 14 derailment ... -
Climate & SocietyEnergy PoliticsJurisdictionsNon-Renewable EnergyPipelines/Rail TransportUnited States
The Keystone Veto: (At Least) Five Ways it Could End
In what iPolitics.ca described as “the day's least surprising, most expected, widely predicted, and downright pre-threatened development,” U.S. President Barack Obama vetoed a Congressional ... -
Climate & SocietyHealth & SafetyJurisdictionsNon-Renewable EnergyPipelines/Rail TransportUnited States
Pressurized Gas in Crude Oil May Have Caused West Virginia Derailment
Pressurized gas vapours will be one focus of a U.S. Department of Transportation investigation into the fiery derailment of an oil train at Mount ... -
CanadaClimate & SocietyHealth & SafetyJurisdictionsNon-Renewable EnergyPipelines/Rail TransportUnited States
‘Apocalyptic’ Derailments Continue with New-Model Tank Cars
A day after the apocalyptic images from Monday’s oil train crash at Mount Carbon, West Virginia, The Atlantic published a wrap-up of the “new, ... -
CanadaClimate & SocietyEnergy PoliticsJurisdictionsNon-Renewable EnergyPipelines/Rail TransportUnited States
Canada Contributes to Clinton Foundation While Lobbying for Keystone
Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development contributed $480,000 to the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation in 2014, at the same time ... -
CanadaClimate & SocietyHealth & SafetyJurisdictionsNon-Renewable EnergyPipelines/Rail TransportUnited StatesWater
Two Oil Train Derailments in 72 Hours in West Virginia, Northern Ontario
Local media are following two oil train derailments in less than 72 hours, one near West Virginia’s Kanawha River and the other along in ... -
CanadaClimate & SocietyEnergy PoliticsJurisdictionsNon-Renewable EnergyPipelines/Rail TransportTar Sands/Oil Sands
RCMP Report Tars Enviros as ‘Violent Anti-Petroleum Extremists’
A Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) document warning of “violent anti-petroleum extremists” is just “another example of the Harper government’s efforts to criminalize legitimate ... -
Climate & SocietyJurisdictionsLegal & RegulatoryNon-Renewable EnergyPipelines/Rail TransportUnited States
BREAKING: Nebraska Judge Halts Keystone Land Seizures
A district court judge in Nebraska has temporarily blocked TransCanada Corp. from claiming eminent domain to seize private land along the route of the ... -
CanadaClimate & SocietyJurisdictionsMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionNon-Renewable EnergyPipelines/Rail TransportShale & Fracking
Oilpatch Publication Sees Mounting Public Opposition
“Houston, you have a problem,” declares Alberta Oil Magazine, in a report on an energy literacy survey that points to mounting public opposition to ... -
Climate & SocietyFirst PeoplesForests & DeforestationHealth & SafetyJurisdictionsNon-Renewable EnergyOil & GasPipelines/Rail TransportSouth & Central AmericaWater
Indigenous Groups Block Oil Development in Peru
Indigenous groups in the Peruvian Amazon have blocked a jungle road for two weeks and seized 14 oil wells in a decades-long dispute with ... -
Air & MarineCanadaDemand & DistributionJurisdictionsNon-Renewable EnergyOil & GasPipelines/Rail TransportUnited States
Keystone Builder TransCanada to Ship Oil by Rail
TransCanada Corporation expects to begin shipping oil by rail within months as it waits for a final decision on the controversial Keystone XL pipeline. -
CanadaClimate & SocietyEnergy PoliticsEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsJurisdictionsNon-Renewable EnergyPipelines/Rail TransportTar Sands/Oil Sands
Trudeau Unveils Flexible Carbon Plan, Slags Harper on Keystone [sub req’d]
Provincial and territorial governments would pursue their own approaches to meet national greenhouse gas reduction targets under a plan unveiled last week by Liberal ... -
CanadaClimate & SocietyHealth & SafetyJurisdictionsNon-Renewable EnergyPipelines/Rail TransportTar Sands/Oil SandsWater
Canada Withholds Report Pointing to Unknown Impacts of Bitumen
The Canadian government has been keeping a tight lid on a report that says little is known about the potential toxic impacts of tar ... -
CanadaClimate & SocietyClimate Impacts & AdaptationJurisdictionsNon-Renewable EnergyPipelines/Rail TransportTar Sands/Oil SandsUnited States
EPA: Keystone Would ‘Significantly Increase’ Tar Sands/Oil Sands Emissions
The Keystone XL pipeline would “significantly increase” carbon pollution from Canada’s tar sands/oil sands, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency concludes in a letter to ... -
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‘We Will Be the Ones to Stop’ Energy East, Treaty 3 Grand Chief Vows
Treaty 3 Grand Chief Warren White attended an Ontario Energy Board consultation in Kenora last month to express his fundamental objection to TransCanada’s proposed ...
