Peaceful Protest Over Tar Sands Takes a Violent Turn in Burlington, Vt. A Sunday tar sands protest in Burlington, Vermont turned violent when riot police shot protesters with pepper spray and rubber bullets.
Hundreds of protesters march down South Winooski Avenue in Burlington, Vt., during demonstrations on Sunday, July 29, 2012, as the 36th Annual Conference of New England Governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers set up at the hotel. New Report Confirms Aggressive Oil Shale, Tar Sands Development in West Poses Significant Threat to National Parks, Water Supplies, Local Economy. WASHINGTON - April 26 - After a comprehensive investigation into the impact of oil shale and tar sands development in three western states, the National Parks Conservation Association today released a report, “Avoiding a Risky Gamble with America’s National Parks,” outlining in disturbing detail the economic and environmental risks of allocating up to 2.5 million acres of public lands in Utah, Wyoming, and Colorado for commercial leases for oil shale and tar sands development, which is currently being considered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM).
This NPCA report comes as the BLM is concluding a 90-day public comment period for a new Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), revising a controversial decision made during the final weeks of the Bush administration to allow commercial-scale development of oil shale and tar sands on close to 2.5 million acres of public land.
Despite Oil Glut, ONEOK Plans Pipeline To U.S. Oil Hub. ONEOK Partners, L.P. ( OKS ), one of the largest natural gas distributors in the U.S., announced on Monday it will invest up to $1.8 billion in the construction of a pipeline connecting the Bakken oil fields in North Dakota with an oil-transport hub in Oklahoma. The 1,300-mile pipeline is expected to have the capacity to transport 200,000 barrels of oil a day, and is being planned to handle an increased need to move crude oil to market as the Dakotan oil fields step up their production. But it will also bring additional crude where there is already an oversupply, and no available pipeline capacity to move the oil to the Gulf Coast, where it is refined. The pipeline is expected to be completed by 2015, with construction possibly starting as soon as 2013, ONEOK said.
GOP Governors Take Aim at Obama, Washington. Florida Rep. Launches Keystone XL Petition. MIAMI, Fla. - U.S. Rep. Connie Mack (R-FL) launched a petition drive last week that calls for the building of the Keystone XL pipeline. The SunHerald.com writes that Mack, who is also running for Senate against current Sen.
24 Hours to Stop Keystone XL in the US Senate. Dear Common Dreamers, We have followed the fight against the Keystone XL pipeline from the beginning, and we'll continue to cover developments until this pipeline -- and the ones that are sure to follow -- have been soundly defeated.
Today, however, we join with those at the center of this struggle and urge you to play your part in fighting off the most recent attempt to ram approval for the pipeline through the US Senate. What follows is a note from our friends at 350.org, who have led this fight from the beginning and show no signs of yielding. Dear friends, When we started the fight about Keystone there were just a few of us, and no one thought we had a chance. Archons: Tar Sands destroys Ancient Forest larger than Florida. The Alberta Oil Sands is the largest energy project on the planet, lying beneath 140,200 square kilometers of northern Alberta forest, an area almost as large as the state of Florida.
This area represents 21% of Alberta and 37% of Alberta’s Boreal Forest Natural Region. Ohio Earthquakes Underscore Fracking Dangers. By Other Words By Andrew Korfhage Add yet another new concern to the growing list of reasons to oppose hyraudlic fracturing, the natural-gas extraction process known as “fracking”: Earthquakes.
That’s right, following a New Year’s Eve earthquake in Youngstown, Ohio — the town’s eleventh since D&L Energy began injecting drilling waste underground in December 2010 — state leaders put a hold on proposals for new natural-gas extraction wells within a five-mile radius. With earthquakes previously rare in this northeastern corner of Ohio, seismologists from Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) affirmed the likelihood that fracking activities had caused the quakes. Even with the moratorium, they predicted that the current damage would cause more earthquakes in the region for up to a year. “You’re pumping this fluid into a crack and the pressure of this fluid is encouraging the fault to slip,” LDEO’s John Armbuster told National Public Radio.
Tar Sands - Oil Sands - Stop the Keystone XL Pipeline. Kenny Bruno Guest Blog: They Gotta Lotta Nerve. Keystone XL: You Aren't Getting the Real Story If You Aren't Reading in Canada. Over the long Keystone XL campaign, I have continued to be astounded at how differently the pipeline---and tar sands infrastructure projects in general---are seen in the U.S. and Canada.
Chevron faces $10.6bn Brazil legal suit over oil spill. 15 December 2011Last updated at 01:23 Chevron says it got the leak under control on 13 November.
