‘Huge Victory’ for Standing Rock Sioux Tribe as Federal Court Rules DAPL Permits Violated Law
Julia Conley – “This is what the tribe has been fighting for many months. Their fearless organizing continues to change the game.”
Julia Conley – “This is what the tribe has been fighting for many months. Their fearless organizing continues to change the game.”
Olivia Rosane – A natural gas pipeline owned by Canadian company Enbridge exploded in Kentucky last Thursday, sending flames 300 feet into the sky, and killing one woman.
Eoin Higgins – “This needs to be a nation-wide story.”
Markab Algedi – Should communities be allowed to decide the fate of their environment?
Alex Pietrowski – As Dakota Access Pipeline becomes operational, new report shows excessive oil spills in North Dakota.
Steve Horn, DeSmogBlog Waking Times Over 20,600 barrels of oil fracked from the Bakken Shale has spilled from aTesoro Logistics pipeline in Tioga, North Dakota in one of the biggest onshore oil spills in recent U.S. history. Though the spill occurred on September 29, the U.S. National Response Center– tasked with responding to chemical and oil spills – did not make …
Alex Pietrowski, Staff Writer Waking Times Whether you are aware of it or not, there is a revolution brewing in the backyards of the United States and Canada. The issue is over the development of a colossal pipeline that will deliver ‘tar sands crude‘ bitumen, a form of unrefined shale oil mixed with an undisclosed …
Don Lieber, DeSmogBlog Waking Times The deadly oil train disaster in Lac Megantic, Quebec on July 5, which (as of this writing) has left 33 people dead, with 17 still missing, and contaminated over 60 miles of local drinking water sources, has initiated a curious response across the media spectrum. Some observers cite this accident as reason …
Stefanie Spear, Guest Waking Times “Enough is enough,” said Michael Bishop during our phone conversation Saturday morning after he found out TransCanada and its vendor, Michels, are planning to dig up buried pipe, part of the 485-mile southern segment of the Keystone XL pipeline, on his property in the east Texas rural community of Douglass. The representative …
Steve Horn, DeSmogBlog Waking Times TransCanada was once in the limelight and targeted for its Keystone XL pipeline project. Now, with few eyes watching, it is pushing along two key pipeline projects that would bring two respective forms of what energy geopolitics scholar Michael Klare calls “extreme energy” to lucrative export markets. Pipeline one: the southern segment of the originally proposed TransCanada Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, …